The Gray Nun of Belgium
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.
| The Gray Nun of Belgium | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Francis Powers |
| Produced by | Frank Joslyn Baum P. Sumner Brown |
| Written by | Frank Joslyn Baum (or possibly L. Frank Baum) |
| Starring | Cathrine Countiss Betty Pierce David Proctor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Alliance Films Corporation (announced) |
Release date | April 26, 1915 (announced) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English (titles) |
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.[1]
In the film, Betty Pierce played a Mother Superior who aided Allied soldiers during World War I.
References
- Frank Baum, "The Oz Film Co. Was Unable to Turn the Wonderful Oz Books into Profitable Movies." Films in Review, August–September, 1956.
- Richard Mills and David L. Greene. "The Oz Film Manufacturing Company." The Baum Bugle. Autumn 1973.
- Katharine M. Rogers. L. Frank Baum: Creator of Oz. HarperCollins, 2004.
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