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Voidsville Follies

Works featuring "marriage reconciliation" (2)

She Would Be An Actress

Lubin (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Aug 1909
Minutes: 5

Intense drama unfolds when wife must choose between the two greatest joys in her life: dancing on stage, and whacking her hubby upside the head. What will she choose: the glamour of stage life, or the fulfillment of pummeling Papa?

Featured elements:

: abuse; backstage; by the book; comedy; dance; emblematic shot; family; forsaken; marriage reconciliation; neglected spouse; obsession; patriarchy; shrew; slapstick; undercover agent; zero to hero

That Little Band of Gold

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle (director/lead)
Mabel Normand (lead)
Alice Davenport (lead)
Ford Sterling (lead)
May Emory (lead)
Frank Hayes (lead)
Helen Carlyle (lead)
Slim Summerville (lead)
Keystone (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Mar 1915
Minutes: 25

Keystone attempts a more fleshed out story, less reliant on gags and falls. Though not a screamer, Ford Sterling's masterful comic mugging keeps it from being a snoozer.

Featured elements:

: abuse; bookends; comedy; courtroom; infidelity; marriage reconciliation; marriage termination; metatheatre; neglected spouse; revenge; servitude; slapstick; treachery

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