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Putnam and her dress

This film played clips of a poor young woman garment worker, whose mother is dying, begging for work to raise money for medicine to save her. The film juxtaposes those clips against clips of rich people dancing and drinking at a nice restaurant in…

Marguerite Clark played both the prince and the pauper in the 1915 film Prince and the Pauper. This demonstrates, further, that while men and women had very separate gender roles and dress in society, it was acceptable for women to play men in the…