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Where Are My Children?

  • 19161916
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 2m
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
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POPULARITY
85,547
6,642
Where Are My Children? (1916)
Drama
A District Attorney's outspoken stand on abortion gets him in trouble with the local community.A District Attorney's outspoken stand on abortion gets him in trouble with the local community.A District Attorney's outspoken stand on abortion gets him in trouble with the local community.
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
741
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
85,547
6,642
  • Directors
    • Phillips Smalley(uncredited)
    • Lois Weber(uncredited)
  • Writers
    • Lucy Payton(from the story by)
    • Franklyn Hall(from the story by)
    • Lois Weber
  • Stars
    • Tyrone Power Sr.
    • Mrs. Tyrone Power
    • Marie Walcamp
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  • Directors
    • Phillips Smalley(uncredited)
    • Lois Weber(uncredited)
  • Writers
    • Lucy Payton(from the story by)
    • Franklyn Hall(from the story by)
    • Lois Weber
  • Stars
    • Tyrone Power Sr.
    • Mrs. Tyrone Power
    • Marie Walcamp
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 26User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 win

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    Tyrone Power Sr. in Where Are My Children? (1916)
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    Georgia French in Where Are My Children? (1916)
    Tyrone Power Sr. and Rena Rogers in Where Are My Children? (1916)
    Tyrone Power Sr. in Where Are My Children? (1916)
    Tyrone Power Sr. and Lois Weber in Where Are My Children? (1916)
    Tyrone Power Sr. and Mrs. Tyrone Power in Where Are My Children? (1916)
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    Tyrone Power Sr.
    Tyrone Power Sr.
    • District Attorney Richard Walton
    • (as Mr. Tyrone Power)
    Mrs. Tyrone Power
    • Mrs. Richard Walton
    • (as Helen Riaume)
    Marie Walcamp
    Marie Walcamp
    • Mrs. William Carlo
    Cora Drew
    Cora Drew
    • Walton's Housekeeper
    Rena Rogers
    Rena Rogers
    • Lillian - Housekeeper's Daughter
    Alva D. Blake
    Alva D. Blake
    • Roger - Mrs. Walton's Brother
    • (as A.D. Blake)
    Juan de la Cruz
    Juan de la Cruz
    • Dr. Herman Malfit
    C. Norman Hammond
    • Dr. William Homer
    William J. Hope
    • Richard's Brother-in-Law - a Eugenic Husband
    Marjorie Blynn
    • Richard's Sister - a Eugenic Wife
    William Haben
    • Dr. Gilding
    George Berrell
    George Berrell
    • Judge
    • (uncredited)
    Georgia French
    • Child
    • (uncredited)
    Mary MacLaren
    Mary MacLaren
    • Walton's Maid
    • (uncredited)
    Andy MacLennan
    • Man on Street
    • (uncredited)
    Anne Power
    • Infant
    • (uncredited)
    • Directors
      • Phillips Smalley(uncredited)
      • Lois Weber(uncredited)
    • Writers
      • Lucy Payton(from the story by)
      • Franklyn Hall(from the story by)
      • Lois Weber
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    • Trivia
      The two children of Tyrone Power Sr. and his co-star and real-life wife Helen Reaume, appear in this film: their newborn daughter Ann, and their two-year-old son Tyrone Power (1914-1958), who became a matinee idol from the '30s to the '50s. He appears in the last minute and a half of the movie as a "ghost child."
    • Quotes

      Opening Title Card I: The question of birth control is now being generally discussed. All intelligent people know that birth control is a subject of serious public interest. Newspapers, magazines and books have treated different phases of this question. Can a subject thus dealt with on the printed page be denied careful dramatization on the motion picture screen? The Universal Film Mfg. Company believes not.

    • Alternate versions
      In 2000, the Library of Congress Motion Picture Conservation Center copyrighted a preservation print reconstructed from several incomplete prints. Funded by the Women's Film Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film and Television, it was coordinated by Scott Simmon, has a piano score composed and performed by Martin Marks, and runs 62 minutes.
    • Connections
      Edited into Governing Body

    User reviews26

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    7/10
    Wasn't the wife played by his real wife?
    I find it interesting that Mrs. Walton is credited as Helen Riaume (with no IMDb link). This appears to have been the same Helen Riaume who is credited elsewhere as "Mrs. Tyrone Power," and was Tyrone Power Sr.'s wife until the same year this was released. The content of this film is unusual enough, and having a married couple playing the leads and not credited as such adds to the interest.

    In particular, the content was of a controversial nature in 1916, and is even more so today, with the sides reversed. The topic of abortion (called simply "birth control" in this movie) was not one that was raised often in films anyway, and moral guardians would have hesitated to let a movie through that favored the practice. The climate of Hollywood being what it is today, there might be no legal impediment to making a similarly anti-abortion film, but it would certainly be frowned upon, and perhaps de facto blacklisted.
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    • Jul 31, 2005

    Details

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    • Release date
      • May 1916 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • None
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Illborn
    • Filming locations
      • Universal Studios Hollywood - 1000 Universal Studios Blvd, Universal City, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Lois Weber Productions
      • Universal Film Manufacturing Company
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 2 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Silent
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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