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title: 'Votes for Women (1912)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Hal Reid'
released: '1912-01-01'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/votes-for-women-1912'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235000/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Votes for Women (1912)

1912 · United States


## Synopsis

Votes for Women is a 1912 American silent melodrama film directed by Hal Reid. It was produced by Reliance Film Company in partnership with the National American Woman Suffrage Association and was written by suffragists Mary Ware Dennett, Harriet Laidlaw, and Frances Maule Bjorkman. The film starred Edgena De Lespine, and featured cameos by prominent suffragists, including Anna Howard Shaw, Jane Addams, and Inez Milholland, and incorporated documentary footage of a women's suffrage parade in New York City. It was named by historian Kevin Brownlow as “the first important suffrage film.”

## Credits

- **Director:** [Hal Reid](https://cinepixo.com/people/hal-reid)
- **Screenplay:** [Frances Maule Bjorkman](https://cinepixo.com/people/frances-maule-bjorkman)

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