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The Suffragette Minstrels
(1913) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by Dell Henderson
Cast: Dorothy Gish [a suffragette minstrel], Gertrude Bambrick [a suffragette minstrel], Sylvia Ashton [an old woman], Kate Toncray [an old woman], William Beaudine [an audience member], William J. Butler [an audience member], William Courtright [an audience member], Edward Dillon [an audience member], William Elmer (Billy Elmer) [an audience member], Frank Evans [an audience member], Elmo Lincoln [an audience member], Dave Morris [an audience member], Charles Murray [an audience member], Gus Pixley [an audience member], Dell Henderson [a man at the theatre], [?] Lionel Barrymore?, [?] Owen Moore?
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / From a screen story by Dorothy Gish. Assistant director, William Beaudine. / Released 18 August 1913; in a split-reel with Father’s Chicken Dinner (1913). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? At least two wives of Jenksville did not intend that their husbands should be corrupted by the arrival of these enticing ladies in town. That show should be investigated. It resulted in their becoming one of the sensations of the performance, while the husbands became an awful example.
Survival status: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Suffragettes
Listing updated: 13 December 2024.
References: Sloan-Loud pp. 106, 151; Spehr-American p. 3 : Website-IMDb.
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