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   Lenona to Manfred Polak   
   Re: "A Pictorial History of the Silent S   
   20 Aug 21 07:27:36   
   
   From: lenona321@yahoo.com   
      
   On Wednesday, August 18, 2021 at 5:14:27 PM UTC-4, Manfred Polak wrote:   
      
   > Hamlet is played by Asta Nielsen, and she was   
   > the producer, too.   
      
   Born in Denmark in 1881, she died in 1972.   
      
   She starred in "Hedda Gabler," appeared with Greta Garbo in "The Joyless   
   Street," and starred in the 1916 "Cinderella."   
      
   About that one:   
      
   "Growing up with mean foster parents, Lotte is employed as a kitchen maid with   
   the von Harten family. After a dramatic interlude including accusation of   
   theft, Mrs. von Harten reveals the truth about being her real mother and the   
   two are reunited."   
      
   And, from one critic's review of "A Militant Suffragette" (German, 1913):   
      
   https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/57873/four-films-with-asta-nielsen/   
      
   "Despite The Suffragette's strangely backward-looking conclusion (long story   
   short: the suffragettes do not emerge victorious), it's actually a pleasant,   
   efficiently paced drama with a diverting performance from Nielsen."   
      
   (German women won the right to vote five years later.)   
      
   Lenona.   
      
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