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Movies and Tv Shows About the Radium Girls

• The Case of the Living Dead Women, a Website, displays scans of 180 pages of newspaper clippings about a similar incident, the Ottawa, Illinois Radium Dial Company litigation.[26]
• A fictionalized version of the story was featured in the 1937 short story "Letter to the Editor" by James H. Street, adapted into a 1937 film Nothing Sacred and a 1953 Broadway musical Hazel Flagg.
• The documentary Radium City depicts first hand accounts of some of the watch dial painters in Ottawa, IL.[15]
• A version of the story for a young adult readership is told in the novel Glow by Megan E. Bryant. (ISBN 978-080752963-8)[27]
• A play named These Shining Lives was written by Melanie Marnich and Dramatists Play Service Inc. and is narrated by Catherine Wolfe Donohue, one of four protagonist workers who sued in Illinois. (ISBN 978-0822224488)[28][29]
• Luminous: The Story of a Radium Girl (2020) by Samantha Wilcoxson is a biographical fiction novel featuring Catherine Donohue (ISBN 9798637237388).
• A film was set to release on April 3, 2020, named Radium Girls starring Joey King, however, it was delayed due to COVID-19[30][31]
• A 2000 play Radium Girls by D. W. Gregory is based on the incident.
• The Scottish Band Idlewild refers to the fate of the Radium Girls in the song "Radium Girl" on the album Everything Ever Written.