The Gray Nun of Belgium
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The Gray Nun of Belgium was a 1915 film announced for release on the Alliance Program by Dramatic Feature Films
, Frank Joslyn Baum
's short-lived successor to The Oz Film Manufacturing Company
.
Despite the advertising in Motion Picture News
announcing its release date, Katharine Rogers, in L. Frank Baum: Creator of Oz, believes that Alliance found the film inferior and refused to distribute it. The exhibition copy, which may have been a work print, may have been the only copy ever struck. Baum himself thought that exchanges and exhibitors dismissed the film "rather arbitrarily" based on the Oz Company name.
In the film, Betty Pierce played a Mother Superior
who aided allied soldiers during the Great War.
Dramatic Feature Films
Dramatic Feature Films was an unsuccessful silent film venture by Frank Joslyn Baum, son of L. Frank Baum. The office was at 300 West 42nd Street in New York City , while the films were made in the Hollywood studios of The Oz Film Manufacturing Company, which was the company's former identity.Two...
, Frank Joslyn Baum
Frank Joslyn Baum
Frank Joslyn Baum was a lawyer, soldier, writer, and film producer, though his attempts to continue the legacy of his father brought him lawsuit and estrangement from his family. Nonetheless, he became the first president of The International Wizard of Oz Club.He is best known as the author of To...
's short-lived successor to The Oz Film Manufacturing Company
The Oz Film Manufacturing Company
The Oz Film Manufacturing Company was an independent film studio from 1914-1915. It was founded by L. Frank Baum , Louis F. Gottschalk , Harry Marston Haldeman , and Clarence R. Rundel as an offshoot of Haldeman's social group, The Uplifters, that met at the Los Angeles Athletic Club...
.
Despite the advertising in Motion Picture News
Motion Picture News
The Motion Picture News was an American film industry trade paper published from 1913 to 1930.The publication was created through the 1913 merger of the Moving Picture News founded in 1908 and the The Exhibitors' Times, founded only earlier in 1913.After being acquired by Martin Quigley in 1930,...
announcing its release date, Katharine Rogers, in L. Frank Baum: Creator of Oz, believes that Alliance found the film inferior and refused to distribute it. The exhibition copy, which may have been a work print, may have been the only copy ever struck. Baum himself thought that exchanges and exhibitors dismissed the film "rather arbitrarily" based on the Oz Company name.
In the film, Betty Pierce played a Mother Superior
Abbess
An abbess is the female superior, or mother superior, of a community of nuns, often an abbey....
who aided allied soldiers during the Great War.