A Lady and Her Maid

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Channel: Eye Filmmuseum · 2016 · Film & Animation

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This film is from the Eye Filmmuseum collection. Many films in this collection contain outdated information or offensive language/images. While this is problematic, we do not wish to erase these films from (film) history. As a film museum, we show films as much as possible in their original form.   

 Director: Bert Angeles | Production Country: United States | Year: 1913 | Production Company: Vitagraph Company of America (United States) | FLM37052 | Film from the collection of Eye (Amsterdam) - https://www.eyefilm.nl/  

A short comedy about the pension owner Orphelia and her maid Belinda. When Orphelia is rejected by guest named Billy, the two women decide to improve their appearances: at a beauty salon, at the dentist, and at the hairstylist. They then suddenly get lots of attention from the boarders at the pension. 

Cast: Lillian Walker, Kate Price, Norma Talmadge, Florence Radinoff, James Morrison, Flora Finch.

This film is from the Jean Desmet Collection at Eye. 
Jean Desmet (1875-1956) was one of the leading cinema operators and film distributors in the Netherlands from 1907 – 1916. The Jean Desmet Collection at Eye has more than 900 films, and is included UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.
https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/collection/collections/film/film-files/de-jaren-twintig-en-dertig/file-desmet

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