La barbe de Théodore
Weitere Titel: Der verlockende Bart (D, Ö)/ Theodore's Beard (UK)/ Sam's Artistic Beard (USA) - Länge: 125m - s/w - Interpret: Max Linder {Théodore} - Produktion: Pathé Frères - Katalog-Nr.: 2988/Aug.09 - Auff.: 17. Juli 1909 (Innsbruck/Theater-Kinematograph) — Weitere Auff.: 2.10.09 (Herne/Kinematoscope)
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Eine an drolligen Szenen reiche tragikomische Geschichte mit vielen humoristischen Zwischenfällen. (Programmtext, Kinematoscope-Zeitung, 2.10.1909)
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The lamentable history of Theodore's Beard should provide merriment for many audiences. This picture tells of a valet who is possessed of a long and silky beard which, apparently, renders him quite irresistible to all the female members of the household, from his mistress downwards, who all pay tribute to the hair with many caresses. This fascinating hirsute appendage rather interrupts his labours, however, and he is discovered by his master in the joint embraces of the cook and the housemaid. He is ordered to shave, and, in agony and despair, the hero removes the luxuriant growth in the privacy of his bedroom. The next time he meets his mistress he thinks to continue their amorous passages, but, without his beard, she will have none of him, and he is angrily rejected, the picture closing with the scorn of the kitchen, and the final undoing of Theodore. (The Bioscope, 5.8.1909)
Anmerkung: Hinweise, dass Linder in „La barbe de Théodore [1909]“ mitgewirkt haben könnte, finden sich in einer englischen Fachzeitschrift. Als Linder Anfang September 1909 zum ersten Mal namentlich identifiziert wird, erinnerte sich THE BIOSCOPE: „wir glauben, dass er verantwortlich war für die zahlreichen Abenteuer von Theodore, die die Herren Pathé von Zeit zu Zeit produziert haben.“ (Kritik für: „A young Lady Killer/Le petit jeune homme“ in The Bioscope, 2.9.09) ― [Note: When THE BIOSCOPE identified the actor in “Le petit jeune homme” as Max Linder, they wrote: “He was responsible, we believe, for the numerous adventures of Theodore which Messrs. Pathe have from time to time produced.” (The Bioscope, Sept. 2nd 1909). The week before, they had written about «Amoureux de la femme a barbe [1909]»: “We have here yet another adventure of the sprightly Theodore.” And by comparing it to the preceding film («La barbe à Théodore»): “This time it is he who succumbs to the fascinating hair,…” (The Bioscope, Aug. 26th 1909), they apparently regarded it as a sequel.]
Weitere Filmbeschreibungen/Kritiken:
Although this comedy subject fails to realize all of the possibilities presented by the humor of the plot, it nevertheless produces a number of good laughs. A young bewhiskered chap hires out as servant in the home of his sweetheart, where his beard wins the admiration of the maid and cook as well as the young mistress of the house. But papa orders the youth to shave off the beard, and with a smooth face he finds that none of the females will tolerate him. The comedy business suffers in the picture from clownish overacting. It is a subject that would have been more effective if performed as serious reality. (The New York Dramatic Mirror, Nov. 21st 1909)