In the life of Benito Pérez Galdós, two of his novels arrived at the cinema in two silent films. Domènec Ceret directed the doubt in 1916, and Hollywood was about to get ahead of Spanish cinema, because, two years later, the Universal produced, with the bizarre title of Beauty in chains - something as well as chained beauties -, an adaptation of Doña Perfecta (1876), directed, with a feminist touch, by Elsie Jane Wilson, a pioneer of cinema made by women . The novel had been published in the USA by

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