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The Grafter and the Maid or The Grafter and the Girl is an American film[1] directed by William Foster ca. 1914. Jerry Mills and Lottie Grady starred in it. Mills also wrote the screenplay.

The Pekin Theatre veterans had performed together in The Merry Widower as part of Pekin's stock company and in William Foster's The Railroad Porter.[2]

It is about a black butler working for a white family. Foster travelled in support of his films including this one.[1]

Foster followed the film with a successful release of The Fall Guy.[3]

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  1. ^ a b Luckett, Moya (December 7, 2013). Cinema and Community: Progressivism, Exhibition, and Film Culture in Chicago, 1907-1917. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 9780814337264 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "African American composers and performers: portrait images in sheet music". February 4, 2016.
  3. ^ "Why Black People Need To Create Their Own Film/Media Infrastructure". April 26, 2017.
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