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Film Comment: Mick Csaky
Film Comment: Mick Csaky
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Director Mick Csaky on making â??The Godmother of Rock & Roll.â?쳌
Film Outtake: 1957 Tour
Film Outtake: 1957 Tour
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The year Sister Rosetta Tharpe hit the road with Chris Barber and his band
Trailer: The Godmother of Rock & Roll
Trailer: The Godmother of Rock & Roll
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Discover the life, music and influence of Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Film: Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance
Film: Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance
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It's the life and times of The Joffrey Ballet on American Masters.
Joffrey: Making the Film
Joffrey: Making the Film
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On the impetus for making the documentary film Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance.
Joffrey: Making Altman's The Company
Joffrey: Making Altman's The Company
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The Joffrey Ballet's role in director Robert Altman's 2003 ballet film The Company.
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The famed author of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott’s life was no children’s book: she worked as a servant, a seamstress, and a Civil War nurse before becoming a millionaire celebrity writing “moral pap for the young,” as she called it. Under pen names and anonymously, she also wrote stories with enough drugs, sex, and crime to prove the author was no “little” woman. When she died, Alcott took her secret identity as a pulp fiction writer with her, and kept it for nearly a half-century.
Starring Elizabeth Marvel and featuring Jane Alexander, Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women tells the story of this remarkable woman’s quest to rescue her family from poverty and to find wealth, fame, and happiness for herself.
Raised in the center of 19th century New England’s great transcendentalist and abolitionist movements, Louisa May Alcott learned about literature from Ralph Waldo Emerson, went on nature walks with Henry David Thoreau, and saw the Civil War up close as an army nurse. Her story is also the story of three eras in American history: the Romantic Transcendental period, the Civil War, and the Gilded Age.
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