Plot.

Mrs. Leffingwell runs after the last of her departing party guests to return a forgotten muff. While she's out a burglar enters the apartment and opens the safe. He can't make his getaway before she returns, and tries to bluff his way out by saying he entered the wrong apartment. She sees the open safe and secretly tells the butler to get the police.

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Cast & Crew.

Marion Leonard

Mrs. Leffingwell

Arthur V. Johnson

The Gentleman Burglar

Anita Hendrie

Visitor

D.W. Griffith

Director / Writer

Jeanie Macpherson

Maid (unconfirmed)

Owen Moore

Footman

Frank Powell

Visitor

Mack Sennett

Policeman

Billy Bitzer

Cinematographer

Details.

Release Date
April 8, 1909

Status
Released

Last updated: 2025-02-14

Wiki.

A Rude Hostess is a 1909 American silent film comedy written and directed by D. W. Griffith, produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in New York City, and co-starring Marion Leonard and Arthur V. Johnson. At its release in April 1909, the short was distributed to theaters on a "split reel", which was a single reel that accommodated more than one film. A Rude Hostess shared its reel with another Biograph comedy short directed by Griffith, Schneider's Anti-Noise Crusade. Original contact-print paper rolls of both motion pictures, as well as projectable safety-stock copies of the films, are preserved in the Library of Congress.