Sister Aimee

Linda Garmon
2007-04-02

Saint or sinner?
10
57 min

At the peak of her immense popularity in the 1920s, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was drawing larger crowds to her revivals than those of P.T. Barnum or Harry Houdini. This chapter of "American Experience" paints a vivid portrait of the controversial and charismatic religious figure. Credited with mainstreaming religion in American culture, Sister Aimee created one of the country's first Christian radio stations, among other accomplishments.

Cast

Name Character Team
Blair Brown Narrator (voice) Unowned
Anthea Butler Self - Historian Unowned
Daniel Mark Epstein Self - Biographer Unowned
Matthew Avery Sutton Self - Biographer Unowned
Randall Balmer Self - Historian Unowned
Edith Blumhofer Self - Biographer Unowned
Tona Hangen Self - Historian Unowned
David Daniels Self - Historian Unowned
Aimee Semple McPherson Self (archive footage) Unowned
Robert Orsi Self - Historian Unowned
Stephen Prothero Self - Historian Unowned
Wendell St. Clair Self - Historian Unowned
Matthew Balluff Revival Participant Unowned
Olivia Rizzo Revival Participant Unowned
John Handler Revival Participant Unowned
Warren O'Reilly Revival Participant Unowned