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Either way, by 1903, she had already established enough of a reputation as a Black actress to be listed under her own name.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>With Bertha Regustus<\/p>\n<p>Bertha Regustus was one of the first African American women to appear in silent films. She was a slapstick comedienne, playing the role of the heroine Mandy Brown. Unfortunately, nothing is known about her life except that she appeared in three films that gained more critical attention. Regustus performs as a woman possessing power \u2013 she subverts the low social status of her role by dominating white spaces and acquiring agency.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Films with Bertha Regustus<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Laughing Gas <\/strong>1907 | <strong>The Servant Girl Problem <\/strong>1905 | <strong>What Happened in the Tunnel<\/strong> 1903<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40142,"template":"","movie_year":[484],"movie_genre":[97],"movie_cat":[780,797],"festival":[805],"class_list":["post-40679","movie","type-movie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","movie_year-484","movie_genre-silent-film-en","movie_cat-2025-en","movie_cat-focus-en-2025","festival-2025-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Laughing Gas - Internationales Frauen Film Fest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/frauenfilmfest.com\/en\/movie\/laughing-gas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Laughing Gas - 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