The Test

The Test

6 mins | Dec. 16, 1909

Harry, preparing to leave on a business trip, tells Bessie that her photograph will always be with him. To test his sincerity she removes the photo from his bill case, and when he writes her that he is looking at her picture, she writes back that she knows otherwise. Realizing that he has been found out, Harry obtains his mother's photograph of Bessie, and upon his return home convinces her that he had it all along.

The Test

6 mins | Dec. 16, 1909

The Test
Harry, preparing to leave on a business trip, tells Bessie that her photograph will always be with him. To test his sincerity she removes the photo from his bill case, and when he writes her that he is looking at her picture, she writes back that she knows otherwise. Realizing that he has been found out, Harry obtains his mother's photograph of Bessie, and upon his return home convinces her that he had it all along.
Producers American Mutoscope & Biograph
Original title The Test
Directors D.W. Griffith
Writers

Cast

Billy Quirk

as Harry

Mary Pickford

as Bessie

Marion Leonard

as At the Hotel

Arthur V. Johnson

as At the Hotel