Movie Description
Votes for Women
(1912)Overview
Named by historian Kevin Brownlow as “the first important suffrage film”, this melodrama follows suffragist May Fillmore in her fight to sway Senator Herman, whose vote could pass a key reform bill. After exposing him and his fiancée Jane Wadsworth to the dire living conditions of a motherless tenement family—unsanitary housing, child labor, and workplace exploitation—Jane turns against her negligent fiancé and joins the suffrage cause. Ultimately, both Herman and Jane’s father are persuaded to support reform, and the film ends with the characters proudly taking part in a suffrage parade. (Note: This silent narrative film is distinct from Edison’s Votes for Women (1913), a Kinetophone short that recorded real suffragist leaders delivering speeches.)
Featured Crew
- Director : Hal Reid
- Writer : Harriet Laidlaw,Frances Maule Bjorkman,Mary Ware Dennett
- Cast : Edgena De Lespine,Gertrude Robinson,Sue Balfour,Pearl Egan,Gladys Egan,Charles Herman,Edward P. Sullivan,J.W. Backus,Jane Addams,Frances Maule Bjorkman,Florence Maule Cooley,Mary Ware Dennett,Harriet Laidlaw,Inez Millholland,Harriet May Mills,Mrs. L.H. Ozedam,Anna Howard Shaw,Mary Beard
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Facts
Original TitleVotes for Women
Status Released
Release Information
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1912-06-25
Original LanguageUnknown
Runtime 00h 20m
Production CompaniesReliance Film Company
