A sixteen-year-old schoolgirl named Anita Loos mailed Biograph a scenario and received $15 (some histories say $25) and an offer to write more. The script became The New York Hat and she became, well, Anita Loos. Mary Pickford, in her last film for D.W. Griffith, plays a motherless girl who is given a hat by a kindly minister, Lionel Barrymore, which sets tongues wagging among the local "uplifters." "Even today, under the mawkish sentiment, the period morality and clothes, this little film that (Pickford) made with 'the Master' remains singuarly fresh and moving." (MOMA Film Library)