Little attention is paid to the vernacular or physicality of the period. Low-budget period pieces face the formidable challenge of making the time and place feel immediate “Radium” isn’t helped by the filmmakers’ habit of interspersing archival footage they can’t quite match with new digitally “aged” shots featuring their characters. However, as with “Call to Spy,” there’s a lack of texture and experiential quality to “Radium Girls.” Co-director Lydia Dean Pilcher again shows an eye for intriguing historical material (she also directed this year’s “A Call to Spy”). A romantic subplot is thrown in, with questionable necessity. Despite this dramatic license, the film lurches toward cliché, with surprise witnesses and evidence sprung on the other side in the courtroom. “Radium Girls”: Based on a true story, women working in a factory using radium in the 1920s fall ill their court battle would make history. Considering the company doctor’s humiliating diagnosis of Josephine’s sickness and the wealthy corporation’s resources, how can a group of impoverished legal novices prevail? Abby Quinn (“Little Women”) plays the other sister, Josephine, a star worker with enthusiasm for ancient Egypt and for her work - until she falls mysteriously ill as well. Her sister, Mary, has died before we meet the family, which does not suspect a lethal connection to her job. Joey King (“The Act”) plays Bessie, one of three sisters to work at the factory. Cover of book Radium girls with a greenish photo of women photo looks like it. When workers began to sicken and die in conspicuous numbers, a handful of the rest brought suit against the company, which had maintained that the substance was safe. They were even instructed to bring the brushes to a finer point by putting them between their lips. Workers, mostly women, were exposed to tremendous amounts of the radioactive material. The Radium Girls A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts Bestseller For fans of Hidden Figures, comes the incredible true. (here, “American Radium”) thrived by selling glow-in-the-dark watches with numbers hand-painted with actual radium.
The case had a lasting impact on workplace protections, though possibly not as enduring as the effect the radiation the women were exposed to would have on their bodies.įrom the 1910s through the ’20s, the United States Radium Corp. Though the title may sound like science fiction or some rock-and-roll romp, “Radium Girls” gets its name from the plaintiffs in a real court case about an American tragedy during the Progressive Era.
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