An Indian summer - A man and a woman standing in a garden

An elderly widower takes lodgings at a seaside boarding house owned by a widow and her daughter. Attracted to the widow, but self-conscious about his thinning hair, the widower writes a letter to inquire about a hair restoring tonic. He hides the response, and the widow thinks he is corresponding with another woman. She decides to make him jealous by framing a magazine photo of another man. One day, at the beach, the widow and widower are both marooned on a rock by the rising tide. The widow steals a look at the letter and realizes her mistake. After they are rescued, they return to the boarding house, where the she lovingly rubs the hair tonic onto his head.
J171149 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Biograph Co.; 12July1912; J171149.
W. Chrystie Miller, Kate Bruce, Mary Pickford, Mae Marsh, Harry Hyde, Jack Pickford, Kate Toncray, Frank Opperman, Bert Hendler.
Camera, G.W. Bitzer.
Photographed in California in about April, 1912.
Parts of summary from The Griffith project, v. 6.
Paper print shelf number (LC 2515) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
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Sources used: Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 158; The Griffith project, v. 6, p. 81-82, program sequence no. 416; Biograph production logs; Biograph bulletins, 1908-1912, p. 419; Christel Schmidt's The Search for a Film Legacy: Mary Pickford (1909-1933) WWW site, viewed April 20, 2015; Internet movie database WWW site, viewed December 7, 2015.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.