Madame la Presidente is a surviving 1916 American silent comedy film produced by Oliver Morosco and directed by Frank Lloyd. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures and stars Broadway legend and musical comedy star Anna Held in what would be her final and only feature-length film.The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 published by The American Film Institute, c.1988The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Madame La Presidente The film is based on a play, Madame Presidente, that starred Fannie Ward on Broadway.Progressive Silent Film List: Madame la Presidente at silentera.comMadame Presidente as produced on Broadway at the Garrick Theatre September 15 1913 to January 1914, 128 performances; IBDb.com
Cast Anna Held as Mademoiselle Goberte Forrest Stanley as Cyprian Gaudette Herbert Standing as Augustin Galipaux Page Peters as Octave Rosimond Lydia Yeamans Titus as Madame Galipaux Helen Jerome Eddy as Denise Galipaux Howard Davies as Marius Richard L'Estrange as Lerous (credited as Dick La Strange) Robert Newcomb as De Berton Frank A. Bonn as Pinglet (credited as Frank Bonn) Liane Held Carrera as Nightclub Patron
Censorship Like many American films of the time, Madame la Presidente was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Ohio Board of Censors required a cut to five feet of film of a scene between woman and official in his home where her actions are suggestive, an intertitle ending in "There is life in the old dog yet," and the scene where woman and man appear in which her skirt is pulled off and later where her entire dress is removed.
Preservation A copy of Madame la Presidente is preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Madame La Presidente
See also The President (1938) Mademoiselle Gobete (1952) La presidentessa (1977)
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