A Florida Enchantment

A Florida Enchantment
Edith Storey as Lillian Travers/Lawrence Talbot (right) and Ethel Lloyd as Jane, "Miss Travers' mulatto maid" (left)
Directed bySidney Drew
Written byMarguerite Bertsch
Eugene Mullin
StarringEdith Storey
Sidney Drew
Ethel Lloyd
CinematographyRobert A. Stuart
Production
companies
Distributed byGeneral Film Co.
Release date
  • 1914 (1914)
Running time
5 reels, approx. 63 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

A Florida Enchantment (1914) is a silent film directed by Sidney Drew and released by the Vitagraph studio. The feature-length comedy/fantasy was shot in and around St. Augustine, Florida, where its story is set. It is notable for its cross-dressing lead characters, much later discussed as bisexual, lesbian, gay, and transgender.[1][2][3]

Full film
  1. ^ Horak, Laura (2016). Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934. Rutgers University Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0813574837.
  2. ^ Bean, Jennifer M.; Negra, Diane, eds. (2002). A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. pp. 251–252. ISBN 0822330253.
  3. ^ "A Florida Enchantment". Film at Lincoln Center. Archived from the original on May 6, 2022. Retrieved March 27, 2023.