The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
Mar 31 1896
•0h 1m
•Fantasy, Family
A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. This film is lost or never existed. Copies of it online are actually the 1900 remake.
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Alice Guy-Blaché
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