A Florida Enchantment

A Florida Enchantment

NR 1914 · 63 min · ★ 4.4 · Comedy, Fantasy

Lillian Travers, a New York heiress, pops down to Florida to surprise her fiancé, Fred Cassadene, the house doctor at a prominent Saint Augustine hotel. The surprise, however, is Lillian's when she finds Fred in a series of compromising situations with a certain wealthy widow staying there. When she can take no more, Lillian discovers a box forgotten at an old curiosity shop in which lies a hundred-year-old secret: a vial of four rare and exotic African seeds that promises to transform whoever swallows one from a woman to a man or vice versa.

Directed by Sidney Drew · Written by Marguerite Bertsch

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Sidney Drew Dr. Frederick Cassadene
Mrs. Sidney Drew Bessie Horton
Edith Storey Miss Lillian Travers / Lawrence Talbot
Charles Kent Major Horton
Ada Gifford Mrs. Stella Lovejoy
Ethel Lloyd Jane
Lillian Burns Malvina
Grace Stevens Miss Constancia Oglethorpe
Cortland Van Deusen Charley Wilkes

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