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What the Doctor Ordered
(1912) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel / 617 feet
Directed by Frank Powell

Cast: Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett, Jack Pickford, Eddie Dillon (Edward Dillon)

Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Cinematography by Percy Higginson. / © 7 August 1912 by Biograph Company. Released 5 August 1912; [?] in a split-reel with The Tourists (1912)? / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot in Mount Lowe, California.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 24 March 2012.

References: Fussell-Normand p. 246; Spehr-American p. 4.

Home video: DVD.