Directed by Madeline Brandeis • 1918 • United States
Starring Zoe Rae, Dorphia Brown, John Dorland
Madeline Brandeis was just twenty-one years old when she wrote and directed this fairy-tale fantasy about a boy who falls to earth on a star and his ensuing adventures. With a cast comprised entirely of child actors and captivating animals, THE STAR PRINCE offers lessons in kindness, humility, and loyalty.
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The Cigarette
Directed by Germaine Dulac • 1919 • France
Starring Andrée Brabant, Gabriel Signoret, Jules RaucourtGermaine Dulac’s earliest extant film, LA CIGARETTE concerns a liberated young woman and her older husband, who believes she is having an affair—speaking to a real postwar crisis of masculinity i...
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The Blot
Directed by Lois Weber • 1921 • United States
Starring Claire Windsor, Louis Calhern, Philip HubbardThe last film made under the banner of Lois Weber Productions, this moral drama, also written by Weber, is a biting commentary on economic inequality. Through her portrait of the Griggs family—an...
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The Smiling Madame Beudet
Directed by Germaine Dulac • 1923 • France
Starring Germaine Dermoz, Madeleine Guitty, Jean d'YdConsidered one of Germaine Dulac’s most feminist films, THE SMILING MADAME BEUDET is also a crucial step in her continuing de-emphasis of traditional narrative structures in favor of visual associati...
