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- The main character is Lillian Rogers Parks, a maid at the White House for three decades and the author of the non-fiction book upon which this miniseries is based.
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Backstairs at the White House is a 1979 NBC television miniseries based on the 1961 book My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House by Lillian Rogers Parks (with Frances Spatz Leighton). The series, produced by Ed Friendly Productions, is the story of behind-the-scenes workings of the White House and the relationship between the staff and ...
Backstairs at the White House: Created by Gwen Bagni, Paul Dubov. With Leslie Uggams, Olivia Cole, Louis Gossett Jr., Robert Hooks. Behind the scenes at the White House during eight administrations, as told by the people who work there.
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Oct 22, 2013 · Unlike The Butler‘s fictionalized version of Eugene Allen’s life, which is transformed into the more archetypal journey of the character Cecil Gaines, Parks’ true story is seen in her narrative.
Drawn from Lillian Rogers Parks' 1961 novel “My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House” and originally aired on NBC, recounts the head maid's real life as she works for eight presidents—from Taft through Eisenhower—and narrates a wide array of historical events during her 52 years of service.
Oct 20, 2005 · Probably inspired by the surprising success in America of the British series Upstairs, Downstairs and certainly by the phenomenon of Alex Haley's Roots two years before, executive producer Ed Friendly must have reasoned that Backstairs at the White House held much the same appeal as the British show, with race as well as class being a source of ...
Backstairs at the White House is a 1979 NBC television miniseries based on the 1961 book My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House by Lillian Rogers Parks.
Warren and Florence Harding (George Kennedy and Celeste Holms) are stuck with a dimwitted husband (and a corrupt one) learning that his administration has more holes in it than a swiss cheese. His infidelities are revealed (before Kennedy and Clinton Harding was our most priapic President).
