A Child of the Ghetto
📋 Details
🎬 Director
D.W. Griffith
✍️ Writers
Stanner E.V. Taylor
🎥 Producers
Edwin S. Porter
🌍 Countries
United States of America
🏢 Production
American Mutoscope & Biograph
🗣️ Languages
No Language
🎭 Genres
Drama
Short
📖 Overview
After her mother’s death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner’s son steals some money and Ruth is accused of the crime. She flees the ghetto of New York’s Lower East Side and hides in the country where she meets a young farmer.
🎭 Cast
Dorothy West
Ruth
Kate Bruce
Ruth's Mother
Dell Henderson
The Proprietor
Charles West
The Proprietor's Son
W. Chrystie Miller
The Old Man
George Nichols
Officer Quinn
Henry B. Walthall
The Farmer
Clara T. Bracy
The Farm Woman
👤
William J. Butler
In Second Shop
👤
Charles Craig
In Sweatshop
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