A Prisoner of the Harem

A Prisoner of the Harem

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 19, 1912

Genres

Drama, Romance

Original Title

A Prisoner of the Harem

Production Companies

Kalem Company

Director

Sidney Olcott

Description

Alice Durand, after weeks of discouragement, reads the following advertisement in the New York Herald: "Governess wanted. Young American woman, well educated and speaking French and German, may obtain lucrative position with prominent Egyptian. Fare and expenses will be advanced. Write, enclosing photograph, to Mahmoud Pasha, Sphinx Club, Cairo, Egypt." Answering the advertisement, Alice seven weeks later, secures the position and leaves her New York boarding-house for Egypt.