old movie where the wife cuts and sells her hair to pay for a gift for her husband

A musical version of O. Henry's famous Christmas story.

A romantic tale of a young married couple who have little money to buy each other Christmas presents. And so she cuts off and sells her beautiful hair.

After his wife forces him to the barber's, a fragile thirty-something reassess both his hair and his marriage.

A man is hired by a woman as a gift for her husband.

On the eve of their 20th wedding anniversary, a wife finds out her husband has a lover who wants to buy him from her. The wife agrees.

Oh, the woe of simultaneous birthdays, as were Mr. and Mrs. Hardlucks', and both being of a generous nature, were seized with an insatiable desire to make on this anniversary of their nativity suitable gifts, each to the other, Hardluck has a watch, but no fob. Mrs. Hardluck has a wealth of hair, but no decorative comb for her hair. What is worse, finances are low, or rather exhausted. An idea strikes Hardluck. He will pawn his watch and buy a comb; thus surprising her. Mrs. Hardluck's mind is also illumined by a bright thought. She will sacrifice her hair, and with the money buy him a fob. This they do, of course, unknown to each other. Well, here's the situation: He had no fob for his watch, and she no comb for her hair; but now he has no watch for his fob, and she has no hair for her comb. Mack Sennett appears as an extra in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

A man is hired by a woman as a gift for her husband.

This is a story about Jim, an apprentice magician, and Della, his wife, on Christmas Day. Della has her beautiful and long hair cut off and sells it in order to buy him a present that is a chain made for his gold watch. In the evening, Jim reaches home, but is stunned to see her look so different.

“The Bride Price” follows the story of a barely educated spare parts dealer who cuts off his wife’s family from their lives after he was made to pay through his nose for her.

When his wife falls sick, a well-intended dad braves the fires and goes where no man has gone before - the hairmarket - to get his daughter's hair braided before school begins.