Movie: The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan

Top 10 Billed Cast

Yale Boss
Yale Boss

Daddy, the office boy

Edward Boulden
Edward Boulden

A reporter

Mary Fuller
Mary Fuller

Dolly Desmond

Charles Ogle
Charles Ogle

James Malone

Warren Cook
Warren Cook

Mr. Cambridge

Miriam Nesbitt
Miriam Nesbitt

Mrs. Cambridge

Charles Sutton
Charles Sutton

James Bolliver

Florence Coventry
Florence Coventry

Mrs. Winslow

Robert Brower
Robert Brower

Director of Union Realty

Harry B. Eytinge
Harry B. Eytinge

Clerk

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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.

  • Release Date

    1914-01-31

  • Average

    5

  • Rating:

    2.5 starts
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    English
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