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  Mabel Normand.
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What Happened to Rosa
(1920) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4148 feet
Directed by Victor L. Schertzinger

Cast: Mabel Normand [Mayme Ladd; inhabited by the spirit of Rosa Alvaro], Doris Pawn [Gwen Applebaum], Hugh Thompson [Doctor Maynard Drew], Tully Marshall [Percy Peacock], Eugenie Besserer [Madame Yvette O’Donnell], Buster Trow [Jim, Gwen’s beau], Adolphe Menjou [Drew’s friend], [?] ? [Drew’s nurse], [?] ? [Spike], [?] ? [Gwen’s confidant in the store], [?] ? [the police detective], [?] ? [the policeman], [?] ? [the clothing vendor], [?] ? [the other street vendor]

Goldwyn Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Goldwyn Distributing Corporation [A Goldwyn Picture]. / Scenario by Gerald C. Duffy, from the short story “Rosa Alvaro, Entrante” by Pearl L. Curran (Pearl Lenore Curran). Art direction by Cedric Gibbons. Photographed (cinematography) by George Webber. Presented by Samuel Goldwyn. / © 22 November 1920 by Goldwyn Pictures Corporation [LP15839]. Released December 1920. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: Rosa Alvaro. Fussell-Normand p. 265 lists the release date as 23 April 1921; Website-AFI notes that the film was released in some parts of the USA in 1920, and in other parts in 1921.

Comedy.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.4854.

Survival status: Print exists in the film holdings of Film Preservation Associates.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Coal: Coal chutes - Communication: Telephones - Costume parties - Department stores: Clerks, Floorwalkers - Disguises - Fights - Medical: Doctors, Nurses - Mummies - Rescues - Mysticism: Seers, Spirits - Street vendors - Swimming - Transportation: Automobiles, Street cars, Trucks

Listing updated: 17 August 2016.

References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F1 n. F1.4854; AFI-F2 n. F2.6206; Fussell-Normand pp. 265-266; Limbacher-Feature p. 272 : ClasIm-240 p. 44 : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.

 
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