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Peg Woffington (1910)

Peg Woffington poster
Directed by
Edwin Stanton Porter
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An eighteenth century Irish actress navigates her life and career. This silent film shows scenes from her story based on a play.

old-fashionedquietstagedsimplerestraineddramatictheatricalhistorical

What happens

Peg Woffington is a 1910 American silent historical film directed by Edwin S. Porter and starring Florence Turner as the eighteenth century Irish actress Peg Woffington. The film is based on the 1852 play Masks and Faces by Tom Taylor and Charles Reade. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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