After another significant censorship battle, and a vigorous publicity campaign by Universal, on May 13, 1917, Universal released "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle", "one of the most forceful films ever made in support of legalizing birth control", a follow-up to the previous year's top money-maker for Universal, "Where Are My Children?" Directed by Weber and Smalley based on their original script, it starred Smalley and Weber, in her last screen appearance, as a doctor's wife arrested and imprisoned for illegally disseminating family planning information. Influenced by the recent trial and imprisonment of pioneer birth control advocate Margaret Sanger, the film drew explicitly on her headline-generating activism.