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Sister Aimee (2007)

Sister Aimee (2007)

TV Movie Documentary

Saint or sinner?

Release Date: 2007, April 2
Directors: Linda Garmon
Countries: United States of America
Production: Carousal Films, WGBH Educational Foundation (US)
Cast: Blair Brown, David Daniels, Randall Balmer, Anthea Butler, Daniel Mark Epstein, Edith Blumhofer, Tona Hangen, Aimee Semple McPherson, Robert Orsi, Stephen Prothero, Wendell St. Clair, Matthew Balluff

Overview:

At the peak of her immense popularity in the 1920s, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was drawing larger crowds to her revivals than those of P.T. Barnum or Harry Houdini. This chapter of "American Experience" paints a vivid portrait of the controversial and charismatic religious figure. Credited with mainstreaming religion in American culture, Sister Aimee created one of the country's first Christian radio stations, among other accomplishments.

Keywords:

woman director kidnapping evangelical christianity pentecostalism