Directed by Francis Powers Initial release 26 April 1915 (USA) Screenplay L. Frank Baum | Director Francis Powers | |
Produced by Frank Joslyn BaumP. Sumner Brown Starring Catherine CountissBetty PierceDavid Proctor Distributed by Alliance Films Corporation (announced) Cast Betty Pierce, Catherine Countiss, David Proctor Similar The Fairylogue and Radi, The Magic Cloak of Oz, The Patchwork Girl of Oz, His Majesty - the Scare, The Wizard of Oz | ||
The Gray Nun of Belgium was a 1915 film announced for release on the Alliance Program by Dramatic Feature Films, Frank Joslyn Baum's short-lived successor to The Oz Film Manufacturing Company.
Despite the advertising in Motion Picture News announcing its release date, Katharine Rogers, in L. Frank Baum: Creator of Oz, believes that Alliance found the film inferior and refused to distribute it. The exhibition copy, which may have been a work print, may have been the only copy ever struck. Baum himself thought that exchanges and exhibitors dismissed the film "rather arbitrarily" based on the Oz Company name.
In the film, Betty Pierce played a Mother Superior who aided allied soldiers during World War I.
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