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Sister Aimee

DocumentaryTV Movie
10.0·2007·0h 57m

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. Bar...

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Cast

Blair Brown

Blair Brown

Narrator (voice)

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Anthea Butler

Self - Historian

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Daniel Mark Epstein

Self - Biographer

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Matthew Avery Sutton

Self - Biographer

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Randall Balmer

Self - Historian

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Edith Blumhofer

Self - Biographer

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Tona Hangen

Self - Historian

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David Daniels

Self - Historian

DIRECTOR

Linda Garmon

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.