Her Bitter Cup [SEP] director
Her Bitter Cup
Her Bitter Cup (alternate title A Heart's Crucible) is a 1916 American silent film directed by Cleo Madison. One of only two feature-length films directed by Madison, she also played the leading role, a fervent labor organizer who uses drastic methods to finance her cause of improving the miserable lot of the workers in a factory.
The film is presumed lost.
Synopsis.
Factory worker Rethna (Madison) comes from an impoverished background. Her "raison d'être" is to improve
established a name for herself as an actress with performances in films such as "The Trey o' Hearts" (1914). She is also considered a pioneering female director with a number of shorts and two feature films, "A Soul Enslaved" (1916) and "Her Bitter Cup" (1916), to her credit.
She made several efforts to set up a production company before leaving show business in 1924. She died from a heart-attack in 1964 at the age of 80.
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