"Who wrote ""Uncle Tom's Cabin""?"
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1918 film) Uncle Tom's Cabin (1918 film) Uncle Tom's Cabin was a 1918 American silent drama film directed by J. Searle Dawley, produced by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation and distributed by Paramount Pictures under the Famous Players-Lasky name. The film is based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and George Aiken's eponymous play. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" starred Marguerite Clark, who portrayed both Topsy and Little Eva. It is now considered to be a lost film. As described in a film magazine, Uncle Tom (Losee) is on his way to the slave market. Eva St. Clair (Clark) and her father are
Uncle Tom's Cabin the white man", and the resulting derogatory term "Uncle Tom", resulted from staged "Tom Shows", which replaced Tom's grim death with an upbeat ending where Tom causes his oppressors to see the error of their ways, and they all reconcile happily. Stowe had no control over these shows and their alteration of her story. These negative associations have to some extent obscured the historical impact of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as a "vital antislavery tool". James Baldwin, in a 1949 essay "Everybody's Protest Novel", called "Uncle Tom's Cabin" a "very bad novel" ... "ruined by its "self-righteous, virtuous sentimentality", and stated