The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan
1914 · 14m · N/A
Comedy
Directed by
Walter Edwin
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Walter Edwin Director
- Yale Boss as Daddy, the office boy
- Edward Boulden as A reporter
- Mary Fuller as Dolly Desmond
- Charles Ogle as James Malone
- Warren Cook as Mr. Cambridge
- Miriam Nesbitt as Mrs. Cambridge
- Charles Sutton as James Bolliver
- Florence Coventry as Mrs. Winslow
- Robert Brower as Director of Union Realty
- Harry B. Eytinge as Clerk
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