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Title:
Backstairs at the White House

My thirty years backstairs at the White House.
ISBN:
9781569388037
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (approximately 444 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Originally broadcast on television as a mini-series in 1979.

Based on My thirty years backstairs at the White House by Lillian Rogers Parks with Frances Spatz Leighton, and partially on interviews with Lillian Rogers Parks.

Special features: Disc 1: Photo gallery; Cast filmographies (Leslie Uggams, Olivia Cole, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Hooks, Leslie Nielsen, Cloris Leachman, Julie Harris, Victor Buono, Robert Vaughn, Kim Hunter, Claire Bloom). Disc 2: Cast filmographies (Leslie Uggams, Olivia Cole, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Hooks, Leslie Nielsen, Cloris Leachman, Celeste Holm, George Kennedy, Ed Flanders, Lee Grant). Disc 3. Cast filmographies (Leslie Uggams, Olivia Cole, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Hooks, Leslie Nielsen, Larry Gates, Jan Sterling, Eileen Heckart, John Anderson). Disc 4. Cast filmographies (Leslie Uggams, Olivia Cole, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Hooks, Harry Morgan, Estelle Parsons, Barbara Barrie, Andrew Duggan).
Contents:
pt. 1. William Howard Taft, 1909-1913. Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921 -- pt. 2. Warren G. Harding, 1921-1923. Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929 -- pt. 3. Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945 -- pt. 4. Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953. Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953-1961.
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Abstract:
An intimate look at life in the White House through eight administrations as remembered by a mother and daughter who, between them, served as White House maids for 52 years.
Subject:
Women household employees -- United States -- Drama.
Presidents -- United States -- Drama.
Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Drama.
Women, Black -- United States -- Drama.
Presidents.
Presidents' spouses.
Women, Black.
Women household employees.
United States.
Videodiscs.
Drama.
Historical television programs.
Television mini-series.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
White House (Washington, D.C.) -- Drama.
White House (Washington, D.C.)