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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
AKA [Is a Woman a Person]
(1917) American
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley

Cast: Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley, Priscilla Dean, Wedgewood Nowell, Evelyn Selbie, Harry De More

Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed on State Rights basis by Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [Special Feature]. / Produced by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley. Scenario by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley. Cinematography by Allan Siegler. / © 10 May 1917 by Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [LP10746]. Released 13 May 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The film is based on the life of Margaret Sanger.

Drama.

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

Survival Status: (unknown)

Keywords: Birth control - Medical: Diseases: Tuberculosis

Listing updated: 15 November 2004.

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

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