Cora unashamed [videorecording] / ALT Films in association with Paramount ; produced by Marian Rees ; screenplay by Ann Peacock ; directed by Deborah M Pratt.
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[videorecording] /
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Distributed by Warner Home Video, Distributed by Warner Home Video,
"Based on the short story by Langston Hughes." "PBS Pictures"--Container. Originally broadcast as part of ExxonMobil masterpiece theatre's American collection. Followed by ca. 18 min. of programming about The American collection and about the story and making of Cora unashamed. Regina Taylor, Cherry Jones, Ellen Muth, Michael Gaston, Kohl Sudduth, Arlen Dean Snyder, CCH Pounder.
Summary:
Drama, set in the 1920s and 1930s, about Cora Jenkins, who lives with her mother and daughter in a small town in Iowa. Cora, part of the only African American family in town, works as a servant for a middle class white family, the Studevants. Cora's daughter plays with the Studevants' daughter; the girls are the same age. When Cora loses her daughter, she begins to focus her caring on the young Studevant girl, who is treated coldly by her own domineering, class-conscious mother. We see Cora gradually gain a better sense of her role in the Studevant family and of herself, as time passes and the various relationships evolve.
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