Released:
1916-04-17

Overview:
Louise (Pickford) is a sewing-machine girl in a sweatshop in New York City. She lives together with her sisters Amy (Loretta Blake) and Jane (Dorothy West) and are all deprived by bad conditions at work and sickness. Louise tries for the three of them to survive and regards herself as the keeper of her sisters. Meanwhile, she stands up to her bosses and complains about the dreadful circumstances they work in. When Amy is seduced by the son of the shop-owner, Louise butts in and stops the romance. He eventually abandons Amy and becomes seriously injured in a cave-in. Louise has a secret crush on the son herself and tries to rescue him, hoping he will admit he loves her. The film is inspired by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which took place in 1911. The only version of the film is a nitrate print in the Cinematheque Francaise, but only the first half remains.

Director:
John B. O'Brien

Runtime:
0h 41min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Mary Pickford
  as
  Louise
• 
  Loretta Blake
  as
  Amy
• 
  Dorothy West
  as
  Jane
• 
  John Bowers
  as
  Owen Wharton
• 
  Robert Cain
  as
  Ernest Wharton