Iris (play)

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Iris is a 1901 play by the British writer Arthur Wing Pinero.

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In 1916 it was turned into a film Iris directed by Cecil M. Hepworth and starring Alma Taylor, one of the leading stars of the era. [1]

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  1. Goble p.814

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