Iron Jawed Angels

Note: The following synopsis tells the events portrayed in the story, but is not categorized as a spoiler since the film is a direct representation of historic events. The film opens as Alice and Lucy return to the United States from England where they have been actively involved in the suffrage movement. As the duo becomes more active within the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), they begin to realize that their ideas were much too radical for the established activists (particularly Carrie Chapman Catt). Bot ...

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Alice Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American suffragist leader. Along with Lucy Burns and others, she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in granting the right to vote to women in the U.S. federal election in 1920. Alice Paul was born into a Quaker family in Moorestown, New Jersey. She attended Swarthmore College (BA, 1905), the New York School of Philanthropy (social work), and the University of Pennsylvania (MA, sociology). In 1907, Paul moved to England where she attended the Univer ...

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Swank makes no secret of her humble beginnings, particularly as a child growing up near Lake Samish in Bellingham, Washington. After winning her second Best Actress Oscar, she said: "I don't know what I did in this life to deserve this. I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream". Hilary was discovered as a child by casting agent/producer Suzy Sachs, who coached her in acting. When she was nine years old she starred in her first play as Mowgli in The Jungle Book. She began to appear regularly in loc ...

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Ormond attended Cranleigh Public School (actually a private school), and then studied acting in London, England at the Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, from which she graduated in 1988. Ormond married Rory Edwards, an actor she had met while performing in a production of Wuthering Heights. The marriage ended in 1994. Ormond's first child, a girl, was born in the autumn of 2004. She runs a production company named Indican Productions, which is based in New York, New York. < ...

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Julia Ormond - As a producer. Calling the Ghosts : A Story of Rape, War and Women (1996) ...

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