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Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl (1926)

Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl poster
Original title
Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl
Directed by
Irving Cummings
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h
Rated
NR
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman works as a seamstress in a factory to support her family. She faces hardship and must make difficult choices about her future.

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What happens

Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl is a 1926 American drama film directed by Irving Cummings and written by Gertrude Orr. It is based on the 1906 play Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl by Theodore Kremer. The film stars Madge Bellamy, Allan Simpson, Sally Phipps, Paul Nicholson, Anita Garvin and J. Farrell MacDonald. The film was released on December 19, 1926, by Fox Film Corporation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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