''Fate's Funny Frolic'' is a 1911
silent short comedy romance film directed by R.E. Baker and starring
Francis X. Bushman. It was produced by the
Essanay Studios
Essanay Studios, officially the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, was an early American motion picture studio. The studio was founded in 1907 in Chicago by George Kirke Spoor and Gilbert M. Anderson, originally as the Peerless Film Manufactu ...
, Chicago and distributed by the
General Film Company
The General Film Company was a motion picture distribution company in the United States. Between 1909 and 1920, the company distributed almost 12,000 silent era motion pictures. It was created as part of the Edison Trust to monopolize film dist ...
.
''Fate's Funny Frolic'' at silentera.com
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Cast
* Francis X. Bushman - Richard Malcolm
*Dorothy Phillips
Dorothy Phillips (born Dorothy Gwendolyn Strible, October 30, 1889 – March 1, 1980) was an American stage and film actress. She is known for her emotional performances in melodramas, having played a number of "brow beaten" women on screen, bu ...
- Alice Trevor
*Frank Dayton -
See also
* Francis X. Bushman filmography
References
External links
Fate's Funny Frolic at IMDb.com
1911 films
Essanay Studios films
1911 short films
Silent American comedy short films
1911 romantic comedy films
American black-and-white films
1910s American films
Silent American romantic comedy films
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