Filmmaker Interview with Rex Miller: Making "Althea"
Clip: 9/4/2015 | 2m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
A photo Althea Gibson with his mother was the film director's original inspiration.
A photograph of his mother standing next to Althea Gibson, and his mother's pride at having played once against the tennis champion, are the origins of Rex Miller's interest in Gibson. Gibson's tennis achievements initially drew Miller to tell her story, but he was also intrigued by her other accomplishments, including recording a jazz album, earning a college degree, acting in a John Ford film.
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Filmmaker Interview with Rex Miller: Making "Althea"
Clip: 9/4/2015 | 2m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
A photograph of his mother standing next to Althea Gibson, and his mother's pride at having played once against the tennis champion, are the origins of Rex Miller's interest in Gibson. Gibson's tennis achievements initially drew Miller to tell her story, but he was also intrigued by her other accomplishments, including recording a jazz album, earning a college degree, acting in a John Ford film.
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Althea Gibson at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills
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Home movies of Althea Gibson practicing at the esteemed club in New York City. (1m 49s)
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The story of Althea Gibson, queen of the highly segregated tennis world in the 1950s. (2m 24s)
Althea: Race in the Sport of Tennis
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Althea Gibson wasn't concerned with representing her race, she just wanted to play. (1m 21s)
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