1950s

All my babies, a midwife's own story (1952): VC 6237
A training film for midwives made in Albany, Georgia. Shows in detail a complete delivery and demonstrates the approved procedures to be used by the midwife before, during, and after delivery. Follows an Afro-American midwife in her work providing care to poor black expectant women with various cases under both favorable and unfavorable circumstances. For professional audiences.
The Damned Don't Cry! (1950): DVD 4400
Ethel Whitehead learns there's only one way for a woman to survive in a man's world: be as tempting as a cupcake and as tough as a 75-cent steak. Ethel moves from the wrong side of the tracks to a mobster's mansion in high society one man at a time. Some of those men love her. Some use her. And one, a high-rolling racketeer, abuses her. When the racketeer murders his rival in Ethel's swanky living room, she flees a sure murder rap, right back to the poverty she thought she had escaped. And this time there may not be a man to pick up the pieces of her shattered life.
Pat & Mike (1952): DVD 1208
A woman athlete of enormous promise in the worlds of both tennis and golf is pursued by a shady promoter, who hopes to make her famous and make some money in the process.
Ruby Gentry (1952): DVD on order
Ruby is a tempestuous girl who lives with her family in the southern swampland. When her heart is broken by a local 'refined' man, she is picked up on the rebound by a local businessman. Now she is using his money to ruin the whole town.
Women on the March (1958): MP C54 LSC (16mm; request from Library Service Center)
A documentary in two parts. Describes the suffragette movement.

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