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- Yes, ‘I Am Woman’ is based on a true story. It’s the real-life story of the Grammy-award-winning Australian singer, Helen Reddy. Directed and produced by Unjoo Moon, with a screenplay by Emma Jensen, the film is based on Reddy’s auto-biography, ‘The Woman I Am: A Memoir,’ which came out in 2005.
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Sep 11, 2020 · Before seeing the film, I, like many others, knew Reddy’s 1971 song “I Am Woman," the unofficial anthem of the women’s liberation movement thanks to its opening declaration: I am woman....
Aug 8, 2022 · The song’s central, survivor’s cry of “I’ve been down there on the floor/No one’s ever gonna keep me down again” came straight from the heart of singer Helen Reddy. Born into a showbiz family in...
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As far as Reddy could tell, no one had quite answered that question yet in pop music. When Capitol Records asked her for a collection of songs to prepare an album, one of the ideas she sent was a tune written with Australian musician Ray Burton, who had performed in the Delltones and the Executives. Reddy needed an outlet to express her irritation ...
Wald, who was also a film producer and Reddy’s manager, kept pushing for radio play, taking “I Am Woman” to a small station on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. Once they finally got it on the air, the station received tons of phone calls with listeners asking to hear it again. The next year, “I Am Woman” was selected to soundtrack the opening cred...
In the years following the enormous success of “I Am Woman,” Reddy would continue to release top 40 hits, such as Alan O’Day’s “Angie Baby” and Alex Harvey’s “Delta Dawn,” both of which hit number 1 upon release. Her first hit, though, has attained a legacy that stretches through decades of history and pop culture (“I Am Woman” was memorably refere...
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"I Am Woman" is a song written by Australian musicians Helen Reddy and Ray Burton. Performed by Reddy, the first recording of "I Am Woman" appeared on her debut album I Don't Know How to Love Him, released in May 1971, and was heard during the closing credits for the 1972 film Stand Up and Be Counted. A new recording of the song was released as ...
The feminist’s song “I Am Woman” was a rallying cry for women in the 70s, but the singer Helen Reddy’s road to success wasn’t always paved with folks willing to listen to her voice.
Sep 8, 2020 · The film is bolstered throughout by real, archival footage from women’s marches, Shirley Chisholm’s campaign, ERA work and interviews with Phylis Schlafly. History is emphatically present—and importantly so—from start to finish.
Aug 22, 2020 · The film begins in 1966 as Helen Reddy (Tilda) arrives in New York from Melbourne with her three-year-old daughter, a suitcase and $230. She’d won a singing contest that promised a recording contract but it didn’t pan out. Within weeks she was broke and within months she’d met and married manager Jeff Wald (Evan Peters).
