The New York Hat (1912)

A sweet if insubstantial little film. Mary Pickford plays the daughter of a stern father (Charles Hill Mailes) and dying mother (Kate Bruce). The mother writes to a pastor (Lionel Barrymore) and asks him to finally get her a treat which she had always been denied by her father. He buys her a fancy hat!

Unfortunately the village begins to gossip, not knowing of the letter, and Mary's father destroys the hat in a rage...

Well it's all very straight forward but nicely produced. Mary Pickford portrays her role perfectly.