Votes for Women
The feature that has the support of every suffrage organization in the country.
1912 | 20m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Hal Reid |
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| Writer: | Frances Maule Bjorkman, Mary Ware Dennett, Harriet Laidlaw |
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| Named by historian Kevin Brownlow as “the first important suffrage film”, this melodrama follows suffragist May Fillmore in her fight to sway Senator Herman, whose vote could pass a key reform bill. After exposing him and his fiancée Jane Wadsworth to the dire living conditions of a motherless tenement family—unsanitary housing, child labor, and workplace exploitation—Jane turns against her negligent fiancé and joins the suffrage cause. Ultimately, both Herman and Jane’s father are persuaded to support reform, and the film ends with the characters proudly taking part in a suffrage parade. (Note: This silent narrative film is distinct from Edison’s Votes for Women (1913), a Kinetophone short that recorded real suffragist leaders delivering speeches.) | |
| Release Date: | Jun 25, 1912 |
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| Director: | Hal Reid |
| Writer: | Frances Maule Bjorkman, Mary Ware Dennett, Harriet Laidlaw |
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| Production Companies | Reliance Film Company |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 21, 2026 Entered: May 27, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Edgena De Lespine | Jane Wadsworth |
| Gertrude Robinson | |
| Sue Balfour | |
| Pearl Egan | |
| Gladys Egan | |
| Charles Herman | |
| Edward P. Sullivan | |
| J.W. Backus | |
| Jane Addams | Self |
| Frances Maule Bjorkman | Self |
| Florence Maule Cooley | Self |
| Mary Ware Dennett | Self |
| Harriet Laidlaw | Self |
| Inez Millholland | Self |
| Harriet May Mills | Self |
| Mrs. L.H. Ozedam | Self |
| Anna Howard Shaw | Self |
| Mary Beard |
| Name | Job |
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| Hal Reid | Director |
| Frances Maule Bjorkman | Writer |
| Mary Ware Dennett | Writer |
| Harriet Laidlaw | Writer |
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| 2024 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2025 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
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