{{short description|1920 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Flying Pat | image = File:Flying Pat poster.jpg | caption = Film Poster | director = [[F. Richard Jones]] | writer = Virginia Philley Withey (story)<br>[[Harry Carr]] (scenario)<br>[[F. Richard Jones]] | starring = [[Dorothy Gish]]<br>[[James Rennie (actor)|James Rennie]] | music = | cinematography = Fred Chaston | editing = | studio = New Art Film Co. | distributor = [[Paramount Pictures]] | released = {{film date|1920|11|11}} | runtime = 50 minutes; 5 [[reel#Motion picture terminology|reels]] | country = United States | language = Silent (English [[intertitle]]s) | budget = | gross = }} '''''Flying Pat''''' is a 1920 American silent comedy film starring [[Dorothy Gish]] and her then husband [[James Rennie (actor)|James Rennie]] that was directed by [[F. Richard Jones]]. It was produced by [[Famous Players–Lasky]] and distributed by [[Paramount Pictures]].<ref>[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=15733 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: ''Flying Pat'']</ref>
The film is preserved in the [[Cinémathèque française]].<ref>[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.476/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''Flying Pat'']</ref> [[File:Flying Pat (1920) - 2.jpg|right|thumb|Still with Dorothy Gish and James Rennie.]]
==Plot== As described in a [[film magazine]],<ref>{{cite journal |title=Reviews: ''Flying Pat'' |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=11 |issue=23 |page=87 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=December 4, 1920 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald11exhi_1}}</ref> young bride Patricia Van Nuys (Gish), whose husband Robert (Rennie) desires that she carve out a career rather than bother her pretty head about domestic chores, is given lessons in flying by William Endicott (Wallace). Her experiences as a pupil land them both on the ground in a nose dive wreck from which they miraculously emerge and seek refreshment in a nearby [[Roadhouse (facility)|roadhouse]]. Her husband arrives on the scene just as her instructor is proving to be an affectionate and entertaining companion. His ire drives her out of the home and on the night train to Albany. Rid of her money in a [[poker]] game, she returns and meets an emergency by posing as a cook in her own home. One complication leads to another until they terminate in the reconciliation of the couple.
==Cast== {{Cast listing| *[[Dorothy Gish]] as Patricia Van Nuys *[[James Rennie (actor)|James Rennie]] as Robert Van Nuys *[[Morgan Wallace]] as William Endicott *Harold Vizard as Butler *[[Porter Strong]] as Reporter *Tom Blake as Policeman *[[Kate Bruce]] as Old Lady *[[Dorothy Walters]] as Cook *Miss Waters as Housemaid }}
==Release== ''Flying Pat'' was released in the United States on November 11, 1920. It was still circulating in 1922, screening at the Empress Theatre in [[Mangum, Oklahoma]], on February 24 and 25,<ref>''[http://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc283973/ The Mangum Star]'' Volume 34. Number 37. Edition 1. February 23, 1922. p 5. Retrieved January 31, 2016</ref> and at the Royal Theatre in [[Guymon, Oklahoma|Guymon]] on Saturday, March 4.<ref>[http://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc273849/m1/1/?q=%22dorothy%20gish%22%20%22Flying%20Pat%22 Back To The Kitchen In "Flying Pat"]. ''[[Guymon, Oklahoma|The Guymon Herald]]''. Volume 32. Number 1. Edition 1. March 2, 1922. p 1. Retrieved January 31, 2016</ref> A week after that, it played Tulsa.<ref>''[http://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc78038/m1/13/ Morning Tulsa Daily World]''. Volume 16. Number 169. Edition 1. March 18, 1922. p 13. Retrieved January 31, 2016</ref>
The film first screened in [[New Zealand]] at the Paramount and Artcraft Theatres on June 3, 1921, on a double bill with the dramatic feature ''[[The Inside of the Cup (film)|The Inside of the Cup]]''.<ref>[http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19210602.1.3&e=-------10--1----0%22dorothy+gish%22+%22flying+pat%22-- "The Inside of the Cup"]. ''[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)|Evening Post]]''. Volume CI. Issue 130, June 2, 1921. p 3. Retrieved January 31, 2016</ref> The film played at those theaters through at least June 8.<ref>[http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19210608.2.5.13&srpos=3&e=-------10--1----0%22dorothy+gish%22+%22flying+pat%22-- Paramount and Artcraft]. ''[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)|Evening Post]]''. Volume CI. Issue 135. June 8, 1921. p 3. Retrieved January 31, 2016</ref> It was second feature to [[Cecil B. deMille]]'s ''[[Something to Think About]]'' when it screened at Wellington's Princess Theatre on December 9 of that year.<ref>[http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19211208.2.7.1&srpos=9&e=-------10--1----0%22dorothy+gish%22+%22flying+pat%22-- Advertisements]. ''[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)|Evening Post]]''. Volume CII. Issue 138. December 8, 1921. p 2. Retrieved January 31, 2016</ref> It premiered in [[Whangārei]] the following month.<ref>[http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NA19220103.2.56.1&srpos=7&e=-------10--1----0%22dorothy+gish%22+%22flying+pat%22-- Amusements]. ''[[Northern Advocate]]''. January 3, 1922. p 8. Retrieved January 31, 2016</ref>
==Note== In her 1969 autobiography, ''The Movies Mr. Griffith and Me'', [[Lillian Gish]] includes a still from this movie identifying [[James Rennie (actor)|James Rennie]], [[Dorothy Gish]], and an unknown player. The unknown player is actor [[Morgan Wallace]].
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==External links== {{Commons category|Flying Pat}} *{{IMDb title|0195717}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053451/http://images.moviepostershop.com/flying-pat-movie-poster-1920-1020199078.jpg Lobby poster](WaybackMachine)
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