A Florida Enchantment (1914) on Netflix
New York heiress Lillian Travers visits St. Augustine to surprise her fiancé, Dr. Fred Cassadene, who is flirting with a widow. A vial of seeds promises to change her sex.
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Plot summary
Lillian Travers, a New York heiress, travels to St. Augustine, Florida, to stay with her aunt and to see her fiancé, Dr. Fred Cassadene, about their wedding. She means her arrival as a surprise, but the doctor is busy flirting with a widow at the hotel, and Lillian watches with jealousy. While sightseeing she comes upon an old curiosity shop, where she buys a box that matches one her aunt owns. It holds a note and four seeds that, the note says, turn the person who swallows one into a member of the opposite sex. Angry with the doctor, she decides to try one.
Cast
- Ada Giffordas Mrs. Stella Lovejoy
- Grace Stevensas Miss Constancia Oglethorpe
- Cortland Van Deusenas Charley Wilkes
- Allan Campbellas Mr. Stockton Remington
- Frank O'Neilas Gustavus Duncan
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Florida Enchantment (1914)
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- A Florida Enchantment has been considered the first American motion picture to show documented bisexual characters: Lillian and her fiancé are shown attracted both to each other and to people of the same sex, at different times in the story.
- The 1914 silent film has been seen as one of the earliest screen representations of homosexuality and cross-dressing in American culture since Vito Russo put it in his 1981 book The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies, and in the 1995 documentary adapted from that book.
- The film's later life includes a place at the center of Antkind, the 2020 novel by writer and director Charlie Kaufman.
