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Women Pioneers of Silent CinemaFilm 7 of 22
Where Are My Children?
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Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley, Universal, 1916. District Attorney Richard Walton (Tyrone Power Sr.) wants children and must prosecute a doctor for mailing contraceptive advice. His wife Edith and her circle have been seeing another doctor for abortions. Weber treats birth control as a Progressive cause and abortion as a crime, in the eugenic language of the moment. Motion Picture News reported crowds outside the Globe on Broadway. The picture made its cost back in California state rights alone.
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Women Pioneers of Silent Cinema
Lois Weber, working with Phillips Smalley at Universal in 1916, used a feature to argue a Progressive brief on birth control and abortion, in the eugenic language of that year. The trades already treated her as one of the highest-paid directors in America, which is the authority she spent on this picture. Tyrone Power Sr. prosecutes a doctor for mailing contraceptive advice while his own household is seeing another doctor. Motion Picture News noted the Broadway crowds at the Globe, and California state-rights sales alone covered the negative cost.
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