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Behind the Scenes
UNITED STATES · 1908

Behind the Scenes

D.W. Griffith
maternal sacrifice poverty illness and death premonition performance and reality
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Synopsis

A mother works as a dancer to support her ill daughter. One night while performing, the mother has a vision of her child dying. She rushes home, but it is too late.

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