Love's Stratagem (1909)
Romantic comedy | 1 November 1909
An item in the 30 Oct 1910 Moving Picture World called Love’s Stratagem “a simple little story, well told with good acting and with that touch of humor all through that will ensure its popularity. The slight technical faults visible in [IMP’s] first film [Hiawatha] have been overcome and the photographic quality in ‘Love’s Stratagem’ is high and even all through. Altogether a very creditable piece of work.”
Along with being the second release from IMP, Love’s Strategem was the first IMP film starring Florence Lawrence, who had recently left the Biograph Company, where she anonymously starred under the direction of D. W. Griffith as “the Biograph Girl,” the closest a film actor could get to name recognition in those days, when studios prevented their talent from gaining celebrity in order to keep them working for low wages. An IMP advertisement for her fourth film, a Christmas story called Lest We Forget, in the 18 Dec 1909 Moving Picture World showed Lawrence’s photograph, along with the words “She’s an Imp!,” but did not feel it otherwise necessary to identify her. By early 1910, however, she was being referred to in press releases and notices as “Miss Lawrence.” She became better known as Florence Lawrence after she moved to the Lubin Co. in 1911.
Love’s Stratagem was also King Baggot’s first film as an actor.
For more information about IMP, see The Awakening of Bess (1909). ...
An item in the 30 Oct 1910 Moving Picture World called Love’s Stratagem “a simple little story, well told with good acting and with that touch of humor all through that will ensure its popularity. The slight technical faults visible in [IMP’s] first film [Hiawatha] have been overcome and the photographic quality in ‘Love’s Stratagem’ is high and even all through. Altogether a very creditable piece of work.”
Along with being the second release from IMP, Love’s Strategem was the first IMP film starring Florence Lawrence, who had recently left the Biograph Company, where she anonymously starred under the direction of D. W. Griffith as “the Biograph Girl,” the closest a film actor could get to name recognition in those days, when studios prevented their talent from gaining celebrity in order to keep them working for low wages. An IMP advertisement for her fourth film, a Christmas story called Lest We Forget, in the 18 Dec 1909 Moving Picture World showed Lawrence’s photograph, along with the words “She’s an Imp!,” but did not feel it otherwise necessary to identify her. By early 1910, however, she was being referred to in press releases and notices as “Miss Lawrence.” She became better known as Florence Lawrence after she moved to the Lubin Co. in 1911.
Love’s Stratagem was also King Baggot’s first film as an actor.
For more information about IMP, see The Awakening of Bess (1909).
An Independent Moving Pictures (IMP) Company advertisement in the 30 Oct 1909 Moving Picture World announced that Love’s Stratagem was its “second release,” but offered no summary of the story. Instead, IMP described the film as follows: “[I]t has Romeo and Juliet backed off the boards and gasping for wind. It’s the kind of love story that tickles both men and women folks and sends them home with the smirk that won’t come off. A thrilling plot, a corking piece of acting and some perfect ...
An Independent Moving Pictures (IMP) Company advertisement in the 30 Oct 1909 Moving Picture World announced that Love’s Stratagem was its “second release,” but offered no summary of the story. Instead, IMP described the film as follows: “[I]t has Romeo and Juliet backed off the boards and gasping for wind. It’s the kind of love story that tickles both men and women folks and sends them home with the smirk that won’t come off. A thrilling plot, a corking piece of acting and some perfect photography.”
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