Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl

Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl

Girlish Innocence! Deep-Dyed Villainy! Grand Heroics! Thrills-Laughter!

1926•1h 0m

AdventureDramaRomance

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.

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Production

Fox Film Corporation

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Madge Bellamy

Madge Bellamy

Bertha Sloan

Allan Simpson

Roy Davis

Sally Phipps

Sally Phipps

Jessie

Paul Nicholson

Paul Nicholson

Jules Morton

Anita Garvin

Anita Garvin

Flo Mason

J. Farrell MacDonald

J. Farrell MacDonald

Sloan

Ethel Wales

Ethel Wales

Mrs. Sloan

Arthur Housman

Arthur Housman

Salesman

Harry A. Bailey

Sam Ginsberg

William Bakewell

William Bakewell

Salesman

Virginia Whiting

Model

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