Althea (2014)

ALL 11/14/2014 (en) Documentary 84 Min
  • Release
    11/14/2014
  • Production
    Icarus Films
  • Rotten tomato
    70%
  • Original title
    Althea
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

A documentary film about the trailblazing athlete, Althea Gibson

Overview

Althea Gibson’s life and achievements transcend sports. A truant from the rough streets of Harlem, Althea emerged as a most unlikely queen of the highly segregated tennis world in the 1950s. Her roots as a sharecropper’s daughter, her family’s migration north to Harlem in the 1930s, mentoring from Sugar Ray Robinson, David Dinkins and others, and fame that thrust her unwillingly into the glare of the early Civil Rights movement, all bring her story into a much broader realm of the American story.

  1. Rex Miller

    Director

  2. Story



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Althea (2014) 84 Min

ALL 11/14/2014 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 11/14/2014
  • Production
    Icarus Films
  • Original title Althea
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

A documentary film about the trailblazing athlete, Althea Gibson

Overview

Althea Gibson’s life and achievements transcend sports. A truant from the rough streets of Harlem, Althea emerged as a most unlikely queen of the highly segregated tennis world in the 1950s. Her roots as a sharecropper’s daughter, her family’s migration north to Harlem in the 1930s, mentoring from Sugar Ray Robinson, David Dinkins and others, and fame that thrust her unwillingly into the glare of the early Civil Rights movement, all bring her story into a much broader realm of the American story.

  1. Rex Miller

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Elisabeth Haviland James

    Editor

  4. Nancy Buirski, Elisabeth Haviland James, Rex Miller

    Producer