Based on the old adage, "A woman's crowning glory is her hair", Her Crowning Glory is a romantic situation comedy featuring one of film's early comedic stars, John Bunny, who plays a rich widowed husband who hires a governess to help bring up his motherless young daughter. To the dismay of the daughter and his child's nurse, he falls in love with the otherwise unlikable long-haired governess, played by the scarecrow-like Flora Finch. The film's gentle comedic elements are found in the pranks that the nurse and daughter employ to break up the happy loving couple.
Review of Her Crowning Glory
Her Crowning Glory
(1911)
Big hats were indeed a nuisance in early cinemas, especially since a woman's hair was her crowning glory!
26 March 2017
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