A Child of the Ghetto (1910)

A Child of the Ghetto

1910

Drama

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

D.W. Griffith

Cast

Charles Craig as In Sweatshop

Charles West as The Proprietor's Son

Clara T. Bracy as The Farm Woman

Dell Henderson as The Proprietor

Dorothy West as Ruth

George Nichols as Officer Quinn

Henry B. Walthall as The Farmer

Kate Bruce as Ruth's Mother