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  • Check out the new trailer for Radium Girls starring Joey King! Let us know what you think in the comments below.
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    US Release Date: April 3, 2020
    Starring: Joey King
    Directed By: Lydia Dean Pilcher & Ginny Mohler
    Synopsis: In the 1920s a group of factory workers advocate for safer work conditions after some of their colleagues become ill from radium exposure.
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  • @carlystorrer8272
    @carlystorrer8272 4 роки тому +17250

    One of the worst things about this story is that for most of the girls who died, US Radium bribed coroners to list the cause of death as syphilis to ruin their reputations and credibility

    • @ozbullymorales1020
      @ozbullymorales1020 4 роки тому +829

      That’s so evil

    • @woodlandbabies
      @woodlandbabies 4 роки тому +124

      thats so awful :(

    • @ShannonL7
      @ShannonL7 4 роки тому +43

      WOW

    • @Gurlita85
      @Gurlita85 4 роки тому +104

      I knew quite a bit about this story but didn’t know this..This is horrible...poor girls

    • @me-jg2dl
      @me-jg2dl 4 роки тому +10

      Smh

  • @dumbfridge7576
    @dumbfridge7576 3 роки тому +3883

    I got an ad that said “do you want skin that lights up the room?” bad. timing.

  • @Nevermore-Nevermore
    @Nevermore-Nevermore 4 роки тому +4856

    One of the girls literally testified from her deathbed

    • @A_Strawberry
      @A_Strawberry 4 роки тому +28

      Yea

    • @ericmsandoval
      @ericmsandoval 4 роки тому +5

      Yea

    • @andreaprice3630
      @andreaprice3630 4 роки тому +71

      Yea. that was Catherine Donahue

    • @lyrajaneb
      @lyrajaneb 3 роки тому +9

      Sorry but what does it mean? Testified her deathbed? I’m not English sorry

    • @andreaprice3630
      @andreaprice3630 3 роки тому +174

      Lyra Jane testifying on the deathbed means that she was literally dying or close to death as she gave her testimony. In her case the entire court actually went to her house so that she could give her testimony. She died like 2 months later. She was an incredible woman.

  • @niamhcawley7862
    @niamhcawley7862 4 роки тому +5384

    My biggest problem is the "Radium is good for you, Everyone knows that" not only were they oblivious to the facts, they were told lies about it

    • @coppersandsprite
      @coppersandsprite 4 роки тому +293

      Everyone was misinformed about radium and then lied to once the dangers started to come to light. It was in chocolate, toothpaste, toys, nightlights, enemas, ED meds, cosmetics and more.

    • @boynek.4216
      @boynek.4216 4 роки тому +178

      @@coppersandsprite they were even putting it in the water...and the girls were putting it on their hair and skin because they thought it was healing.

    • @nisaryan9539
      @nisaryan9539 4 роки тому +141

      @@boynek.4216 They also did it because they thought it made them more attractive when they went out on dates, their hair would glow and it made them interesting and got lots of attention.

    • @NateHardman
      @NateHardman 4 роки тому +55

      Just like tape worms, cigarettes, trans fat, most every artificial sweetener, vaping, fad diets, thc, pain killers etc etc etc. Sheep get sheared.

    • @MsBhappy
      @MsBhappy 4 роки тому +56

      Even in the fifties and sixties people were misinformed. It played a role in my grandpa's death.

  • @veganbeth
    @veganbeth 4 роки тому +7530

    Important story. A company that knew its products were toxic and knowingly poisoned women and girls. And similar stories still happening with toxic chemicals dumped in water and present in building materials and personal are products!

    • @AdityaMahat
      @AdityaMahat 4 роки тому +43

      Search Dupont and PFOA.

    • @eprahs1
      @eprahs1 4 роки тому +53

      Flint Michigan knows all about it

    • @teenapaul373
      @teenapaul373 4 роки тому +31

      Nothing has changed now its vaccines

    • @TheHeartsGirl
      @TheHeartsGirl 4 роки тому +98

      Teena Paul what does this have to do with vaccines?!

    • @damiendevil333
      @damiendevil333 4 роки тому +78

      Teena Paul What?! No vaccines are credible and safe

  • @carlycrays2831
    @carlycrays2831 4 роки тому +4843

    Oh God, every time they lick that brush feels like a stab

    • @MsBhappy
      @MsBhappy 4 роки тому +136

      Licking of the paintbrushes decades after this caused my grandpa's death :( it should have been banned

    • @carlycrays2831
      @carlycrays2831 4 роки тому +5

      @@MsBhappy Really?

    • @MsBhappy
      @MsBhappy 4 роки тому +112

      @@carlycrays2831 he had a lifelong hobby of painting clocks. He developed a very rare type of thyroid cancer associated with radiation exposure. Thankfully, he still lived a decently long life. Still, I can't help but think I'd have had longer with him if he hadn't done so. I only knew him less than a decade of my life. I'm sure he had a few paint cans in use after it was banned in the sixties. I also think he knew the dangers but for some reason didn't think it would affect him for doing it once a week or so not every day like the radium girls.

    • @eventplanner461
      @eventplanner461 4 роки тому +108

      I know! Watching them lick their brush unknowingly of how toxic it was, just made me feel so uncomfortable. Licking those brushes was mostly more harmful than getting stabbed in a limb. This one woman's whole jaw fell off because of this company. It's so disturbing.

    • @KurraMiss
      @KurraMiss 3 роки тому +16

      Same, even if it hadn’t been radium a lot of other paints were highly toxic without it being well known containing things like cadmium and lead.

  • @nehaiscoolerat3am677
    @nehaiscoolerat3am677 3 роки тому +789

    "Radium is good for you, Everyone knows that" makes me wonder what we are absolutely oblivious to in this time. scaryyyyyyy man

    • @shrutisontakke9777
      @shrutisontakke9777 3 роки тому +5

      It's what they were told. That's what money minded bizmen do.b

    • @salinakhan-razzaq9614
      @salinakhan-razzaq9614 2 роки тому +48

      Vaccines

    • @lauriensnijers2322
      @lauriensnijers2322 2 роки тому +28

      It's makes me wonder what are we oblivious about now and will be discovered in a 100 years

    • @limelime9377
      @limelime9377 2 роки тому +70

      In 100 years they will look back on all the plastic feed that goes into cows and antibiotics used for chicken farms, BPA from water bottles, preservatives to make food last longer, it will be looked at as mercury and the future people will wonder why would we feed our people this

    • @moigjoid260
      @moigjoid260 2 роки тому +10

      @@salinakhan-razzaq9614 ugh

  • @Princesspuffer
    @Princesspuffer 4 роки тому +2254

    To this day their remaining bones are radioactive. The Radium Girls were featured in the documentary The Poisoner's Handbook.

    • @ayameisastar
      @ayameisastar 4 роки тому +9

      That’s a great book. Highly recommended

    • @itskindyl
      @itskindyl 4 роки тому +109

      They also would literally glow, like glow in the dark. The Radium Girls were walking glow sticks. Radium was like Botox and fillers back then. All the rich people used radium in their beauty treatments. Some would have their teeth painted with radium so their smile would be brighter. It’s insane to even think about that today.

    • @actuallyNo...
      @actuallyNo... 4 роки тому +74

      Yes. They have to be buried in triple lead-lined coffins, & many were taken Out to for the lead coffins to be put inside lead vaults before re-burying them again as an extra measure, decades ago.

    • @TheAmazingJimmy
      @TheAmazingJimmy 4 роки тому +1

      @@itskindyl Bullshit.

    • @TheAmazingJimmy
      @TheAmazingJimmy 4 роки тому

      @@actuallyNo... Bullshit.

  • @shilde
    @shilde 4 роки тому +4931

    Knowing what happened to these young women angers me so much. Makes me also think of what kind of things are we exposing ourselves to currently that we’ll later find out are fatal?!?!

    • @jaime-leetowndrow2372
      @jaime-leetowndrow2372 4 роки тому +83

      Sequoyah Hilderbrand wi-fi

    • @shilde
      @shilde 4 роки тому +120

      Jaime-lee Towndrow :: 5G! No doubt!

    • @tsundere62
      @tsundere62 4 роки тому +129

      non-stick skillets.

    • @lajoswinkler
      @lajoswinkler 4 роки тому +231

      @@shilde There is no evidence for that. For radium, there was evidence, but it was corruption that was stopping the law from working. Same with tobacco in USA. It was a known carcinogen. Some food dyes, again remain in use in USA, and are banned elsewhere.
      You're looking into conspiracy bullshit and you obviously know nothing about radiowaves, yet you ignore the known stuff.

    • @Sum.Mer444
      @Sum.Mer444 4 роки тому +50

      @@lajoswinkler Non ionising radiation is still dangerous- oxidative stress has been proven. Tobacco was also sold as healthful.

  • @laurenconrad1799
    @laurenconrad1799 4 роки тому +8072

    Joey King really impresses me. I know she’s been in a hundred Netflix teen rom coms and a few Disney channel shows in her younger years, but between this and The Act, she’s also making it clear that she’s intent on doing serious movies with complex, fascinating characters.

    • @ednamode2334
      @ednamode2334 4 роки тому +41

      Lauren Conrad name more than like 5 teen rom coms she’s in

    • @alexan2821
      @alexan2821 4 роки тому +132

      Honestly good for her for breaking out of her disney shell by taking on challenging roles rather than taking on scandals

    • @sumeya1923
      @sumeya1923 4 роки тому +12

      very talented girl!

    • @raygeneenglish9484
      @raygeneenglish9484 4 роки тому +38

      She’s only in two Netflix Rom coms and one of which hasn’t even came out yet

    • @MysteriousDrella
      @MysteriousDrella 4 роки тому +11

      She reminds me of the actress in The Craft, who played Nancy. XD

  • @rachelwaldner2054
    @rachelwaldner2054 3 роки тому +218

    The sad part about all this is when Grace Fryer and the others first started going to court they weren't taken seriously until the first male worker died

  • @gsundi9374
    @gsundi9374 4 роки тому +1359

    I remember doing a presentation about the effects of radiation on humans and the environment in ninth grade and these women were a central part of it, but nobody including my teacher ever heard of them. It’s important to have a movie like this to make their story well known.

    • @noahsawyer7155
      @noahsawyer7155 4 роки тому +3

      Nope Never the only thing there taught in is medical studies for radiation poisoning and it’s effects

    • @louvre3785
      @louvre3785 4 роки тому +22

      I literally just heard about the Radium girls 5 days ago and finished reading the book today, it's really saddening how their lives are labeled as "the forgotten story of radium girls"

    • @caveater
      @caveater 2 роки тому +1

      Really? I heard about it briefly at some museum or something when I was like 6. But obviously I can’t remember it that well since I was 6 and didn’t understand it 😅

    • @NameName-yj7lp
      @NameName-yj7lp 2 роки тому +2

      I just found out, I wasn’t even looking them up. Eben byers jaw was what I came for and this trailer just introduced me

    • @ionhunter
      @ionhunter 2 роки тому

      Raduin is the environment in which we live in, it's not man made.

  • @TheRazorTongue
    @TheRazorTongue 4 роки тому +3641

    This is the lawsuit that led to the creation of OSHA.

  • @marydye5248
    @marydye5248 4 роки тому +1120

    My father worked for US Radium from age of 20's- 70's and I have and many other class mates who parents worked of lived by the plant and have autoimmune disease. The plant is now EPA clean up. About damn time a movie was made!

    • @xkatjejonise5735
      @xkatjejonise5735 3 роки тому +12

      They dont care about the after effects or the health issues... everything is about money and power... i myself have autoimmune disease and other health issues too. most of it probably because of vaccinations but other health issues many people have is also because of other chemically induced products and food (water) we get these days.

    • @pampamela9885
      @pampamela9885 2 роки тому +2

      @@xkatjejonise5735 problemas por causa de vacinas???? Aí é demais.

    • @avii8793
      @avii8793 Рік тому +2

      @@pampamela9885 it's true. Vaccines have a lot of side effects.. especially the modern ones

  • @eosofspades_357
    @eosofspades_357 3 роки тому +369

    Fact: The first girl to die from radium poisoning was so afflicted, the doctor lifted her jaw right out of her face.

    • @kysu1556
      @kysu1556 2 роки тому +70

      @@hearts444nyyyy and i heard one died rotting alive and she saw her jaw fall off idk if its true i just heard it on a channel talking about it

    • @gjeraldh2989
      @gjeraldh2989 2 роки тому +9

      @@mjoyg5445 this would never have happened if the doctors at the time didnt have such low morals. They were all bribed to make false diagnoses. Mfs literally let a 112 people die while pretending they were saving lives.

    • @johnknee1537
      @johnknee1537 2 роки тому +4

      @@gjeraldh2989 could be still happening with us having to take the vaccines or else.

    • @jr.terulober9917
      @jr.terulober9917 2 роки тому +5

      If I'm not mistaken, the young lady's name was Amelia Mollie Maggia.

    • @courtneylee5633
      @courtneylee5633 2 роки тому

      @@johnknee1537 all the cell phones!

  • @jiujitsu202
    @jiujitsu202 3 роки тому +130

    The dial workers used to paint themselves with the luminescent paint for fun, and before leaving work on Friday evenings they would sprinkle the luminous powder on their dresses so when they attended the parties that night they would literally be glowing and would be the envy of the rest of the females in attendance. Crazy! The book was amazing, I heard about it on a podcast and flew through it in a couple days, I’m sure this movie or series will be great too.

  • @rambocortez
    @rambocortez 4 роки тому +2468

    The way the women were getting poisoned was from putting their paint brushes back in their mouths after they had put it into the paint. Just in case if anyone was confused on how they were getting poisoned. I had to look it up because I didn’t know.

    • @oodlez_uv_doodlez
      @oodlez_uv_doodlez 4 роки тому +439

      Also, they were painting their nails with it and adding it to their cosmetics for the glowy effect.

    • @amandagates7634
      @amandagates7634 4 роки тому +372

      Ya. They had to keep the brush to a point. Precision!! The letters had to be absolutely perfect like they were printed on. You needed to have the brush at a point to do that.

    • @rambocortez
      @rambocortez 4 роки тому +18

      Nikkie thank you! I didn’t know that. (:

    • @villamiles
      @villamiles 4 роки тому +283

      And they wore dance clothes to work, that way the glow would be in her dresses too and they would look beautiful dancing with their lovers. Some says that the brushes in their mouths was a rule inside the company in order to prevent the waste of radium for using water in a glass lo clean it.

    • @rambocortez
      @rambocortez 4 роки тому +10

      Angel Villamiles Yea I read that somewhere too

  • @SynnJynn
    @SynnJynn 4 роки тому +640

    These girls wore the radium when they went out to dance. So horrible that they weren't told of the dangers.

    • @saimecoban5213
      @saimecoban5213 3 роки тому +1

      Ol lkkjjhhqmkkk(9poo9 in ikimizde hgfffy

  • @leapofsren2159
    @leapofsren2159 4 роки тому +230

    I did an 8 page paper on the history of toxicology and when I say that the radium girls story shook me to the bottom of my high school core..... I cant express how excited and happy I am to see this story finally getting a proper telling on the big screen. I want to cry for some reason

    • @kat35lulu88
      @kat35lulu88 2 роки тому +1

      Hope you got an A+ on that paper!!!!

    • @maryjanehansen7947
      @maryjanehansen7947 Рік тому

      lol i just heard about this. the details literally made me nauseous

    • @mind-of-neo
      @mind-of-neo Рік тому +1

      you did an 8 page paper on toxicology as a high schooler??

  • @cooper1507
    @cooper1507 4 роки тому +251

    Fun fact American Radium never admitted fault. Simply just a payout.

    • @bunnyday1473
      @bunnyday1473 4 роки тому +19

      They never paid the payout either :/

  • @lillost
    @lillost 4 роки тому +579

    Companies today are still putting their workers in danger and swearing everything is fine. Human decency has never existed... not when there’s a profit to be made....

    • @kuazexin
      @kuazexin 3 роки тому +7

      @Sam Lutfi Tell that to Big pharma and the Thalidomide cases

    • @sarahturner4148
      @sarahturner4148 3 роки тому +16

      @Sam Lutfi not true at all. There isn't enough regulation. Look at Amazon for example. SO many of their workers are trying to speak up about poor working conditions and blatant danger and are being silenced.

    • @siddharth2796
      @siddharth2796 3 роки тому

      @@sarahturner4148 really

    • @AJourneyToEternity412
      @AJourneyToEternity412 3 роки тому

      Like with Beryllium, which is both a carcinogen and a mutagen. The research whether sarcoidosis is related to working with Beryllium is still ongoing....

    • @prettypinksunshines
      @prettypinksunshines 3 роки тому

      That’s corporate America for ya

  • @ccharles848
    @ccharles848 4 роки тому +2408

    We need more movies like these. Real heroes not the comic book type.

    • @tamirving1299
      @tamirving1299 4 роки тому +225

      Or we can just have the best of both worlds and enjoy what genre we like

    • @Silverstreamhomecrafts
      @Silverstreamhomecrafts 4 роки тому +110

      We can have both you know

    • @mymidgetbae184
      @mymidgetbae184 4 роки тому +77

      What's wrong with those comic book heroes? They're fun, and we can have these at the same time

    • @Ferrist1
      @Ferrist1 4 роки тому +77

      Comic superheroes were created to inspire real life heroes during dark times.

    • @thelittleredhairedgirlfrom6527
      @thelittleredhairedgirlfrom6527 4 роки тому +28

      Why not both?

  • @indigolayne
    @indigolayne 2 роки тому +118

    I was just in a stage production of Radium Girls and it was probably one of the most difficult shows I have ever been in. Capturing these poor girls suffering. This story is truly so moving and disturbing. I highly recommend looking into it.

    • @Acorn_lover
      @Acorn_lover Рік тому

      Im abt to be in one! I play Kathryn!!

    • @kai.raio.
      @kai.raio. 6 місяців тому

      @@Acorn_loversame!!

  • @personman247
    @personman247 4 роки тому +134

    God, I recognized the term “Radium Girls” and knew which way the trailer was headed despite the cheerful
    beginning. The story is just a horrible thing to have heard of, but I’m glad that it will be brought back into the eyes of the public.

  • @erynnoli1609
    @erynnoli1609 4 роки тому +5635

    Is Joey king ever going to be able to grow all of her hair back out without getting another job that keeps it short

    • @ThemedNumber02
      @ThemedNumber02 4 роки тому +236

      Eryn Noli it looks like a she’s wearing a wig in this one though lol

    • @lolam.9291
      @lolam.9291 4 роки тому +79

      Seriously? She could always wear extensions or a wig.

    • @Ebunoluwa13
      @Ebunoluwa13 4 роки тому +46

      Why assume it's her real hair that she chopped, nobody has time for that cause it takes months to grow back to certain lengths

    • @ocencat9851
      @ocencat9851 4 роки тому +98

      @@Ebunoluwa13 wdym? She literally shaved her head for a role in The Act

    • @kassidyquintessaamaryllis6496
      @kassidyquintessaamaryllis6496 4 роки тому +60

      My fave hairstyle is short on her. Maybe she likes it. Shes empowering

  • @AlexS-oj8qf
    @AlexS-oj8qf 4 роки тому +506

    Here is a Lesson for everyone, never trust any company, corporation, or any business compeltely, they get revenues not because they do honest work. They will cut as much corners as they could. Always support anyone speaking out against any corporation, because they're always the ones ended up being in the right side of history, while companies are the bad guy, as history has revealed.

    • @AlexS-oj8qf
      @AlexS-oj8qf 4 роки тому +37

      @Nick Smith Clearly someone romanticized Captialism.

    • @leilaniz5909
      @leilaniz5909 4 роки тому +10

      @Claire this only proves that we need to fix our justice system so that corporations have more to lose and are forced to be accountable, not that the idea that becoming successful enough to train others your craft, expand, and increase profit is bad. We shouldn't take it down from the ground up, we'd only affect the medium sized businesses that are already vulnerable to jeff bezos. Gotta go top down, bring the court to our side.

    • @dteachout147
      @dteachout147 4 роки тому +3

      k... ALWAYS is a stupid thing to say, there is very rarely ever an ALWAYS... therefore business men are not ALWAYS wrong, and consequently ppl who attack them are not ALWAYS right

    • @emmaphilo4049
      @emmaphilo4049 4 роки тому +14

      @Nick Smith he is righ though. In 90% of case because ok it's not all bad. But he is right. No one is looking out for us and least of all companies.

    • @sloomas731
      @sloomas731 4 роки тому +6

      The lack of unionization, large numbers of desperate people, and loose safety regulations are why factories have moved to the South. It is the next best thing to the Third World and we have the injuries and deaths to prove it.

  • @della8933
    @della8933 4 роки тому +40

    isn't it so telling that so many of us here have only found out about this story now? super happy they are showing women's history for once!

  • @IngridBlanck
    @IngridBlanck 3 роки тому +46

    I'm really looking forward to watch this movie. The discovery of Radium by Marie Curie was such an important fact in History and its use in radiotherapy to cure tumors is revolutionary, but as anything that involves radiation, it has to be managed with care. We can't even blame society in general because only scientists and very few people understood the bad effects of Radium and this type of information wasn't widely spread back then. Most bad things were sadly discovered through tragedies like this one and as sad as it is, we owe these girls a lot for showing what radiation can do to our bodies.

  • @marvel096
    @marvel096 4 роки тому +741

    Omg the real is story is heartbreaking. I didn’t know they’re gonna do a movie about it. Joey King is fantastic I’m glad to see her star in it

    • @nicolemoncion334
      @nicolemoncion334 4 роки тому

      marvel096 do they win at the end? Or everything gets cover up?

    • @kpounders7437
      @kpounders7437 4 роки тому +1

      This was a play first.

    • @marvel096
      @marvel096 4 роки тому +20

      Nicole Moncion some of them won but others didn’t. The sad thing is that the trials took so long that the radiation killed many of them before the could even get a penny for all the damages 😞

    • @Ebunoluwa13
      @Ebunoluwa13 4 роки тому +5

      @@marvel096 and yet somehow their deaths weren't proof of the case the radium girls were fighting right? The public can be so stupid sometimes

    • @jordanschafer4933
      @jordanschafer4933 4 роки тому +3

      Ebunoluwa13 American Radium bribed coroners to write off many of their deaths as being caused by syphilis to ruin the reputation and credibility.

  • @Thisisjohnbax
    @Thisisjohnbax 4 роки тому +1598

    So many cover ups, so much "research" that is biased. Money talks.

    • @cacampbell3654
      @cacampbell3654 4 роки тому +22

      ThisisJohanna: No one may stop such corruption unless we, who consider it unethical, embittering, destructive, demoralizing, stop. it.

    • @shadetreader
      @shadetreader 4 роки тому +24

      That's what capitalism always does-- oil companies have known for several decades that burning fossil fuels would devastate the planet, so they bought more politicians and bought pundits to tell us to vote for those politicians.

    • @JP-sm4cs
      @JP-sm4cs 4 роки тому +2

      @@shadetreader It's what centralisation does. To much responsibility in the hand of two few, capitalism just acts as a lubricant for an outdated system.

    • @mdkashem7744
      @mdkashem7744 4 роки тому

      we s

  • @socialless9034
    @socialless9034 4 роки тому +25

    i’ve been in a production of a play called radium girls. i played the role of grace fryer. this story deserves to be told and i am so glad it’s being brought back.

  • @donnakissinger1694
    @donnakissinger1694 4 роки тому +83

    They performed this play at my granddaughter’s school this last fall. She played Grace Fryer and it was intense, sad and awesome all at the same time. Can’t wait for the movie just hope they it do it justice. The book is an absolute must read naturally it goes into more detail than what they can put in a movie. These GIRLS and that’s what the were, some as young as 14 suffered horrendously with this poisoning before they died, and it was for the most part a slow agonizing death.

  • @ireneskitsa2500
    @ireneskitsa2500 4 роки тому +263

    The 'Golden Globe Nominee: Joey King' gives me so much joy because she has come so far!

    • @pearlkelly6337
      @pearlkelly6337 Рік тому

      shes great isnt she, i first watche her in the act which is a great watch

  • @thelaughingtiger146
    @thelaughingtiger146 4 роки тому +236

    This is going to be a heartbreaking movie. Bring xtra tissues.

    • @KurraMiss
      @KurraMiss 3 роки тому +2

      Agreed, I teared up just watching the trailer knowing the story of the radium girls

    • @BeanieScooter
      @BeanieScooter 3 роки тому +2

      The movie couldn't possibly be as horrific as their actual stories.

    • @thelaughingtiger146
      @thelaughingtiger146 3 роки тому

      @@BeanieScooter I beg to differ. Seeing the pain and suffering of those poor girls and those that loved them. The story made me weep, seeing it would have me sobbing.

    • @BeanieScooter
      @BeanieScooter 3 роки тому

      @@thelaughingtiger146 Actors portraying the actual women, though. I'm sure the movie will make me cry, as did the book.

    • @thelaughingtiger146
      @thelaughingtiger146 3 роки тому

      @@BeanieScooter 🌝

  • @annaburgooo
    @annaburgooo 4 роки тому +24

    I was in my school’s production of radium girls - an incredible, heartbreaking story. Very cool to see this bit of history being adapted into a film

  • @emmajochum8682
    @emmajochum8682 4 роки тому +132

    I literally just finished reading the book Radium Girls.... And I don't know, this trailer is bugging me. Granted I read the first part several months ago and finished it after a hiatus just this last week... But the movie seems to be lacking something.
    Like what happened to those women was terrifically horrifying and gruesome. Everyone in this looks too pretty... Even the ones who are supposed to be dissolving from the inside out from radiation poisoning. And the whole one voice crying out against the big company seems to be played up with raids and corporate intimidation. And I get that because of cinema. But it just bothers me that they feel the need to do this when the reality is fascinating enough. The lying, blocking, delaying, and withholding of the radium companies is fascinating and angering enough. Trust me, if you read the book, you'd probably agree that it doesn't need the 'cinematic push' to make the bad guys more cartoonishly evil. They were doing it all on their own.
    I guess I'm taking the long route to say that this movie seems to be more style over substance, when the reality of what actually happened is so much more interesting than what this film seems to offer... But hey, it's not out yet, so I'll hold back on fully judging it until I actually see it.

    • @CrystalVXP
      @CrystalVXP 4 роки тому +21

      They can't have certain images in trailers without marketing it as a red branded trailer, hopefully they do show the full extent of what those poor girls went through.

    • @raerae6422
      @raerae6422 4 роки тому +3

      Well said!
      Never trust a Hollywood “true story”

    • @emmajochum8682
      @emmajochum8682 4 роки тому +6

      @Alita Hargrove it's The Radium Girls by Kate Moore !!! I hope you enjoy it. It's a horrifyingly interesting read

    • @kiru86
      @kiru86 4 роки тому +1

      White Wood Asmr agreed!

    • @womenfrom0202
      @womenfrom0202 4 роки тому +3

      White Wood Asmr i absolutely agree, finished the audio book read by the author. It’s such a horrific story it indeed does note need any lines to the actual history.

  • @KHaigh9531
    @KHaigh9531 4 роки тому +19

    I read the story of these brave women and their horrific injuries which lead to death in many cases. Their struggle for recognition and compensation was long and hard. We have indeed not learnt anything in 100 years, money still talks louder than human rights. Glad their story will come to a wider audience and will inspire anyone who is being bullied, harrassed or mistreated at work.

  • @evegoldhallow1203
    @evegoldhallow1203 4 роки тому +282

    I literally found out about the Radium Girls just a few weeks ago and now I find out that they made a movie about them

    • @ms42662
      @ms42662 4 роки тому +6

      Was it from the podcast my favourite murder?!?! 😆

    • @rudibarron1204
      @rudibarron1204 4 роки тому

      @@ms42662 No, a UA-cam channel Joe Scott

    • @Sugaraf
      @Sugaraf 4 роки тому +1

      @@ms42662 I heard about it in school and didn't really pay any mind until I heard it again on MFM. I was appalled and started reading up on it on my own...its heartbreaking!! Especially knowing that the company bribed coroners to put down syphilis as the cause of death...makes me so mad!!

    • @bubbly990
      @bubbly990 4 роки тому +2

      The book is horrifying and excellently written

    • @kumidigital
      @kumidigital 4 роки тому

      I literally just found out about it right now, was watching a video on them when this popped up in the recommendations xD

  • @snagfree
    @snagfree 3 роки тому +17

    I just finished reading "The Radium Girls" book not knowing there was a new movie depicting their story. I hope this is more graphic than the trailer is showing. The book details more than I just watched. Those girls really suffered.

  • @jpipolagunas
    @jpipolagunas 4 роки тому +67

    If this movie interests you, you should also check out the movie Dark Waters or documentary The Devil We Know. Both are about the chemical company Dupont and how they knowingly poisoned the world population

    • @EmyN
      @EmyN 4 роки тому

      You know where is available?

    • @jpipolagunas
      @jpipolagunas 4 роки тому +1

      @@EmyN the documentary is on Netflix. The movie I don't believe has arrived on any streaming service

    • @krisweber1336
      @krisweber1336 4 роки тому

      @Emily Norris it’s available to rent on amazon prime!

    • @xkatjejonise5735
      @xkatjejonise5735 3 роки тому

      omg, but they actually still are :O

  • @charlotteziggy8353
    @charlotteziggy8353 4 роки тому +76

    Was wondering when their sad tale would be made into a movie. The radium decimated their bodies.

  • @maryvalentyne2553
    @maryvalentyne2553 4 роки тому +283

    I was in this play in high school for our One Act competition and we won state 😇 it’s such a sad, tragic story tho :/

    • @cacampbell3654
      @cacampbell3654 4 роки тому +18

      Mary Valentyne: “Sad, tragic” stories must be told, told well, understood with great respect and care.
      I am a survivor of the Dalkon Shield who was so sick by the time the class action lawsuit happened that I couldn’t participate or ask anyone to advocate for me.
      Victimization for commercial purposes must become stigmatized globally.

    • @selenac3966
      @selenac3966 4 роки тому +4

      Mary Valentyne ah I did the play as well, I was grace. Such a moving story it will forever have my heart

    • @bigazzasian
      @bigazzasian 4 роки тому

      A lady person just commented seeing a play and I’m pretty sure it was the one you did! Small world

    • @benbloem94
      @benbloem94 4 роки тому

      @@selenac3966 I did the play too and it was boring as hell lmao. Great story, truly heartbreaking. Also not the best play for high schoolers to be taking on.

    • @ieshafluellen5846
      @ieshafluellen5846 4 роки тому +1

      I did this for One Act Play my senior year in high school too! The play was called “These Shining Lives”.

  • @FALCONRACING167
    @FALCONRACING167 4 роки тому +6

    PLEASE RELEASE THIS ALREADY!!! So intriguing , I’ve read everything there is about the subject , books articles even from the time period, every video on UA-cam. I need more!! Lol

  • @tremecabattle2418
    @tremecabattle2418 3 роки тому +9

    When she said radium is good for you it sent a chill down my spine

  • @elisejackson2854
    @elisejackson2854 4 роки тому +111

    i read a story based on this some years back with photos of the girls while they were sick in it. it was horrifying.

    • @phineasnigellus7394
      @phineasnigellus7394 4 роки тому +2

      Whats the book?

    • @elisejackson2854
      @elisejackson2854 4 роки тому +5

      @@phineasnigellus7394 i think it was the radium girls by kate moore.

    • @itskindyl
      @itskindyl 4 роки тому +1

      It’s also a play. My high school did a performance of it and it made me cry.

    • @elisejackson2854
      @elisejackson2854 4 роки тому +1

      @@itskindyl what i'm saying is it's based off of a true story. i know that folks probably do stuff off of it but just saying i read the book about it. life was way harder back then.

    • @phineasnigellus7394
      @phineasnigellus7394 4 роки тому +1

      @@elisejackson2854 ok thanks found it

  • @leighhuggins5030
    @leighhuggins5030 4 роки тому +31

    This is adapted from a theatrical play by D.W. Gregory, published in 2000. I saw it at Boston University in 2011 when my theater department did a production of it in the South End. It was heartbreaking then, I'm sure it will be heartbreaking now.

  • @roserenee9805
    @roserenee9805 4 роки тому +3

    I really hope this movie sheds the light on our past and does the history of this heartbreaking time justice. The trailer alone looks amazing so I hope it lives up to my expectations. And I’m grateful producers are finally shedding more light on this. May those beautiful souls who suffered from radium have peace 💕

  • @BrianCarnevaleB26
    @BrianCarnevaleB26 4 роки тому +33

    "Radium products were used for any ailment where lack of energy was seen to be the root cause -- from common fatigue to impotence,"
    Far from being a panacea, radium was deadly! It was a slow killer!
    When ingested, radium is particularly dangerous: Chemically, it behaves very much like calcium, Since the body uses calcium to make bone, ingested radium is mistaken for calcium and gets incorporated into bone. So the major health risk of ingesting radium is radiation-induced bone necrosis and bone cancers. How soon they develop depends upon the dose, but at the very high doses that the Radium Girls were exposed to it only took a few years.
    Moral of the story;Never trust the Government without doing your own research first!

    • @csillakaszas7285
      @csillakaszas7285 4 роки тому +8

      Doing your own research? lol
      Suppose, everyone should keep a couple dozen lab rats and replicate work conditions for, let's say, 5 years, before they would accept a job, which they very much need to be able to sustain themselves - and now their lab rats. Same thing with new food items, shampoos, cleaning products, electronic devices, building materials...etc
      Yes, you can google stuff now. No, that's not 'doing your own research'. At the end of the day, you will have to place your trust in someone/something.

    • @beaniepq
      @beaniepq 3 роки тому +4

      More like never trust greedy, unchecked corporations. At least the government responded by instating protections and regulatory agencies.

    • @Prachtoshsonu
      @Prachtoshsonu 2 роки тому

      Like corona?

  • @santiagohardy2728
    @santiagohardy2728 4 роки тому +53

    Years ago,
    I heard a story about the "raduim girls"
    per the show "Antiques Roadshow",
    when someone took one of those
    antique radium watches to be evaluated.
    From what i can recall,
    one of them told a story about one
    of the girls, who was going about her
    usual workday, when she pushed both
    of her legs on the stool's foot rest to
    adjust her sitting, both of her legs
    below her knees snapped in two.
    Such an AWFUL story.
    I'm glad their stories are being told
    through this compelling new film.

  • @annahill99
    @annahill99 4 роки тому +33

    I’m so glad this is getting released! It was actually made in 2018 and did small film festival circuits and then seemed to just completely fade into obscurity. I thought I was never gonna get to watch it so you can imagine my excitement when this video was in my recommendeds

    • @shantel6415
      @shantel6415 4 роки тому

      Anna Hill do you have any idea when the actual release date is?

  • @ayeshajumana2691
    @ayeshajumana2691 4 роки тому +5

    The Geiger counter went nuts when it was taken to a cemetery where a lot of the radium girls were buried. Some of them had to be buried in lead lined coffins.

  • @littlestdumpling.963
    @littlestdumpling.963 3 роки тому +13

    Netflix is upping their game and I'm here for it. Hell yes, we do need more films like these.

  • @kaylarambo6924
    @kaylarambo6924 4 роки тому +74

    God I remember seeing a One Act Play based on this story, and Holy damn. They won first place, the story and acting was beautiful.

    • @Mar-yp4lk
      @Mar-yp4lk 4 роки тому +32

      wow a girl just mentioned she was in the play and won state, her name in the comments is Mary Valentyne
      see if you can find it

    • @yolandievanwyk3230
      @yolandievanwyk3230 4 роки тому +7

      check out Mary Valentyne's comment she was in the play

  • @journeywithjavan
    @journeywithjavan 4 роки тому +85

    I staged managed this play in college. It’s heartbreaking and needs to be told. I’m glad this is coming out.

    • @shadetreader
      @shadetreader 4 роки тому +3

      Stage manager high-five!

    • @annaburgooo
      @annaburgooo 4 роки тому +3

      Stage Managers are incredible. Thank you!!!

    • @rebeccahoffman7188
      @rebeccahoffman7188 3 роки тому

      I did this play in high school my senior year. Every other play we'd put on was a comedy. During the production of this play, I felt heavier, seeing the story night after night (I did sound, so I watched the whole thing every time).

  • @karthikak8657
    @karthikak8657 3 роки тому +2

    This film has my heart ❤.. The actors and this story.... And the heartbreak and the way they portrayed the impact of the issue 🙏

  • @danielmorse6597
    @danielmorse6597 4 роки тому +1

    I am so glad the story is being told. Thank you. I have been there, talked to families and a survivor. Long ago. Thank you.

  • @peaceoglory
    @peaceoglory 4 роки тому +41

    I once watched a documentary about young people in today's China who work in tech device assembly dying from dangerous substances used to clean the electronic parts. This reminds me a lot of that story. So it's still happening.

  • @lamario295
    @lamario295 4 роки тому +350

    The crooked rich are at it again, where the hell is Bane

    • @AlexS-oj8qf
      @AlexS-oj8qf 4 роки тому

      The Rich? It's the Capitalistic Middle Class who exploit the lower class.

    • @StringerDCUO
      @StringerDCUO 4 роки тому +9

      @@AlexS-oj8qf lol no

    • @oliviakirby1409
      @oliviakirby1409 4 роки тому +1

      @@AlexS-oj8qf Oh Comrade, get a job.

    • @ohboilien
      @ohboilien 4 роки тому +9

      Alex Shuysky you do know that is the lie the upper rich tell us to stop us going after them?

    • @heyclementine5478
      @heyclementine5478 4 роки тому

      Ysi

  • @kaefleenjohn3590
    @kaefleenjohn3590 4 роки тому +2

    I love how joey takes up challenging roles ❤

  • @ScarletGinger
    @ScarletGinger 4 роки тому +3

    I read the book about them back in high school, I'm so glad they're making it into a movie. It's such an important part of history.

  • @nightgod473
    @nightgod473 4 роки тому +4

    I used to live in Ottawa, IL, one of the other cities with an American Radium plant. There were graves in the cemetery where workers were interred and spots on some of the sports fields where debris had been buried where snow wouldn't stick in the winters. It eventually got declared a Superfund site and cleaned up.

  • @ghost-ez2zn
    @ghost-ez2zn 4 роки тому +6

    I read the book. Tragic. And horrifying. My grandmother told me about these women years and years ago. She was always so glad she never worked there. I'm glad too.

  • @rhondamayfield6314
    @rhondamayfield6314 4 роки тому +4

    FINALLY their story is being told... one of the most heartbreaking stories I’ve ever learned about

  • @bschuler
    @bschuler 3 роки тому

    I saw a great old documentary about this when I was a teenager and it stuck with me for 30 plus years (used to have a link for it on UA-cam, but they removed it.. probably because of this movie). I think it is a story every person entering the workforce should know. Such a tragic story. Glad to see it is gaining attention once again via this movie and plays, etc..

  • @trinitytwo14992
    @trinitytwo14992 4 роки тому +66

    Corporations are still doing this in 2020, see Dupont Chemical- Democracy Now.

    • @Cassxowary
      @Cassxowary 4 роки тому +2

      K L and animal products and more

    • @coughpillbox748
      @coughpillbox748 4 роки тому +2

      See the flouride being pumped into our drinking water.

    • @cattyghostly7414
      @cattyghostly7414 4 роки тому

      @@Cassxowary animal products arent bad for humans.

    • @Cassxowary
      @Cassxowary 4 роки тому +2

      Jasper Ghostly oh, they are! Look it up! Not just the faecal matter, cancer, other diseases and pathogens, noxious drugs and chemicals, and worse, but also the hurt and other unhappiness, you take in, as well as being responsible for rapes, druggings, abuse, torture, agony, suffering, horrific slaughter in front of their loved ones, and destruction of all. Animal products are bad for all, and that’s just an increasingly undeniable fact.

    • @Cassxowary
      @Cassxowary 4 роки тому +2

      Moon Jar it’s called living and eating healthy and building up your immune system, and healing things the right ways (:

  • @zacharywood9416
    @zacharywood9416 4 роки тому +3

    I remember doing this play in high school and always thought it should be a movie! So glad to see it’s finally a movie, especially with Joey King 😃

  • @jackskellington4198
    @jackskellington4198 3 роки тому

    YES! I was waiting for a movie about this! I saw the stage production a couple years back at a theater festival and ever since then I was very interested in the story. Very compelling and sad story for the girls who were involved.

  • @melissai4798
    @melissai4798 3 роки тому +1

    I wanted to cry during this trailer. Heart breaking. Truly heart breaking what these girls went through.

  • @CakePOPBookBOX
    @CakePOPBookBOX 4 роки тому +3

    This was such a beautiful book and lesson in history and I cannot wait to see it brought back to life to illuminate the atrocities that occurred!!!

  • @sophiaoneal9081
    @sophiaoneal9081 4 роки тому +16

    heard about this story on My Favorite Murder a while ago - so glad they are making a movie about it! This story deserves to be told!

    • @itxy4283
      @itxy4283 4 роки тому +2

      Sophia O'Neal
      What was the name for the podcast episode?

    • @lilylynn4
      @lilylynn4 4 роки тому +1

      @@itxy4283 lick the clock, I think

    • @sophiaoneal9081
      @sophiaoneal9081 4 роки тому +1

      @@itxy4283 Episode 190 - Lick the Clock Enjoy!

    • @tabithaelliott6885
      @tabithaelliott6885 4 роки тому +1

      “This podcast will kill you” did an episode on them too!

  • @24hourgmtchannel64
    @24hourgmtchannel64 4 роки тому +1

    I live 35 miles east of Ottawa Illinois where this story happened. The torn down school which was converted into the Radium Dial Company in 1917 and was dismantled in the 80's and dumped at another site in Ottawa to avoid the cost of proper radioactive material disposal. Still to this day, there are posted "High Radiation" warning signs on the fenced in area where the debris was buried.

  • @jasmynes7651
    @jasmynes7651 4 роки тому +3

    I’M SO GLAD THERES FINALLY A MOVIE ABOUT THIS

  • @turishko
    @turishko 4 роки тому +32

    Joey king is working hard for that Oscar . 👏🏼

    • @bmasters1981
      @bmasters1981 3 роки тому

      And when and if she does take the Oscar, and UA-cam has the clip of her so taking, it'll be downloaded and put on a disc so I can relive it any time I want.

  • @itsnlee
    @itsnlee 4 роки тому +8

    Joey King was amazing in The Act. Hopefully we'll get to see her portray more complex characters in thought provoking films like this one.

    • @pearlkelly6337
      @pearlkelly6337 Рік тому

      i was about to say the same as well, she was great in the act, such a good watch

  • @danitzamaya2902
    @danitzamaya2902 4 роки тому +1

    I read this book for my history class last year. Such a good read, can’t wait to watch this.

  • @AmethystEyes
    @AmethystEyes 4 роки тому +7

    For everyone who is asking when is the movie coming out, this movie was supposed to come out in April 2020 but it is delayed because of the quarantine. It should be out once the quarantine is over.

  • @MegTheGem1
    @MegTheGem1 4 роки тому +5

    Joey has the perfect look for the period! I can't wait to see this.

  • @LiveAsDiva
    @LiveAsDiva 4 роки тому +3

    Love the finger waves

  • @jiujitsu202
    @jiujitsu202 3 роки тому +1

    The book was amazing, with every chapter you see the loss of grip the corporations start to have as the workers unite and stand up. At first it seems hopeless, until it doesn’t. Great book!

  • @is.a.bell.a8700
    @is.a.bell.a8700 3 роки тому +1

    Whewww boy, this is one of the topics I'm most obsessed with. I did a whole multi-page essay based on the Radium Girls for National History Day assignment. I read the majority of a book under the same name, it's fantastic. Might try to get it a library again and give it a re-read.

  • @asharachae
    @asharachae 4 роки тому +4

    I just found out about Radium Girls months ago from a Facebook docu vid 'History Behind' I'm glad it's getting a movie to tell more story behind it

    • @Supertrooper_00
      @Supertrooper_00 4 роки тому

      I learned about it from a My Favorite Murder Podcast. Crazy stuff!!!

  • @kidanwilliams12
    @kidanwilliams12 4 роки тому +22

    the book is very intriguing... def recommend that u read it before the movie

    • @npeace312
      @npeace312 4 роки тому +3

      I didn't know about the book so now it's on my library list. Love a good book! This one will be hard to read. So sad how they treated their employees.

    • @bearfeet1986
      @bearfeet1986 4 роки тому +2

      The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women is the full title. It’s such a good book!

  • @PlanetYokoshima
    @PlanetYokoshima 4 роки тому +1

    I am so lucky I just happened to want to search about the Radium Girls story and I find a recent this! A current trailer of a recent film to save me the trouble of digging deep in the internet fruitlessly to find this with exact truth!

  • @RagingRaven88
    @RagingRaven88 3 роки тому +1

    Just by title alone I know EXACTLY what this movie is about and I AM HERE FOR IT!!!!!

  • @borhaptrash5454
    @borhaptrash5454 4 роки тому +3

    I discoveref the story like 3 years ago... I‘m kinda glad people finally get to know to story

  • @erxnga
    @erxnga 2 роки тому +6

    what sucks is that after girls started dying, it was around the same time as The Great Depression so people were too scared to quit their jobs, and other people didn’t care that people were dying as long as they had jobs..

  • @sydney7701
    @sydney7701 4 роки тому

    My high school put this on as their fall drama. It was fantastic. I'm glad their story is being told on the big screen

  • @harini6174
    @harini6174 4 роки тому +1

    one of our competing schools preformed this for their UIL one act play, it was really good, I can't wait to see the movie

  • @22thetho9
    @22thetho9 3 роки тому +12

    I absolutely love this concept, however I just thought the film was not great at all.
    The changing between scenes felt very choppy, and I felt as though a couple of the characters served no purpose. I love the original story this movie was based on, though!

    • @Blueeyedshygirl4u
      @Blueeyedshygirl4u 2 роки тому

      It's not a "story". It's real.

    • @22thetho9
      @22thetho9 2 роки тому

      @@Blueeyedshygirl4u A story isn't necessarily fictional. The secondary definition of "story" is "an account on past events..."
      I never said it wasn't a true story.

  • @vanessavasconcelos8234
    @vanessavasconcelos8234 4 роки тому +6

    I first learned about this story on My Favorite Murder podcast. I'm looking forward to watching the movie

  • @donnalynn2
    @donnalynn2 4 роки тому +2

    I read the book. It was heartbresking, i was in tears. Everyone should see this.

  • @luluharshie3929
    @luluharshie3929 4 роки тому +1

    I was in this play in my local theater. I played Grace and it was heart wrenching. It’s an amazing story.

  • @sarahh7946
    @sarahh7946 4 роки тому +10

    This is such an interesting story I wonder why I've never heard of this

  • @jeharsy
    @jeharsy 4 роки тому +5

    Joey king always picks interesting projects!

  • @tacobella99
    @tacobella99 4 роки тому +2

    We did this play in high school. It’s exciting to see in become a movie!

  • @annacabello8800
    @annacabello8800 4 роки тому +1

    Wow. This is crazy. I did this play in high school and I remember how emotionally draining it was. Especially in the second act when the sick make-up was put on. Definitely going to go see this when it comes out.

  • @4peaceandharmony
    @4peaceandharmony 4 роки тому +6

    The effects were so much more gruesome than they're showing. In the preview. The book spares no detail on how Radium killed them painfully and slowly.

  • @zur137
    @zur137 4 роки тому +26

    Next do the triangle shirtwaist factory fire.

    • @dr3754
      @dr3754 3 роки тому +2

      YES, GOOD CALL AS THAT WOULD BE VERY SIMILAR TO THIS STORY IN MANY WAYS SADLY. THE MEN LOCKED THE WOMEN UP IN THE BUILDING DURING THE WORKDAY FFS.

    • @bmasters1981
      @bmasters1981 3 роки тому

      @@dr3754 And I think Joey King would be just as good in a film about that as she seems to be here with this Radium Girls film as Bessie Cavallo.

  • @camillianotcabello8832
    @camillianotcabello8832 2 роки тому

    going to watch this! my town has a radium issues with the water and is over the limit... they are working on a new water system but not fast enough- glad i dont drink the water anyways.

  • @kingmespeaks6839
    @kingmespeaks6839 4 роки тому

    This is like the play, These Shining Lives! God, this is gonna be a tearjerker.