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The Female of the Species
(1912) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by D.W. Griffith

Cast: Charles H. West (Charles West) [the miner], Claire McDowell [the miner’s wife], Mary Pickford [her sister], Dorothy Bernard [the other woman]

Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer. / Released 15 April 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the Mary Pickford Institute for Film Education film collection [35mm duplicate negative].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 21 May 2012.

References: Film viewing : Barry-Griffith p. 43; Card-Seductive p. 35; Eyman-Pickford p. 326; Spehr-American p. 1 : Website-IMDb; Website-Pickford.

Home video: DVD.