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Max Wants a Divorce [Mar. 26, 1917] (opens the original)
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Max Linder made 233 films. I’ve clearly missed the boat on him, as Max Wants a Divorce was among his final films. He only made 10 more after this one. I watched this on a DVD that includes 3 other Linder films. Click the image below if you’d like to buy a copy of your own. (I get nothing if you do, so this isn’t a ploy to make money.) The film is in the public domain, and can be viewed here. Here is the other film I watched, from 1911, which predates Chaplin’s earliest works by 3 years. Linder i
The Poor Little Rich Girl [Mar. 5, 1917] (opens the original)
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Another Mary Pickford movie, this one is listed on imdb.com as The Poor Little Rich Girl , though you can see from the poster below that it was originally titled with an “a” rather than a “the.” The film has all sorts of clever camerawork and plot points. Here’s my favorite: when Pickford shouts through the keyhole that she hates her new playmate, we see the words come bursting through to the other side! I watched this on a Blu-ray, which is, sadly, now out of print. As of this writing, there is
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