For the Cause of Suffrage

For the Cause of Suffrage is a 1909 silent comedy film. It stars Francis Ford. It was produced by Gaston Méliès and copyrighted by Georges Méliès.[1]

For the Cause of Suffrage
Produced byGaston Méliès
StarringFrancis Ford
Production
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Méliès
Distributed byEnterprise Optical Company
Star-Film
Release date
  • October 20, 1909 (1909-10-20)

Plot

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Mr. Duff dresses as a woman and infiltrates a women's suffrage meeting.[2][3]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List". www.silentera.com. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
  2. ^ Stamp, Shelley (2018-06-05). Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon. Princeton University Press. p. 165. ISBN 9780691187754.
  3. ^ Sloan, Kay (1981). "Sexual Warfare in the Silent Cinema: Comedies and Melodramas of Woman Suffragism" (PDF). American Quarterly. 33 (4): 412–436. doi:10.2307/2712526. hdl:2152/31143. ISSN 0003-0678. JSTOR 2712526.
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