A District Attorney's outspoken stand on abortion lands him in trouble with the local community.A District Attorney's outspoken stand on abortion lands him in trouble with the local community.A District Attorney's outspoken stand on abortion lands him in trouble with the local community.
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Tyrone Power Sr.
- District Attorney Richard Walton
- (as Mr. Tyrone Power)
Mrs. Tyrone Power
- Mrs. Richard Walton
- (as Helen Riaume)
Alva D. Blake
- Roger - Mrs. Walton's Brother
- (as A.D. Blake)
George Berrell
- Judge
- (uncredited)
Georgia French
- Child
- (uncredited)
Mary MacLaren
- Walton's Maid
- (uncredited)
Andy MacLennan
- Man on Street
- (uncredited)
Anne Power
- Infant
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Phillips Smalley(uncredited)
- Lois Weber(uncredited)
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- TriviaThe two children of Tyrone Power Sr. and his co-star and real-life wife Helen Reaume (aka, Mrs. Tyrone Power), appear in this film: their newborn daughter Anne Power and their two-year-old son Tyrone Power, who became a matinee idol from the 1930s to the 1950s. He appears in the last minute and a half of the movie as a "ghost child".
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Opening Title Card I: The question of birth control is now being generally discussed. All intelligent people know that birth control is a subject of serious public interest. Newspapers, magazines and books have treated different phases of this question. Can a subject thus dealt with on the printed page be denied careful dramatization on the motion picture screen? The Universal Film Mfg. Company believes not.
- Alternate versionsIn 2000, the Library of Congress Motion Picture Conservation Center copyrighted a preservation print reconstructed from several incomplete prints. Funded by the Women's Film Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film and Television, it was coordinated by Scott Simmon, has a piano score composed and performed by Martin Marks, and runs 62 minutes.
- ConnectionsEdited into Governing Body (2023)
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Wasn't the wife played by his real wife?
I find it interesting that Mrs. Walton is credited as Helen Riaume (with no IMDb link). This appears to have been the same Helen Riaume who is credited elsewhere as "Mrs. Tyrone Power," and was Tyrone Power Sr.'s wife until the same year this was released. The content of this film is unusual enough, and having a married couple playing the leads and not credited as such adds to the interest.
In particular, the content was of a controversial nature in 1916, and is even more so today, with the sides reversed. The topic of abortion (called simply "birth control" in this movie) was not one that was raised often in films anyway, and moral guardians would have hesitated to let a movie through that favored the practice. The climate of Hollywood being what it is today, there might be no legal impediment to making a similarly anti-abortion film, but it would certainly be frowned upon, and perhaps de facto blacklisted.
In particular, the content was of a controversial nature in 1916, and is even more so today, with the sides reversed. The topic of abortion (called simply "birth control" in this movie) was not one that was raised often in films anyway, and moral guardians would have hesitated to let a movie through that favored the practice. The climate of Hollywood being what it is today, there might be no legal impediment to making a similarly anti-abortion film, but it would certainly be frowned upon, and perhaps de facto blacklisted.
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By what name was Where Are My Children? (1916) officially released in Canada in English?
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