Margaret Bourke-White (1989)
Directed by Lawrence Schiller
Sub-Genres - Biopic [feature] |
Release Date - Apr 24, 1989 (USA - Unknown) |
Run Time - 105 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
This made-for-cable biopic originally went out under the simpler title Margaret Bourke-White. Farrah Fawcett stars as the famed photojournalist, whose work for Life magazine from 1936 onward gained her worldwide celebrity. The best scenes, showing the dauntless Bourke-White (Fawcett) at work in the most grueling and perilous of situations, are all too fleeting. The filmmakers evidently believed that the audience would be more intrigued by Bourke-White's stormy relationship with her husband, novelist Erskine Caldwell (played with a fluctuating Southern accent by Frederic Forrest). The film's chief assets are the well-focused performance of Farrah Fawcett, and the lensed-on-location sequences in Louisiana and Moscow. Margaret Bourke-White premiered over the TNT cable channel on April 24, 1989.
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journalism, photography, photojournalist, war