RADIUM GIRLS MOVIE YOU TUBE SERIES

“Curses are real if you desecrate the dead.” When the Consumer’s League finally lets them in on the “secret,” a request is made to exhume the oldest sister, Mary, also a former employee. The company’s “doctor” diagnoses syphilis, yet Josephine is a virgin.

RADIUM GIRLS MOVIE YOU TUBE SERIES

Repeatedly told the paint is safe, Bessie isn’t concerned until her sister suffers a series of ailments. To get a fine point on their brush, painters use their lips. I give the Netflix offering 4.0 Gavels and it receives a 74% Rotten Tomatoes rating with a 6.2/10 IMDb score.Īt the American Radium plant in Orange, New Jersey, seventeen-year old Bessie Cavallo and her older sister, Josephine, paint watch dials for one cent each. Ignoring the filler, Radium Girls provides a compelling story, one that needed telling. Against this backdrop, fictional Bessie Cavallo rises up against the mighty corporation and swats it down. It will take years to establish clear legal precedents and radium safety standards.

Yet, during the 1920’s, it was not unusual to proclaim the health benefits of radium and related products. Nothing good comes from ingesting radium.

Much like Apollo 13, the viewer knows what is about to happen. Informed males took precautions against radium poisoning allowing unsuspecting women to believe the paint safe. Why then did the writers feel it necessary to change the names of those involved? Still, although minor facts are altered, it appears the basic story of the Radium Girls is factual.

Corporate misdeeds, undisclosed dangers, and outright fabrications are nothing new in America. Make way for Bessie Cavallo and the Radium Girls.

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