Women Portrayed In Early Films

Stereotypes of women as both demure and agressive. A woman and man court on a park bench. The man gets down on bended knee and kisses her hand. In another shot, a man kisses a shy woman on the forehead. Mary Pickford, dressed as a farmgirl, gets angry when a man kisses her--twice! Dressed as a little girl, she tweaks the nose of a large man. Later, people, including a woman wheeling a baby carriage, exit a movie theater.