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The Gray Nun of Belgium was a 1915 film announced for release on the Alliance Program by Dramatic Feature Films, Frank Joslyn Baum's short-lived successor to The Oz Film Manufacturing Company.

The Gray Nun of Belgium
Directed by	Francis Powers
Written by	Frank Joslyn Baum (or possibly L. Frank Baum)
Produced by	Frank Joslyn Baum P. Sumner Brown
Starring	Cathrine Countiss Betty Pierce David Proctor
Production company	Dramatic Feature Films
Distributed by	Alliance Films Corporation (announced)
Release date	April 26, 1915 (1915-04-26) (announced)
Country	United States
Language	English (titles)

Despite the advertising in Motion Picture News announcing its release date, Katharine Rogers, in L. Frank Baum: Creator of Oz, believes that Alliance found the film inferior and refused to distribute it. The exhibition copy, which may have been a work print, may have been the only copy ever struck. Baum himself thought that exchanges and exhibitors dismissed the film "rather arbitrarily" based on the Oz Company name.[1]

In the film, Betty Pierce played a Mother Superior who aided Allied soldiers during World War I. Cathrine Countiss played the title role. It also starred David Proctor, Mae Wells, Katherine Griffith, Raymond Russell, Robert Dunbar, Harry Clements, and James Spencer.[2] Wells and Russell were prominent actors in the Oz Company, having played roles such as Mombi and Dr. Pipt, respectively.

References

• Richard Mills and David L. Greene. "The Oz Film Manufacturing Company." The Baum Bugle. Autumn 1973.
• Katharine M. Rogers. L. Frank Baum: Creator of Oz. HarperCollins, 2004.

External links

• The Gray Nun of Belgium at IMDb

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