TRUE HEART SUSIE
starring Lillian Gish, Bobby Harron and Clarine Seymour
MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE
August, 1919
We haven't had the heart to discuss Mr. Griffith's "True Heart Susie," (Paramount), immediately after his "Broken Blossoms." For they are a thousand miles apart. "True Heart Susie" is of the Hoosier caliber of "A Romance of Happy Valley." It revolves around a young minister who fails to see the lovelight in simple Susie's eyes, marries a fickle little milliner, discovers her semi-infidelity after her sudden death, and who turns finally to Susie, who has waited thru it all. To us, "True Heart Susie" hasn't one-tenth of the real country and small-town atmosphere of "The Turn in the Road." Lillian Gish is quaint as Susie, but darned if we can like her weird country attire. We've lived in the country but never glimpsed anything as exaggerated as Susie's clothes in these mail order days. Clarine Seymour again reveals surprising promise as the cutie milliner who loves jazz better than her fireside. And, considering the Willie Jenkins of Bobby Harron, we can't entirely blame her.
TRUE HEART SUSIE
starring Lillian Gish, Bobby Harron and Clarine Seymour
PHOTOPLAY
September, 1919
The quaint tale of a quaint little country girl who waited, and waited, and waited . . . and finallly got him when he became a sod-widower. This piece is worth seeing solely because of Mr. Griffith's chaacteristic lacery of character and fine humanities.
TRUE HEART SUSIE
starring Lillian Gish, Bobby Harron and Clarine Seymour
MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC
September, 1919
We haven't the heart to discuss Mr. Griffith's "True Heart Susie" immediately after his "Broken Blossoms." For they are a thousand miles apart. "True Heart Susie" is of the Hoosier caliber of "A Romance of Happy Valley." It revolves around a young minister who fails to see the lovelight in simple Susie's eyes, marries a fickle little milliner, discovers her semi-infidelity afer her sudden death, and who turns finallly to Susie, who has waited thru it all. To us, "True Heart Susue" hasn't one-tenth of the real country and small-town atmosphere of "The Turn in the Road." Lillian Gish is quaint as Susie, but darned if we can like her weird country attire. We've lived in the country but never glimpsed anything as exaggerated as Susie's clothes in these mail-order days. Clarine Seymour again reveals surprising promise as the cutie milliner who loves jazz better han her fireside. And, considering the Willie Jenkins of Bobby Harron, we can't entirely blame her.
For more information, see "True Heart Susie" as our "Feature of the Month"