The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
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About The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
Alice Guy's first version, as she later described it: a honeymoon couple, a farmer, babies pasted on cardboard, and one live baby, with a fairy pulling infants out of the cabbage patch. That 1896 strip is lost. The films online under this title are the 1900 remake and the 1902 Sage-femme de première classe.
Cast & crew
More about The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
Alice Guy directed it at Gaumont, the year she started making films. She is the only cast name attached to the lost version.
Themes
In film history
Guy named this as her first film, and as the first fiction film made by a woman. The print itself is gone, so the claim rests on her account and on the two remakes.
Preservation
The 1896 negative is not known to survive. What circulates is the 1900 La Fée aux choux and the 1902 film Guy first titled the same way and then called Sage-femme de première classe.
