I’m starting a whispering campaign for a movie about evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. Another Aimee, Amy Sedaris, could play her, and Ms. Murphy could produce it. Emmy or Oscar no brainer!!!
Aimee Semple McPherson Movie or TV Show Idea
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| by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 23, 2019 6:15 PM |
She was the original Jussie!
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 22, 2019 4:06 PM |
Kathy Lee Gifford already wrote a musical based on her life
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 22, 2019 4:29 PM |
Unless she's written like an Evita type character, it's going to be a very dreary movie.
You should call Lifetime and see if they will put it on their Christmas roster.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 22, 2019 4:29 PM |
It is a fascinating story. Her delivery was very theatrical, almost vaudevillian, not sure modern audiences could relate to her.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 22, 2019 6:09 PM |
Starring Faye Dunaway and Bette Davis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disappearance_of_Aimee
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 22, 2019 6:22 PM |
Also during filming:
In her memoir This 'n That (1987, Berkley Pub Group), Bette Davis recounted several anecdotes about working on The Disappearance of Aimee. Among them was that her co-star, Faye Dunaway, was one of the most unprofessional people she had ever worked with. Davis stated that Dunaway would show up hours late, not knowing her lines, and being generally difficult. For one of the scenes in the un-air-conditioned tabernacle, over 1800 unpaid extras (locals who had been promised a box lunch and a chance to be in a movie) were left for hours awaiting Dunaway's arrival. When they finally began leaving, Davis rushed to the pulpit and began singing "I've Written a Letter to Daddy," a song from her wildly popular 1962 film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?. Hearing her, many returned to their seats in the pews.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 22, 2019 6:24 PM |
Absolutely fascinating story of one of America's first celebrities. Read about her first in an "American Heritage book." PBS did a really good documentary about her as one of the first fundamentalist.
She was cut from the same cloth as modern day televangelists and Islamist terrorists. Attack modernity by using the instruments of modernity...for her dancing shoes, smoking, drinking by using the radio to reach an ever larger audience. On 9/11 the symbols of modernity (buildings representing the economic and military power of the US were attacked by airplanes.
As for this thread, methinks OP might be a plant or a ringer:
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 22, 2019 6:35 PM |
A plant or a ringer, no just your typical Datalounger.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 22, 2019 7:18 PM |
My apologies then, OP.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 23, 2019 6:15 PM |