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Pour l’étoile S.V.P.
FRANCE · 1908

Pour l’étoile S.V.P.

Georges Méliès
romantic gesture mistaken identity practical joke theater life social class
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Synopsis

This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the missing parts of the movie. Basically a man wants to give some flowers to a stage star but a prankster instead gives them to an obese cleaning woman.

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