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The Black Stork, also known as Are You Fit To Marry?, is a 1917 American motion picture film both written by and starring Harry J. Haiselden, who was the chief surgeon at the German-American Hospital in Chicago. [1] The Black Stork is Haiselden's fictionalized account of his eugenic infanticide of John Bollinger, who was born with severe ...
Harry John Haiselden (March 16, 1870 – June 18, 1919) was an American physician and the Chief Surgeon at the German-American Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.Haiselden gained notoriety in 1915, when he refused to perform needed surgery for children born with severe birth defects and allowed the babies to die, in an act of eugenics.
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The Black Stork, a 1917 American silent film promoting eugenic practices, re-edited and re-released in 1927 under the title Are You Fit to Marry? Damaged Goods (1937 film) , a 1937 American film about sexually transmitted diseases, also known as Are You Fit to Marry?
The documentary begins with a clipping of a 1916 American movie that trumpets the creed of eugenics. In The Black Stork, the lead character, physician Harry Haiselden playing himself, refuses to give a newborn, mildly deformed baby a life-saving operation (or, instead, makes the operation fatal). 'There are times when saving a life is a greater ...
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A promotional flyer for The Black Stork. Case law provides additional evidence for hypersexual racialization and race suicide anxieties. Rhinelander v. Rhinelander (1925), for instance, painted a Black woman as a hypersexual "vamp" who took advantage of her white husband. [12] The white man, Leo Rhinelander, claimed that his wife lied about her ...
She was also in the cast of the eugenics film The Black Stork (1917). Her Broadway credits included roles in Ziegfeld Follies of 1916, Hitchy-Koo (1917), Let's Go (1918), Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic (1919), [12] Jimmie (1921), [11] and The Hotel Mouse (1922). [13] White's last film role was in Face to Face (1922), with Marguerite Marsh.