Votes for Women
Votes for Women – cortometraggio del 1908 prodotto dalla Warwick Trading Company
Votes for Women – cortometraggio del 1912 diretto da Hal Reid
Votes for Women – documentario del 1997 diretto da Kay Weaver, Martha Wheelock
Trama
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.)
Cast
| Attore | Ruolo |
|---|---|
| Edgena De Lespine | Jane Wadsworth |
| Gertrude Robinson | |
| Sue Balfour | |
| Pearl Egan | |
| Gladys Egan | |
| Charles Herman | |
| Edward P. Sullivan | |
| J.W. Backus | |
| Jane Addams | Self |
| Frances Maule Bjorkman | Self |
| Florence Maule Cooley | Self |
| Mary Ware Dennett | Self |
| Harriet Laidlaw | Self |
| Inez Millholland | Self |
| Harriet May Mills | Self |
| Mrs. L.H. Ozedam | Self |
| Anna Howard Shaw | Self |
| Mary Beard |
Equipaggio
| Ruolo | Nome |
|---|---|
| Writer | Frances Maule Bjorkman, Harriet Laidlaw, Mary Ware Dennett |
| Director | Hal Reid |