Key Films of 1916

Fatty and Mabel Adrift, the best of the duo's outings, illustrated their dissatisfaction with Mack Sennett's techniques.

Director Cecil B. DeMille shot The Cheat during the day and The Golden Chance by night.

His Picture in the Papers was written by twenty-six-year-old Anita Loos, a precocious talent who sold her first scenario to Lubin while barely out of her teens.

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a retrograde step for DeMille after producing the classics The Cheat and The Golden Chance

Pickford’s golden locks were her most recognisable feature, and she made a great deal out of having her brother cut them off... surely anticipating the gasps of horror the deed would wrench from her fans.