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Frou Frou (1914)

Frou Frou poster
Directed by
Eugene Moore
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Based on a French play, this 1914 silent film tells the story of a woman torn between love and duty. The plot follows her romantic entanglements and the consequences of her choices.

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What happens

Frou Frou è un film muto del 1914 diretto da Eugene Moore. Il soggetto è tratto da Frou Frou, l'originale lavoro teatrale dei francesi Henri Meilhac e Ludovic Halévy che ebbe numerose versioni cinematografiche, nell'adattamento inglese di Augustin Daly, andato in scena a Broadway per la prima volta il 15 febbraio 1870 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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