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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Also known as [Is a Woman a Person]
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley

Cast: Phillips Smalley [Doctor Broome], Lois Weber [Mrs. Broome], Priscilla Dean [Mrs. Graham], Wedgewood Nowell [Mr. Graham], Evelyn Selbie [Sarah], Harry De More [Sarah’s husband], Burwell Hamrick [Broome’s son], Josephine Myers [the little girl]

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed on State Rights basis by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [Special Feature]. / Produced by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley. Scenario by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley. Cinematography by Allan G. Siegler. / © 10 May 1917 by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [LP10746]. Released 13 May 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film is based on the life of women’s rights activist Margaret Sanger.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.1754.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Birth control - Medical: Diseases: Tuberculosis

Listing updated: 10 November 2022.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.1754; Brownlow-Behind p. xxiii; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 27; Sloan-Loud pp. 89, 92-93, 98i, 149 : Website-IMDb.

 
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