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The Bridegroom's Dilemma
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'The Bridegroom's Dilemma' was an 1899 French short silent comedy film by Georges Mlis. It was sold by Mlis's Star Film Company and is numbered 177178 in its catalogues, where it is advertised as a 'scne comique'.
A surviving production photograph shows Mlis as the elderly beau in the film. Historian Georges Sadoul, from available evidence, believed the young woman to be Mademoiselle Barral, who starred as Cinderella in Mlis's film of the same name later that year. The film is a 'coucher' (bedroom farce) in a popular style; several early filmmakers made similar farces, notably one from Eugne Pirou ('Le Coucher de la Marie', 1896) and at least three from Path (1901, 1904, and 1907).
The complete film is currently presumed lost. However, a flipbook published by Lon Beaulieu in the late 1890s, showing one woman helping another undress for bed before a gentleman in evening dress enters the bedroom, was rediscovered in the 2010s and has been tentatively identified as a fragment of the film.
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