UNITED STATES · 1909

A Baby’s Shoe

D.W. Griffith
Classical Hollywood poverty maternal sacrifice child abandonment class divide separation and loss
Synopsis

The story tells of the young widowed mother of two children who is forced by extreme poverty to part with one of her children, a baby girl, by placing it in a basket on the door steps of a wealthy banker. Before leaving the baby the poor mother takes one of its little shoes to keep as a memento.

Year1909
CountryUnited States
DirectorD.W. Griffith
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