Phil for Short
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Le ménage Dranem
France, 1913
DCP, b&w, silent, 11 min.
Phil-For-Short
U.S., 1919
The daughter of an eccentric professor of Greek antiquity, Damophilia (Evelyn Greeley) has never been one for convention. Shortening her name to Phil, she manages the family farm in overalls and short bobbed hair much to the horror of the local busy bodies. When her father dies and the busy bodies come to reign her in, Phil hits the road disguised as boy and meets another professor of ancient Greece (Charles Walcott), an avowed women-hater who takes a shine to Phil’s well-versed “twin.” Misperceptions and misunderstandings—orchestrated and otherwise—abound from there until love wins out—on Phil’s terms—in this charmingly subversive romantic comedy.
DCP, b&w, silent, 82 min. Director: Oscar Apfel. Screenwriters: Clara Beranger, Forrest Halsey. With: Evelyn Greeley, Charles Walcott, James A. Furey.
