{{short description|1915 film by William C. Dowlan}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{infobox film | name = The College Orphan | image = The College Orphan (1915) advertisement - 1.png | caption = Advertisement for ''the College Orphan'' in ''the Moving Picture World'' October 2, 1915 issue (pg. 4-5) | director = William C. Dowlan | producer = | writer = Louis V. Jefferson | story = | screenplay = | based_on = | starring = Carter DeHaven<br>Flora Parker DeHaven<br>Miss Edwards | music = | cinematography = King Gray | editing = | studio = Universal Film Manufacturing Company | distributor = Universal Film Manufacturing Company | released = {{film date|1915|10|25}} | runtime = 6 reels | country = United States | language = Silent film<br>(English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }} '''''The College Orphan''''' (also known as '''''At Watt College''''') is a 1915 American silent comedy-drama film directed by William C. Dowlan and starring Carter DeHaven, Flora Parker DeHaven, and Miss Edwards. The film was released by Universal Film Manufacturing Company on October 25, 1915.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/13749-THE-COLLEGEORPHAN|title=The College Orphan|work=afi.com|access-date=February 27, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL//data/C/CollegeOrphan1915.html|title=The College Orphan|work=silentera.com|access-date=February 27, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/494414/the-college-orphan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420192615/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/494414/the-college-orphan|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 20, 2021|title=The College Orphan|work=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=February 27, 2025}}</ref>
==Plot== {{no plot|date=February 2025}}
==Cast== *Carter DeHaven as Jack Bennett Jr. *Flora Parker DeHaven as Daisy Woods *Miss Edwards as Mrs. Bennett *Louis Morrison as Mr. Bennett *Gloria Fonda as Irma Brentwood *Val Paul as Bruce Howard *Lule Warrenton as Mrs. Blanding *William Canfield as Mr. Brentwood *Doc Crane as Socrates
==Reception== ''Moving Picture World'' gave the film a positive review, praising performances of the DeHaven couple while criticizing some of scenes, claiming they were questioning the "probability of the action of the students in trying to soften the blows of masculine football by substituting the antics of sissies" and that were known in previous occasions to make the "unskillful laugh".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Blaisdell |first=George |url=https://archive.org/details/moviwor26chal/page/628 |title="The College Orphan" Six-Part Broadway Universal Feature Introduces the De Havens, and They Should Be Popular |date= |publisher= |work=Moving Picture World |publication-date=October 23, 1915 |pages=628}}</ref>
==Preservation== It is unknown whether the film survives as none of copies were able to locate, likely presumed lost.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3686/default.html |title=American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: ''The College Orphan'' |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=February 27, 2025 |archive-date=March 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321020257/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.4363/default.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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==External links== *{{IMDb title|0005105}}
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