CREDITS AND BIOS
Credits | BiosCREDIT PAGE: Narrated by Patricia Clarkson And featuring the voices of: J.K. Simmons as Henry Alsberg Amy Bloom as Anzia Yezierska Richard Ford as Jim Thompson Jonathan Holloway as Richard Wright Elmer Kelton as Vardis Fisher James McBride as Ralph Ellison Marilyn Nelson as Zora Neale Hurston Reynolds Price as John Cheever SINGLE CARDS Narrated by: PATRICIA CLARKSON Voice of Henry Alsberg: J.K. SIMMONS Directed and Produced by: ANDREA KALIN Co-Producer: DAVID A. TAYLOR Co-Producer: JAMES MIRABELLO Written by: DAVID A. TAYLOR & OLIVE EMMA BUCKLIN & ANDREA KALIN Director of Photography: DENNIS BONI Editor: DAVID GROSSBACH Original Music Composed by: JOSEPH VITARELLI Art Director: JEFFREY PRATT GORDON Graphic Artists: LUIS G. PORTILLO BEN E. FINE Associate Producer: OLIVER LUKACS Assistant Editor: WANAKHAVI WAKHISI CREDIT ROLL: Additional Character Voices: VINCE BROWN JUANETT T. DAVIS BRANTLEY DUNAWAY GERARD L. FARROW GARY LOGAN DEBRA JACKSON KAREN SIMON Creative Consultant and Outreach Director: NANCY CAMP Production Design: JEFFREY PRATT GORDON Opening Title Sequence Graphics: ADAM NEWBERRY Consulting Producer: OLIVE EMMA BUCKLIN Research: JAMES MIRABELLO OLIVER LUKACS BONNIE ROWAN LEWANNE JONES KARMA FOLEY NANCY CAMP DANIELLE METZ MARIBEL QUEZADA BRITTANY LUSE Production Associates: JUANETT T. DAVIS ALICIA MELTON WANAKHAVI WAKHISI MARIBEL QUEZADA Additional Editing: OLIVER LUKACS Audio Engineer: LEN SCHMITZ Additional Photography: by: MARK SMITH PATRICK BLACKARD JEFFREY PRATT GORDON RALPH HAMMACK RICH MORIARTY CLAIBOURNE LASHLEY Additional Audio Engineers: RICHARD HARRIS ETHAN ANDRUS AL MCGUIRE DAN BURGER Original Score Supervisor: NICHOLAS VITERELLI Score Produced By: BRADFORD ELLIS & JOSEPH VITARELLI Orchestrations: JOSEPH VITARELLI, BRADFORD ELLIS & JORGE DELBARRIO Score Preparation: KENNETH GRUBERMAN Music Contractor: DAVID LOW Score Recorded By: CHARLIE PAAKKARI Score Recorded At: CAPITOL STUDIOS Featured Soloists: VIOLIN CHARLIE BISHARAT ALTO SAX & CLARINET DAN HIGGINS GUITAR & HARMONICA MATT CARTSONIS BASS MIKE VALERIO PIANO MIKE LANG Ensemble: CONDUCTOR PETE ANTHONY VIOLINS PHILIP LEVY, MARK ROBERTSON, SONGA LEE VIOLAS BRIAN DENBOW, DARRIN MCCANN CELLOS DAVID LOW, DENNIS KARMAYZN FLUTE DAVE SHOSTAC OBOE DAVID WEISS Source Music Producer: DOUG PEACH Gaffer/Grips: TIM FABRIZIO CLAIBOURNE LASHLEY RICK SMITH MARK CLARK PHIL CURRY RYAN ROMKEMA JAYE KENYON FOSTER COLLINS Equipment Rentals: BONI PRODUCTIONS DC CAMERA, ERICH ROLAND TEAM VIDEO THE LIGHTING ZONE HIGH CONTRAST LIGHTING & GRIP VER Sound Design by Clean Cuts Music Sound Mixer: JOE POWERS Original Guitar Compositions & Performance: WALL MATTHEWS Fiddle: ROBERT SPATES Dobro: DAVE GIEGERICH Telecine: PRO8MM Casting Directors: MAURA PIERCE KAREN SIMON Costumes: CHARRELLE'S COSTUMES Antique Cars: DAVE AND MARILEE HALL THE TIRE KICKERS CLUB Locations: THOUSAND SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, IDAHO CITY OF ROCKS PRESERVE, IDAHO BASTROP STATE PARK, TEXAS MUSEUM OF PRINTING HISTORY, TEXAS MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, MARYLAND KINGWOOD, WEST VIRGINIA ARTHURDALE, WEST VIRGINIA ATLAS THEATER, WASHINGTON DC FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL, WASHINGTON DC LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON DC CLARA WHITE MISSION, FLORIDA BELUTHAHATCHEE, FLORIDA EVERETT HARDWOOD/KLA ROOFING, PENNSYLVANIA COFRIN LIBRARY, WISCONSIN Commentators: DAVID BRADLEY DOUGLAS BRINKLEY JACK DIES DENA EPSTEIN DAGOBERTO GILB MARYEMMA GRAHAM STETSON KENNEDY LORETTA METOXEN MINDY MORGAN ROBERT POLITO STUDS TERKEL Advising Scholars: JERROLD HIRSCH AL STEIN WILLIAM LEUCHTENBURG ANN BANKS PETER KUZNICK STEVE RABIN THULANI DAVIS BERNARD WEISBERGER DENNIS MCDANIEL CHRISTINE BOLD PEGGY BULGER LOUIE ATTEBURY RACHEL COHEN MICHAEL TAFT DAVID A. TAYLOR NANCY GROCE Archival Material Courtesy of: ART SHAY ASSOCIATED PRESS BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY, YALE UNIVERSITY THE BROOKLYN TABLET CARL VAN VECHTEN DAVID EVANS DENA EPSTEIN GIPSON FAMILY AND THE CAXTON PRINTERS LTD., CALDWELL, IDAHO GRANT FISHER PHILIP BLACKBURN STETSON KENNEDY THOMPSON FAMILY CHEEVER FAMILY CHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUM CHICAGO TRIBUNE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. USED WITH PERMISSION. CORINTH FILMS, INC. DC PUBLIC LIBRARY, STAR COLLECTION, © WASHINGTON POST THE "DING" DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL AND AREA STUDIES COLLECTIONS, GEORGE A. SMATHERS LIBRARIES, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA ERNIE SMITH JAZZ FILM COLLECTION, ARCHIVES CENTER, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ESTATE OF ZORA NEALE HURSTON FRANKLIN D. 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ESTATE OF RICHARD WRIGHT LEO SELTZER Featuring Clips from: ASSASSIN OF YOUTH (1937) THE FRONT PAGE (1931) HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940) MY MAN, GODFREY (1936) OUR DAILY BREAD (1934) Project Controller: MARY SIMCOCK Production Assistants/Interns: CHRISTINA BANKS STEPHEN BENSON CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY NINA BURNETT DWANN CUTLER ALEXANDRA DELFIN CLIFF DICOCCO GERARD L. FALLOW GLEN GORDON SASHA JACKSON KATY JUNE-FRIESEN MAYA LERMAN KEVIN LORIA BRITTANY LUSE AMANDA MANDRELL TIFFANY MOORE AUDREY RICHARDSON RHEA SHANNON CONSTANCE THURMAN VICTORIA VARGAS ADIN WALKER ANDREA WHITE DANIELLE METZ MARIBEL QUEZADA Very Special Thanks to: TOM PHELPS, DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS, NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES Special Thanks to: STETSON KENNEDY SANDRA PARKS SEAN KENNEDY THE STETSON KENNEDY FOUNDATION STEVE RABIN EDUCATIONAL FILM WISCONSIN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ARTS AND LETTERS WRITERS LEAGUE OF TEXAS FOUNDATION FOR HISTORICAL LOUISIANA DAVE AND MARILEE HALL TERRY SMITH ED BUCKLEW HEATHER DALTON, ARTHURDALE HERITAGE, INC. DARLA KUHN, BUCKWHEAT FESTIVAL DARWIN TITCHENELL, BUCKWHEAT FESTIVAL J.C. AND THE BOYS SHARON THOMPSON REED CHRISTINE SPENCER CLAY SMITH, TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL HARPER SCOTT, TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL SUSAN SWETNAM RUTH SHEFFEY GLENN PHILLIPS BOB SHAFFER ALEX JAENSCH LOUIS ATTEBURY VICKY STARR CAROL AHLGREN HILDA RAZ HELEN STAUFFER RON HULL DAVID FEINGOLD NEBRASKA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION SHARON MAUST PHYLLIS AND HAROLD JOHNSON CAROL SNYDER, BEDFORD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE KEN TEWELL, EVERETT HARDWOOD/KLA ROOFING OLGA HERBERT DEBBIE & BOB ALTIZER, LINCOLN MOTOR COURT DENNIS TICE, BEDFORD COUNTY VISITORS BUREAU HERBERT LEWIS MICHELLE DANFORTH KAY KLUBERTANZ GORDON MCLESTER THE ONEIDA NATION SUSAN BRANDEHOFF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION GLENN MARCUS TOM STODDARD DAVID WEINSTEIN SONIA FEIGENBAUM JACK HEYRMAN TODD HARVEY FAYE HASKINS AMERICAN FOLKLIFE CENTER JOHN LITTLEFIELD JAMES ALLEN LORETTA METOXEN WISCONSIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY JULIA WRIGHT SONGS: "Unemployment Stomp" Performed by: Big Bill Broonzy Appears on: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime, New World Records 80270 "The Road is Open Again" Performed by: Dick Powell Written by: Irving Kahal and Sammy Fain "Do Right by Me" Performed by: Buster "Bus" Ezell Taken from: "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress "Where You Been So Long?" Performed by: Sydney Stripling and Gus Gibson Appears on: "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress "Scorpio" Performed by The Mary Lou Williams Collective Appears on: Zodiac Suite: Revisited, Mary Records "Virgo" Performed by The Mary Lou Williams Collective Appears on: Zodiac Suite: Revisited, Mary Records "Alabama Red" Performed by: Sidney Stripling Appears on: "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress "Even Wild Horses-Dance Music for an Absent Drama, Act III, Scene I: "Had I Not Once a Lovely Youth" (Conga)" Written by: Harry Partch Performed by: Gate 5 Ensemble Appears on: The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 1, New World Records 80621 "Mi Plisi" Written and Performed by Mike Mirabello "I Want Jesus to Walk With Me" Performed by: Alison Radcliffe "El Caballo de Palo" Performed by: Sesteto Encanto Appears on: Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress "She Ain't That Kind" Performed by: Floyd Jones Appears on: Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress "There's More Pretty Girls Than One" Performed by: Wayne "Gene" Dinwiddie Appears on: Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress "Sally Goodin" Performed by: Olon Rink, Howard Pace, J.D. Allen Appears on: Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress "Versos del Mojado" Performed by: Homero Lopez and Manuel Salinas Appears on: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress "The Wagoner" Performed by: Lloyd Harmon and Willard Brewer Appears on: Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress "Wildwood Flower" Performed by: Norman Nelson Appears on: Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress "March to the Tournament" Performed by the Manhattan Concert Band, 1939 Sponsored by Federal Music Project, WPA "Government Camp Song" Performed by: Mary Campbell and Betty Campbell Appears on: Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress "Daniel Saw the Stone" Performed by: The Holloway High School Quartet Appears on: "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress "Jesus is a Rock in a Weary Land" Performed by: Wallace Quarterman Appears on: "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress "Keep Yo' Lamp a Trimmed And a Burnin'" Performed by: Irene Williams Appears on: Voices From the Days of Slavery, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress "Hymn #68" Performed by: The Oneida Indian Choir Appears on: Oneida Hymns and History of the Episcopal Church Among the Oneida, Marquette University Archives "I Know I Got Religion" Performed by: Golden Jubilee Quartet Appears on: "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress "Uncle Bud" Performed by: Zora Neale Hurston Appears on: Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress "We Are Americans, Praise de Lawd" Performed by: Bertha Houston and congregation Appears on: Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Funding Provided by: NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES SMITHSONIAN NETWORKS NEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL HUMANITIES TEXAS ILLINOIS HUMANITIES COUNCIL WISCONSIN HUMANITIES COUNCIL IDAHO HUMANITIES COUNCIL MARYLAND HUMANITIES COUNCIL FOR SMITHSONIAN NETWORKS Production Manager: GRETA S. PITTARD Supervising Producer: KATE SWEENEY Director Production Management: ADDIE MORAY Executive Producer: JOY GALANE Vice President of Development: CHRIS HOETZL Vice President of Production: CHARLES POE Executive Vice President of Programming and Production: DAVID ROYLE © SNI/SI Networks L.L.C. All Rights Reserved FOR STETSON AND MY BOYS, MARTY AND YONI