The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

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Title:

The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Author:

Korty, John, director.

Tyson, Cicely, actor.

Dysart, Richard., actor.

Helmond, Katherine, actor.

Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-2019, creator.

Summary:

The story of the life an African American woman from Louisiana, from the time of her childhood as a slave in the pre-Civil War South to 1962, when she witnesses the birth of the civil rights movement at the age of one hundred and ten.

Audience:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

General Note:

Based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines.

Features: making of the film documentary, the writing of the book documentary, Oral story tellin' tradition documentary, Emmy award clips, interactive menus, scene access.

Edition:

30th anniversary special ed.

Physical Description:

2 videodiscs (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Genre:

Biographical films.

Historical films.

Made-for-TV movies.

Television adaptations.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Feature films.

Local Note:

Midwest Tape

Personal Subject:

Gaines, Ernest J., 1933--Film and video adaptations.

Subject Term:

African American women -- Drama.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- Drama.

Author(s):

Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-2019,

Publisher:

Sony Wonder,

Publication Date:

2005

ISBN:

9780738930930

Publication Information:

New York, N.Y. : Sony Wonder, 2005.

Call Number:

DVD AUTOBIO

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Cicely Tyson ages from 19 to 110 in the role of Jane Pittman, a fictional African-American woman whose life began in slavery and ended at the inception of the Civil Rights Movement. Northern journalist Quentin Lerner (Michael Murphy) travels to the racially polarized south of 1962 to interview Ms. Pittman for a potential book. Her life unfolds in flashbacks, many painful and unpleasant, but just as many are uplifting and hopeful. Based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines and filmed on location in Baton Rouge, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman won nine Emmy Awards, including Best Actress (Tyson), Director (John Korty), and Screenplay (Tracy Keenan Wynn). The film premiered January 31, 1974, on CBS. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi