Review of Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl

I always wish I could have seen the Broadway play starring Mae West, but this is good anyway. The story is a parody of the many 'doomed flower-seller' stories that made people cry-- for good reason too-- at the turn of the century and thru the 20's. Life really was frightening for young women all alone-- possibly in a new country or friendless in a strange city, who worked at factory jobs at starvation wages. But in the natural way of things, this genre of melodrama wore out.

That's when someone wrote BERTHA THE SEWING MACHINE GIRL and deliberately finished it off. The movie's very funny.