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Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl
“Girlish Innocence! Deep-Dyed Villainy! Grand Heroics! Thrills-Laughter!”
9.0 / 10• 1926• 1h 0m•NR• English
AdventureDramaRomance
Storyline
Bertha Sloan loses her job as a sewing-machine girl and subsequently is employed as telephone girl with a lingerie manufacturing company. She soon falls in love with the assistant shipping clerk, Roy Davis, and is promoted to chief model for the firm, owing to the patronage of Morton, the wealthy and wicked manager. Bertha is about to take a position in Paris as designer when Morton lures her to his home.
Cast & Crew
Madge Bellamy
Bertha Sloan
LeadAS
Allan Simpson
Roy Davis
Sally Phipps
Jessie
Paul Nicholson
Jules Morton
Anita Garvin
Flo Mason
J. Farrell MacDonald
Sloan
Ethel Wales
Mrs. Sloan
Arthur Housman
Salesman
What People Are Saying
5.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Irving Cummings's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
5.0
“Every frame feels alive. Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
