Major Frans (1916)

"Major Frans" is a 1916 Comedy movie directed by Maurits Binger and starring by Annie Bos, Frederick Vogeding. When his granddaughter is born, debt-ridden Colonel von Zwenken misses out on Aunt Roselaar's allowance of 20,000 guilders. Anxious to keep the money, his son-in-law telegraphs the aunt that a son was born, Frans, and the girl is brought up as a boy. Based on the novel by Anna L.G. Bosboom-Toussaint.