Canned Harmony
The Professor will not allow his daughter to marry a non-musician, but Billy, her would-be suitor, cannot play a single note. When he is about to give up, Billy’s roommate suggests bluffing his way into the Professor’s favor with the aid of a suitably musical disguise and a well-hidden phonograph player.
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Canned Harmony (1912) is directed by Alice Gay Blache who was the first woman director and the first persons to direct a fiction film in 1896. She also co-owned with her husband one of the first film studios, where she posted a sign reading "ACT NATURALLY" She also directed "Algie the Miner" which is found elsewhere in the Archive.
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- Director
- Alice Guy-Blaché
- Starring
- Billy Quirk, Blanche Cornwall, Lee Beggs, Darwin Karr
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