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Oct 10, 2018 · Jane and Emma, a groundbreaking new film produced by Excel Entertainment, shares an up close and personal look at the relationship between Jane Manning James and Emma Smith. These are two women whose friendship and sisterhood helped them through trials of faith, racism, and personal sacrifices.
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Oct 12, 2018 · Although their life experiences were vastly different, Jane and Emma were two women connected as sisters through their faith in Christ. Jane was a free black woman who found strength and purpose in joining the Church.
Oct 4, 2024 · In the film (and in real life), Emma and Jane become as close as sisters despite the racism and religious turmoil around them. It’s their friendship that becomes the focus of the film. The Story: Jane and Emma Movie. Romanticism and a Jane Eyre influence trickle into both the screenplay and the production. Like Rochester calling Jane across a ...
Jane and Emma breathes life into the real-life friendship of Jane Manning and Emma Smith. This important film examines their friendship within its complex matrix of history fraught with racism, the murder of the prophet Joseph, his polygamy and the strain of Emma's marriage.
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- Chantelle Squires
- 2018-10-12
- Joseph Smith was the Mayor of Nauvoo at the time of his death. This is one of the reasons that he was able to order the destruction of the libelous Nauvoo Expositor in an attempt to squelch potential mob action that the newspaper might incite.
- Joseph and Hyrum Smith’s bodies were returned to Nauvoo the day after they were killed. As it states in a Church manual on lds.org, “On the morning of 28 June 1844, the bodies of the slain leaders were gently placed on two different wagons, covered with branches to shade them from the hot summer sun, and driven to Nauvoo by Willard Richards, Samuel Smith, and Artois Hamilton.
- A funeral with decoy caskets was held after the viewing. Even in death, Joseph was not safe. As the film mentions, there was a price on his head, and the threat of someone trying to steal the corpse was very real.
- Jane Manning was born free. While this fact is described in the film as well, it is interesting to know that Jane was born in Wilton, Connecticut, and lived as a servant in a white farmer’s home.
Jane and Emma is a 2018 American period drama film following a fictionalized [1] friendship between Emma Smith, the wife of Joseph Smith, and Jane Manning James. The film was directed by Chantelle Squires and written by Melissa Leilani , Tamu Smith, and Zandra Vranes.
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Oct 14, 2018 · As their friendship grew, Jane and Emma likely realized that their friendship wasn’t "unlikely" at all; they were both daughters of God trying to do his work. Despite the racial divisions of the time, Jane and Emma saw things through the eyes of a loving God, not social prejudices.
