klausming 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!

[7/10 · 26 March 2017]

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.