The Mating (1915)
Drama | 22 July 1915
Director:
Raymond B. WestWriter:
C. Gardner SullivanProduction Company:
New York Motion Picture Corp.; Kay-BeeThe 24 Apr 1915 Motion Picture News announced the upcoming production as offering “an entirely new and ‘different role’” to thirty-year-old actress Bessie Barriscale, who was cast as a teenaged college freshman. Supervisor Thomas H. Ince was credited with cowriting the screenplay, along with scenarist C. Gardner Sullivan. Articles in the 15 May 1915, 22 May 1915, and 29 May 1915 Motion Picture News noted that members of the University of Southern California football team appeared as background actors, dormitory sets were modeled after those at Vassar College, and location filming took place at a peculiarly designed church in Ontario, CA. According to the 5 Jun 1915 Motion Picture News, production was delayed after several “motion picture dogs” gained entrance to Barriscale’s dressing room and destroyed one of her gowns. The 21 Oct 1916 issue included Nona Thomas among the cast.
The Mating opened on 22 Jul 1915. Although it received only a lukewarm review in the 16 Jul 1915 Var, the 24 Jul 1915 Motion Picture News was considerably more enthusiastic, and the 30a Oct 1915 Moving Picture World recounted a showing months earlier after which the audience reacted with spontaneous applause. ...
The 24 Apr 1915 Motion Picture News announced the upcoming production as offering “an entirely new and ‘different role’” to thirty-year-old actress Bessie Barriscale, who was cast as a teenaged college freshman. Supervisor Thomas H. Ince was credited with cowriting the screenplay, along with scenarist C. Gardner Sullivan. Articles in the 15 May 1915, 22 May 1915, and 29 May 1915 Motion Picture News noted that members of the University of Southern California football team appeared as background actors, dormitory sets were modeled after those at Vassar College, and location filming took place at a peculiarly designed church in Ontario, CA. According to the 5 Jun 1915 Motion Picture News, production was delayed after several “motion picture dogs” gained entrance to Barriscale’s dressing room and destroyed one of her gowns. The 21 Oct 1916 issue included Nona Thomas among the cast.
The Mating opened on 22 Jul 1915. Although it received only a lukewarm review in the 16 Jul 1915 Var, the 24 Jul 1915 Motion Picture News was considerably more enthusiastic, and the 30a Oct 1915 Moving Picture World recounted a showing months earlier after which the audience reacted with spontaneous applause.
Doris Willard, the daughter of a rural minister, persuades her father to send her to college. However, when she arrives with a suitcase full of provincial fashions, she quickly becomes the object of her classmates' taunts. The depressed Doris writes a love letter to herself, signing it "'Bullet' Dick Ames," the name of a popular college football star. She intentionally drops the letter on the dormitory porch where it is discovered by Daisy Arnold, the leader of the campus "Beauty Squad." The suspicious Daisy invites Dick and his sister, Eleanor, to spend Thanksgiving at the school. Her hopes of humiliating Doris are foiled when Dick, who is aware of the letter, maintains the ruse. Against Doris's wishes, Dick persists in the deceptions until they fall in love with each other. Doris refuses Dick’s marriage proposal, fearing it to be an act of pity. Eleanor intercedes on her brother’s behalf, and Doris finally ...
Doris Willard, the daughter of a rural minister, persuades her father to send her to college. However, when she arrives with a suitcase full of provincial fashions, she quickly becomes the object of her classmates' taunts. The depressed Doris writes a love letter to herself, signing it "'Bullet' Dick Ames," the name of a popular college football star. She intentionally drops the letter on the dormitory porch where it is discovered by Daisy Arnold, the leader of the campus "Beauty Squad." The suspicious Daisy invites Dick and his sister, Eleanor, to spend Thanksgiving at the school. Her hopes of humiliating Doris are foiled when Dick, who is aware of the letter, maintains the ruse. Against Doris's wishes, Dick persists in the deceptions until they fall in love with each other. Doris refuses Dick’s marriage proposal, fearing it to be an act of pity. Eleanor intercedes on her brother’s behalf, and Doris finally accepts.
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