Bobbie of the Ballet is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse and starring Lon Chaney, Louise Lovely, Gretchen Lederer and Jay Belasco.
[2] Actress Louise Emmons later co-starred in several other Chaney films, including The Blackbird, The Unknown and West of Zanzibar.
Lon Chaney plays "Hook" Hoover, a sneak thief who lives in the tenements, and offers to help Bobbie at one point by giving her money he obtained from a crime he committed.
Lon Chaney, as the reformed criminal, convinced with his work, but the assembling of the film and the scenario gave him all the worst of it."
--- Wid's Film Daily[5] "There is a wholesomeness about the way in which the production has been staged, and there is never a moment when the moral balance is lost sight of...The quaint scenes in which Hook Hoover...appears, will please old and young."