Trilby

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"There is an excellent print of this silent film in the Cineteca del Friuli, Gemona. 'Trilby' was originally a novel by artist George du Maurier: remarkably, he wrote and illustrated this book after going blind in one eye and losing most of the sight in his other eye. A successful stage version was performed in London, in which the actress playing the title role made her first entrance wearing a man's snap-brim hat: this created such a sensation that hats of this type have ever afterward been known in Britain as trilbies. This film version is too short to dramatise the entire n..."