Shoes
About Shoes
Eva Mayer earns five dollars a week at a five-and-dime and keeps her parents and three sisters, because her father will not work. Her shoes are through. She pads them with cardboard. She sleeps with the cabaret singer Charlie for the price of a new pair. The day she buys them, her father has found a job.
Cast & crew
More about Shoes
Lois Weber directed, wrote, and produced with Phillips Smalley, from Stella Wynne Herron's story Shoes, which Herron drew from Jane Addams. Bluebird Photoplays made it. Universal released it on June 26, 1916, in five reels. Mary MacLaren plays Eva. Harry Griffith plays the father. Mattie Witting the mother. William V. Mong plays Charlie. Jessie Arnold plays the coworker Lil. Lina Basquette is an uncredited sister. Stephen S. Norton, King D. Gray, and Allen G. Siegler photographed.
Themes
Look
Norton, Gray, and Siegler photographed the store, the cardboard soles, and the cabaret.
Preservation
Restored by the EYE Film Institute Netherlands, 2008–2011. Named to the National Film Registry in 2014.
Notes
- The wage on screen is five dollars a week.
- The new shoes and the father's job arrive the same day.
- The EYE Film Institute Netherlands held the print and restored it between 2008 and 2011.
- The disc score is by Donald Sosin and Mimi Rabson, with commentary by Shelley Stamp.
- Named to the National Film Registry in 2014.
- A copy is on the Internet Archive as silent-shoes.
Awards
- National Film Registry (2014)
Scenes
- Eva fits cardboard into the holes.
- She comes home in new shoes on the day her father gets work.
Influenced by
- Stella Wynne Herron's story Shoes
- Jane Addams
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-shoes)
- EYE Film Institute Netherlands
