![]() So I think Radium Girls were really whistleblowers of their time. “All of those issues are really turning into something that really requires a major collective force to stand up to. Asking the question ‘Is it safe to go back to work?’ Economies are being collapsed. ![]() You think about the way science is being denied and governments are turning away from the idea of people suffering, falling sick and dying. You think of COVID and radium as elements we don’t know everything about or they didn’t know everything about radium at the time. Bessie and the Radium Girls decide to take on American Radium. “I would say in the COVID crisis, there’s so many parallels, it’s really haunting. Abby Quinn (Mad About You reboot, Little Women) as Bessie and Jo Cavallo, Radium. ![]() “When we were making the movie, we were thinking of events such as the Water Crisis in Flint, Michigan, or the way people talk about holding a cell phone up to your brain for hours on end. The significance of “The Radium Girls” being released in 2020: When Jo loses a tooth, Bessies world is turned upside down as a mystery slowly unravels. Heavily relying on the strength of the original story. Based on true events, Radium Girls follows teen sisters, Bessie and Jo Cavallo, who dream of Hollywood and Egyptian pyramids as they paint luminous watch dials at the American Radium factory in New Jersey. From the moment the story swerves to a courtroom, Radium Girls develops a sorely needed pace. Once Jo’s diagnosis of radium poisoning is confirmed by a doctor, investigations begin. Indeed it did prove that there was no syphilis, she died of radium poisoning.” Spotting a pattern in illnesses fallen upon workers of the American Radium factory, Bessie seeks legal help. “When they get home that night, they decide that it’s ultimately something that they have to do. And when the girls came to meet Catherine Riley, who was head of the National Consumers League in New Jersey, she suggested that the only real way to prove that radium poisoning was happening was to exhume a body and the girls were very disturbed by this idea. In real life, there were two sisters who had a third older sister who had died reportedly of syphilis. “As said in the film, syphilis is a diagnosis that not many would want to talk about, and that is actually how the radium poisoning was proven. Why the company’s doctor diagnosed the sick women with syphilis: The whole story is a true story and the court case that the girls ultimately mounted against the company is a notorious case that is still used today in arguing cases of toxic chemical litigation.” Radium,’ and we changed the name slightly. The true story behind the “American Radium” factory court case: 12 and it will be available for streaming later this year. It’s currently showing at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema through Nov. The film is based on true events of how a group of women discovered that their employers were deliberately withholding information about the dangers of the element.
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