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Not Like Other Girls
(1912) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Harry Solter
Cast: Florence Lawrence [Flo]], Owen Moore [Owen Strong, Flo’s beau]
Victor Film Company production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Released 26 July 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Flo is not like the other girls at the Ferncliffe Seminary, in that she does not like the attention of the young men at the nearby college, and their efforts to win her affection prove disastrous to their ruffled spirits. Flo has a guardian, John Strong, who has made some unfortunate speculations and to recover his losses uses his ward’s fortune, and in the end loses all. He writes to his son and tells him the truth and the only way to keep himself out of jail is a marriage between his son, Owen, and Flo, his ward. Owen arrives home and after persuasion on his father’s part, agrees to help him. Flo is invited down for a visit, she arrives and Owen is urged on by his father to try and win her. His first effort is to take for a ride in his auto. On the way she has him stop to pick some wild flowers. While he is plucking the flowers, she starts the car, leaving him by the roadside. The car proves balky and finally stalls, and Flo is unable to start. Owen catches up to her, politely offers her the flowers, makes a few adjustments on the car and proceeds. They arrive home and Flo returns the compliment by presenting to him the bouquet, for his excellent driving, and runs off laughingly. Matters run on and Owen becomes greatly in love with the hoydenish girl, but does not progress very rapidly in his suit. The father also loses heart and is distracted nigh unto death. Finally Owen gives up after Flo has upset him in a canoe and tells his father that he hasn’t “a ghost of a chance” to win her. The blow is too much for his father’s weakened heart and death ends his troubles forever. Owen enters and finds his father dead, his heart is broken, as the father’s misdeeds now fall on the son. Flo begins to soften at Owen’s sadness and when Owen shows the letter written him by his father, telling him of his misdeeds, Flo is greatly shocked. Owen tries to make reparation by deeding to her the house left him by his mother, leaving her a note to that effect, but when Flo finds him gone, she will have none of his gifts, and taking a short cut across the field, she heads off the auto in which Owen is in and orders the chauffeur to return home. There she upbraids Owen, as only a woman can, orders him to stay and tells him that she hates him for making her love him. Owen does not go away.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 4 May 2025.
References: Website-IMDb.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc; DVD.
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