American-born Paris dancer Loïe Fuller was one of the most celebrated dancers of the period and, until the emergence of her protégée Isadora Duncan, the most important figure in "modern dance". She most certainly creatid the Serpentine Dance in 1893 but she also wrote an autobiography and does not say a word about ever making a film. The film companies all reproduced her dance with other dancers, occasionally hinting that it really was Fuller in the film but none of the films genuinely feature her. Pathé entiled the film Loïe Fuller but never actually claimed that it was her.
Review of Loie Fuller
