She Was the Other

She Was the Other was written by Epes W. Sargent and produced and directed by Arthur Hotaling, who was the general supervisor of the Jacksonville, Florida unit of the Lubin Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia.^[2] It was a short split-reel comedy, lasting approximately five minutes and sharing a single reel of film with Cheap Transportation, an unrelated comedy starring, written and directed by Frank C. Griffin.^[1] The films were released by the General Film Company on November 17, 1914, and are among a group of short comedies made by the Lubin company in 1914 and early 1915 that include the earliest screen appearances of Oliver Hardy.^[2] Rob Stone points out that this is the first film in which Hardy played the role of a woman (as opposed to a man disguised as a woman).^[2] A promotional still in the Lubin Bulletin shows Hardy dressed in an oversized checked cotton dress with a floral bonnet.^[1]

The film received generally favorable reviews in the trade papers. Moving Picture World described it as "interesting and amusing" and "a comedy that is quite original in conception",^[3] while Motion Picture News called it "a fairly amusing story".^[4] The Bioscope singled out Hardy's performance for special notice, describing the film as "an amusing little tale" and writing that "Babe Hardy is irresistably funny as Cutey, the fat sister of the station super".^[2] The critic for the New York Dramatic Mirror was less impressed: "E. W. Sargent probably wrote this burlesque on the spur of the moment to keep Lubin's knockabout police force busy. It suggests hasty preparation on the poart of both scenario writer and director."^[2]

• List of American films of 1914
• Oliver Hardy filmography

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