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Frank McGlynn, Sr., and Miriam Nesbitt
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Roger Davis (left, played by Frank McGlynn Sr.) and Effie Dorgan (played by Miriam Nesbitt dressed as a nun and holding a child) with an unidentified actor in a scene still from the 1915 Edison production "A Woman's Revenge."
1915
Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
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