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The Heir to the Hoorah

1916 film by William C. deMille

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ16995100 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Heir to the Hoorah is a surviving 1916 silent film produced by Jesse Lasky and released through Paramount Pictures. It was directed by William C. deMille.

A print survives in the Library of Congress.

Cast

Thomas Meighan - Joe Lacy

Anita King - Geraldine Kent

Edythe Chapman - Mrs. Kent

Horace B. Carpenter - Bud Young

Charles Ogle - Bill Ferguson

Ernest Joy - Mr. Marshall

Joane Woodbury - Mrs.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “The Heir to the Hoorah” as 1916 film by William C. deMille. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Heir, Hoorah and film.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1916—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1916-10-26. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Heir, Hoorah and film providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “The Heir to the Hoorah”, the useful work is to connect “1916 film by William C. deMille” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16995100. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1916.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Heir to the Hoorah”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Heir to the Hoorah primary sources, The Heir to the Hoorah archive and Heir research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “The Heir to the Hoorah”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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This entry incorporates text from “The Heir to the Hoorah” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.