Those Awful Hats is a 1909 American short comedy film directed by D.W. Griffith and starring Mack Sennett. It takes place in a small, crowded movie theatre, where the patrons are perpetually distracted by people - primarily women - wearing large, ostentatious hats that obstruct everyone else's views of the screen. Slapstick disorder ensues. The film ends with a title card reading, "Ladies Will Please Remove Their Hats." A print of the film survives in the film archive of the Library of Congress.^[2]

Cast

• Mack Sennett as Man in checkered jacket
• Flora Finch as Woman with largest hat
• Linda Arvidson as Theatre Audience
• John R. Cumpson as Theatre Audience
• George Gebhardt as Theatre Audience
• Robert Harron as Theatre Audience
• Anita Hendrie as Theatre Audience
• Charles Inslee as Theatre Audience
• Arthur V. Johnson as Theatre Audience
• Florence Lawrence as Theatre Audience
• Gertrude Robinson as Theatre Audience
• Dorothy West as Theatre Audience