Backstairs at the White House

Author

Gwen Bagni

Call Number

• DVD DRAMA (EAS)

Languages

Closed-captioned.

Performers

Leslie Uggams, Olivia Cole, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Hooks, Leslie Nielsen, Cloris Leachman, Julie Harris, Victor Buono, Robert Vaughn, Kim Hunter, Claire Bloom, Celeste Holm, George Kennedy, Ed Flanders, Lee Grant, Larry Gates, Jan Sterling, Eileen Heckart, John Anderson, Harry Morgan, Estelle Parsons, Barbara Barrie, Andrew Duggan.

Publication Information

Silver Spring, MD : Acorn Media, [2005]

Physical Description

4 videodiscs (approximately 444 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Their unrivaled behind-the-scenes access gives White House staff a uniquely personal view of history in the making. Two remarkable women in one family served as White House maids over a period spanning five decades and eight administrations--from Taft to Eisenhower. Their story and a half-century of American history unfold in this star-studded drama.

Notes

Title from container.

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.

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

Bonus features: Photo gallery ; cast filmographies.

Contents

• Part 1. (148 min.) William Howard Taft, 1909-1913 ; Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921
• Part 2. (99 min.) Warren G. Harding, 1921-1923 ; Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929
• Part 3. (99 min.) Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933 ; Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945
• Part 4. (98 min.) Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953 ; Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953-1961.