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The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan

The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan (1914)

January. 31,1914

| Comedy

An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is likewise kidnapped and rescues the young woman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011 in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation New Zealand Project.

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Cast

Yale Boss as Daddy, the office boy

[1912] Revenge Is Sweet [1910] Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Mary Fuller as Dolly Desmond

[1911] A Modern Cinderella [1910] Uncle Tom's Cabin [1910] Frankenstein [1909] Hansel and Gretel

Charles Ogle as James Malone

[1923] The Covered Wagon [1918] M'Liss [1917] A Romance of the Redwoods [1910] A Christmas Carol [1910] Frankenstein

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Reviews

Phonearl

1914/01/31

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Console

1914/02/01

best movie i've ever seen.

Brainsbell

1914/02/02

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

filippaberry84

1914/02/03

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.