A Florida Enchantment (1914)

USA, 1914
63m
35mm film, black and white, 1.33:1
silent

An American fantasy film directed by Sidney Drew. It was originally released in the USA on September 1914.

Plot Summary

In a Florida hotel, heiress Lillian Travers finds her fiancé, Dr Fred Cassadene, in the arms of another woman. Lillian swallows a seed found in an old box from Africa that supposedly came from the “Tree of Sexual Change” and transforms into a man.

Credits

Crew
Directed by: Sidney Drew
Vitagraph Co. of America, Broadway Star Features Co.
Picturized by: Eugene Mullen, Marguerite Bertsch
Based on the Novel by: Archibald Clavering Gunter, Fergus Redmund
Director of Photography: Robert A. Stuart

Cast
Sidney Drew (Dr Fred Cassadene)
Edith Storey (Miss Lillian Travers)
Charles Kent (Major Horton)
Jane Morrow (Bessie Horton)
Ada Gifford (Mrs Stella Lovejoy)
Ethel Lloyd (Jane)
Lillian Burns (Malvina)
Grace Stevens (Miss Constancia Oglethorpe)
Allan Campbell (Mr Stockton Remington)
Cortland Van Deusen (Charley Wilkes)
Frank O’Neil (Gustavus Duncan)