What Happened to Mary
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What Happened to Mary is the first serial film made in the United States. Produced by Edison Studios, with screenplays by Horace G. Plympton, and directed by Charles Brabin, the action films starred M
Film still with (from left) Miriam Nesbitt, Mary Fuller, and Marc McDermott
Title card from episode nine of the serial. Note that there is no question mark present in the series title.
Mary Fuller
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Mary Claire Fuller was an American actress active in both stage and silent films. She also was a screenwriter and had several films produced. An early major star, by 1917 she could no longer obtain ro
What Happened to Mary
…made in the United States. Produced by Edison Studios, with screenplays by Horace G. Plympton, and directed by Charles Brabin, the action films starred Mary Fuller. Twelve one-reel episodes were released monthly beginning July 1912, coinciding with the literary serial of the same name published in McClure's The…
Fuller, c. 1914
Cover of 1916 news magazine The Masses, featuring profile of Fuller's character in the film The Heart of a Mermaid (1916); graphic by Frank Walts