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poster The Worldly Madonna

The Worldly Madonna

Ms. Young portrays two roles. As Janet, a convent novitiate, she agrees to exchange places with her sister, Lucy, a cabaret dancer, who believes she has killed a man.

poster Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley

1mn - Documentary, Western

Annie Oakley was probably the most famous marksman/woman in the world when this short clip was produced in Edison's Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey. Barely five feet tall, Annie was always a…

poster Mata Hari: The Naked Spy

Mata Hari: The Naked Spy

78mn - Documentary

A century after her execution as a German spy, newly discovered documents challenge everything we thought we knew about Mata Hari, revealing the complex truth behind the legendary exotic dancer. Through i…

poster An Expensive Visit

An Expensive Visit

At college, Jack is spending his dad's money and not studying. When dad comes for a visit, Jack gets one of his friends to dress as a woman and flirt with his father. Another friend pretends to be the jea…

poster Hannie Caulder

Hannie Caulder

82mn - Drama, Western, Crime

Hannie enlists the aid of bounty hunter Tom Price to teach her how to be a gunfighter so she can hunt down the 3 men who killed her husband and raped her.

poster A Fight for Jenny

A Fight for Jenny

95mn - Drama, Short

When Kelsey remarries, her struggle to get custody of her daughter from her first marriage is complicated by her current husband being black.

poster Loïe Fuller

Loïe Fuller

2mn - Fantasy, Documentary

This is another short, simple dance number. It’s quite stunning and unusual though with a bat turning into a woman who proceeds to give us a skirt dance before disappearing into thin air. The dance is mes…

poster Alice Chops the Suey

Alice Chops the Suey

7mn - Animation

Alice is kidnapped by Chinese Gangsters and brought to Chinatown. Her cat tries (successfully) to rescue her, but then they're hunted by a bunch of angry Chinese Triad members.

poster Annabelle Serpentine Dance

Annabelle Serpentine Dance

1mn - Documentary

In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of the flowing cloth. She moves to her right and left acr…

Untamed

Raised wild in the South American jungle, oil heiress Bingo Dowling storms into Manhattan society determined to win the heart of Andy McAllister. But when his pride refuses her fortune, this untamed woman…

poster The Average Woman

The Average Woman

48mn - Drama, Romance

Reporter Jimmy Munroe is writing an article on "the average woman". He meets Sally Whipple in the library and chooses her as a likely subject, following her around to gather material for his article, and …

poster Lena and the Geese

Lena and the Geese

20mn - Drama, Comedy, Family

A first-born baby girl is sent away and placed in the care of Gretchen, a trusted peasant woman, who is the widowed mother of a child about the same age. The two children grow up as sisters. Later, upon h…

poster Miss Lulu Bett

Miss Lulu Bett

71mn - Comedy, Drama

Lois Wilson (as Lulu) is the spinsterish member of the Deacon family: "The family beast of burden, whose timid soul has failed to break the bonds of family servitude." Her brother-in-law is patriarchal Th…

poster A Girl Is A Gun

A Girl Is A Gun

When three women mysteriously vanish from Los Angeles, the city erupts in panic as police hunt for a suspected serial killer. But Santa Fe, Nenuphar, and Vegas haven't been murdered—they've gone undergrou…

poster Little Angel

Little Angel

Engelein is a comedy of deliberately mistaken identity. If Jesta, a 17-year-old, can play the part of a 12-year-old, her family will gain a large inheritance from a rich uncle from Chicago. Her unruly “p…

poster The Planters

The Planters

Awkward telemarketer Martha Plant is down and out — sucking at her job and grieving her recently deceased parents. When she finds unlikely friendship in Sadie Mayflower, a bubbly vagrant with multiple per…

Ramona

17mn - Drama, Romance, Western

Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian Alessandro. When Ramona is denied permission to marry Alessandro, the lovers elope, only to fi…

poster The Gibson Goddess

The Gibson Goddess

A pack of admirers won't leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. She appears in a leg-revealing swimsuit, but the stockings have been stuffed with cotton to make her limb…

poster Jewish Prudence

Jewish Prudence

Papa Gimplewart, father to three children is unimpressed by the young lawyer who wants to marry his daughter.

poster Beatrice Fairfax

Beatrice Fairfax

300mn - Action, Adventure

Beatrice Fairfax, the original advice-to-the-lovelorn reporter and her friend and not-so-secret admirer Jimmy Barton investigate calls for help and escape exotic perils and dangers. Episodes include excit…

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