Miss Lulu Bett (1921) on Netflix
Lulu Bett keeps house for her half-sister Ina Deacon and Ina's husband Dwight Deacon. Dwight's brother Ninian arrives, and he and Lulu take part in a mock marriage that Dwight declares legal.
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Plot summary
Lulu Bett is unmarried and lives in a Midwestern town in the home of her half-sister Ina Deacon and Ina's husband Dwight Deacon. Dwight heads the household and controls it, and Lulu works there as an exploited household drudge, in an era when unmarried women commonly lodged with relatives. She visibly dislikes Dwight, the brother-in-law she works under. The story belongs to the years of the women's suffrage movement, when women were beginning to assert their independence. That routine breaks when Dwight's brother Ninian Deacon, the scapegoat of the family, arrives for a visit. He and Lulu take part in a mock marriage, and Dwight declares the marriage legal.
Cast
- Taylor Gravesas Bobby Larkin
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Miss Lulu Bett (1921)
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When Zona Gale's story was turned into a play, two endings were written: one in which Lulu Bett sets out on her own, which won Gale the Pulitzer Prize, and a safer one in which Neil Cornish persuades her to stay with him.- In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed Miss Lulu Bett "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
- Gale personally advocated for women's rights: she was an active member of the National Women's Party, lobbied for the 1921 Wisconsin Equal Rights Law, and was an executive member of the Lucy Stone League, one of the first feminist groups from the suffrage movement.
