Sweet Memories (film)

Sweet Memories
Directed byThomas H. Ince
Written byThomas H. Ince
Produced byCarl Laemmle
Starring
Distributed byIndependent Moving Pictures (IMP)
Release date
  • March 27, 1911 (1911-03-27)
Running time
10 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Sweet Memories (also known as Sweet Memories of Yesterday and Sweetheart Days) is a 1911 American silent short romantic drama film, written and directed by Thomas H. Ince, released by the Independent Moving Pictures Company on March 27, 1911.[1]

Plot

Polly Biblett introduces her grandmother Lettie to her boyfriend before they leave. This sparks memories of Lettie's own lifelong sweetheart, starting when they were infants and he gave her a flower, which she threw away, and kissed her. At 14, he painted her portrait and kissed her twice before they walked off with his arm around her shoulder. At 21, she still considered herself and him "children." He declared his feelings, and they danced a minuet with three other couples, a memory she treasures. When another man acted too forward with her, her sweetheart intervened and challenged him to a duel. They fenced with epees until she stopped them. The couple married and had a child, but Lettie's sweetheart died while still young. The granddaughter returns with her beau.

Cast

Production

Due to legal troubles, Carl Laemmle and IMP could not produce films in the United States at this time, so they relocated to Cuba for four months, working at the deserted Palacio del Carneado on the outskirts of Havana.[2][3] The entire Pickford family—siblings Mary, Lottie and Jack, their mother Charlotte, and Mary's husband Owen Moore—went there, and all acted in the film.[4]

References

Citations
  1. ^ "Sweet Memories (1911)". Silent Era. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
  2. ^ Drinkwater, John (1931). The Life and Adventures of Carl Laemmle (PDF). G. P. Putnam's Sons. pp. 153–154, 159. Retrieved June 22, 2025.
  3. ^ Taves 2012, pp. 16–18.
  4. ^ Taves 2012, p. 35.
Works cited
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