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In 2021, American director Pamela B. Green announced her plans for a biopic about this director, three years after directing a documentary about this director entitled Be Natural. This director described the first iteration of one film as featuring a couple on their honeymoon finding cardboard on a farmer’s land, elements absent from the later versions. This director’s comedy A Fool and His Money was one of the earliest films to feature an (*) all-black cast. A woman in front of an ivy-covered fence (-5[1])pulls three naked babies from behind foliage in a film this director created while working as a secretary for Leon Gaumont. For 10 points, The Cabbage Patch Fairy was (10[1])directed (-5[1])by what Frenchwoman, widely recognized as the world’s first female director? (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: Alice Guy-Blaché
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