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The Eternal Grind is a american film of genre Drama directed by John B. O'Brien released in USA on 17 april 1916 with Mary Pickford
The Eternal Grind (1916)
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Add to a movie listThe Eternal Grind is a 1916 silent drama film directed by John B. O'Brien, and starring Mary Pickford. The film is inspired by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which took place in 1911.
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Louise (Pickford) is a sewing-machine girl in a sweatshop in New York City. She lives together with her sisters Amy (Loretta Blake) and Jane (Dorothy West) and are all deprived by bad conditions at work and sickness. Louise tries for the three of them to survive and regards herself as the keeper of her sisters.Actors
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