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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

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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

Kattiera Nana

1914/01/31

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.

Claysaba

1914/02/01

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Kien Navarro

1914/02/02

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Logan

1914/02/03

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.