A Florida Enchantment
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| A Florida Enchantment | |
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| Directed by | Sidney Drew |
| Produced by | Sidney Drew |
| Written by | Marguerite Bertsch Eugene Mullin |
| Starring | Edith Storey Sidney Drew Ethel Lloyd |
| Cinematography | Robert A. Stuart |
| Distributed by | Vitagraph |
| Release date(s) | 1914 |
| Running time | 63 minutes (at 20 fps) |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | A Horseshoe for Luck |
| Followed by | The Royal Wild West |
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A Florida Enchantment is a 1914 Vitagraph silent film directed by and starring Sidney Drew. The film is based on the 1891 novel and 1896 play (now lost) of the same name written by Fergus Redmond and Archibald Gunter.
In the film, Lillian Travers, a wealthy Northern woman about to be married, takes a magical seed which transforms its user into the opposite gender. Lillian's transformation into Lawrence Talbot has also been read as a transformation into a butch lesbian. This reading is bolstered by the later transformation of Lillian's fiancé into what appears to be an effemininate gay man.
The film is also known for its use of blackface antics; an aspect carefully dissected in Siobhan Somerville's "Queering the Color Line." Since its inclusion in Vito Russo's Celluloid Closet, the film has increasingly been seen as one of the earliest film representations of homosexuality in American culture.
[edit] External links
- A Florida Enchantment at the Internet Movie Database
- Plot summary, cast & crew biographies, and an online photo reconstruction of the film.
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