Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Backstairs at the White House [videorecording] / an Ed Friendly production ; producers, Ed Friendly and Michael O'Herlihy ; written by Gwen Bagni and Paul Dubov ; directed by Michael O'Herlihy.

Publisher, Date:

Silver Spring, MD : Distributed by Acorn Media, [2005]

Description:

4 videodiscs (ca. 444 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 companion guide.

Summary:

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.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

White House (Washington, D.C.) -- Drama.

Women household employees -- United States -- Drama.

Presidents -- United States -- Drama.

Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Drama.

Television mini-series.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

O'Herlihy, Michael, 1929-1997.

Uggams, Leslie.

Cole, Olivia, 1942-2018

Gossett, Louis, Jr., 1936-2024

Parks, Lillian Rogers. My thirty years backstairs at the White House.

Acorn Media (Firm)

Notes:

Title from container.

Originally broadcast on television as a mini-series in 1979.

Based partially 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: Companion guide with producer's notes and historical background; photo gallery; cast filmographies.

Leslie Uggams, Olivia Cole, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Hooks, Leslie Nielsen.

DVD, full screen (4:3) presentation; Dolby Digital.

Closed-captioned.

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.

ISBN:

1569388032

9781569388037

Publisher Number:

AMP-8032

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

202799

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD TV Backstai

Medium:

[videorecording]