Madame la Presidente

Madame la Presidente is a surviving 1916 American silent comedy film produced by Oliver Morosco and directed by Frank Lloyd. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures and stars Broadway legend and musical comedy star Anna Held in what would be her final and only feature-length film. The film is based on a play, Madame Presidente, that starred Fannie Ward on Broadway.

Cast

Anna Held as Mademoiselle Goberte
Forrest Stanley as Cyprian Gaudette
Herbert Standing as Augustin Galipaux
Page Peters as Octave Rosimond
Lydia Yeamans Titus as Madame Galipaux
Helen Jerome Eddy as Denise Galipaux
Howard Davies as Marius
Richard L'Estrange as Lerous
Robert Newcomb as De Berton
Frank A. Bonn as Pinglet
Liane Held Carrera as Nightclub Patron

Censorship

Like many American films of the time, Madame la Presidente was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Ohio Board of Censors required a cut to five feet of film of a scene between woman and official in his home where her actions are suggestive, an intertitle ending in "There is life in the old dog yet," and the scene where woman and man appear in which her skirt is pulled off and later where her entire dress is removed.

Preservation

A copy of Madame la Presidente is preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.