- The Eternal Grind
Infobox Film
name = The Eternal Grind
caption = Theatrical poster
director =John B. O'Brien
writer = William H. Clifford
starring =Mary Pickford
producer =
distributor =Famous Players
budget =
released =April 17 ,1916
country = USA
language =Silent film
English intertitles
runtime =
language = Silent
imdb_id = 0006637
"The Eternal Grind" is a 1916
silent film directed byJohn B. O'Brien . The film is inspired by theTriangle Shirtwaist Factory fire , which took place in 1911. The movie was received generally negatively, withThe New York Times saying "Obliged by her Famous Players contract to star in pedestrian melodramas like The Eternal Grind, it was no wonder that Mary Pickford yearned to become her own producer". [ [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/90600/The-Eternal-Grind/overview The New York Times Review] ]The film is nowadays believed to be lost.
Plot
Louise (
Mary Pickford ) is a sewing-machine girl in a sweatshop inNew 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.
Cast
*
Mary Pickford - Louise
* Loretta Blake - Amy
* Dorothy West - Jane
*John Bowers - Owen Wharton
* Robert Cain - Ernest Whartonee also
*
Mary Pickford filmography Reference
External links
*imdb title|id=0006637|title=The Eternal Grind
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