This 1909 adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe tale was made by D W Griffith, later responsible for the notorious Birth of a Nation. It concerns a Count with an unfaithful wife who seals off the room where she and a minstrel are having their tryst and causes their ( rather quick ) death by suffocation. Future superstar Mary Pickford appears briefly as a lady in waiting.
Marion Leonard ( The Countess )
Sex : The Countess's adultery drives the plot but we don't see more than a bit of canoodling. In her death agonies the Countess looks like she's about to rip her dress open but it doesn't happen.
Death : By suffocation , along with her lover.
Marion was a popular actress who made over 200 films many of them with Pickford. She died in 1956.
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