| Description |
1 videodisc (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD. |
| Note |
Biography; TV movie. |
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Source: Based on the book The ditchdigger's daughters by Yvonne S. Thornton, M.D. as told to Jo Coudert. |
| Cast |
Carl Lumbly (Donald Thornton); Rosalyn Coleman, Victoria Dillard, Kimberly Elise, Dule Hill, Shelley Robertson, Monica Calhoun, Erika L. Heard, Denice J. Sealy, Lynne Moody; Rae-'ven Kelly. |
| Credits |
Editor, Allan Holzman; photography, Fernando Arguelles; music, Phil Marshall. |
| Summary |
"Donald Thornton was a black ditchdigger. His wife Tass was a cleaning woman. And America of the 1950s was not about to share its dream with the likes of them. For 35 years Donald worked several jobs and put in 16-hour days to provide for his family. He singlehandedly built a house in New Jersey so that his girls could be enrolled in white schools. He instilled the value of education in them at an early age and enforced the strictest study habits. He had each of his six girls learn a musical instrument and form a band that played the college circuit--until they eventually appeared at the renowned Apollo Theater in Harlem. Donald was the driving force in getting his daughters educated. And in aiming at the near-impossible heights of medical school for his children, he risked his most precious possession--his daughters' love"--Videocassette sleeve. |
| Note |
Broadcast on the Family Channel. |
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Copyright notice on videocassette: c1997 by International Family Entertainment, Inc. |
| Subject |
Thornton family -- Drama.
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Thornton, Yvonne S. -- Family -- Drama.
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African American women -- New Jersey -- Biography -- Drama.
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African American women -- Education -- New Jersey -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Black films and programs.
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Biographies.
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Made for TV movies.
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| Added Author |
Jensen, Johnny E., direction.
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