Althea
Althea
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Production Companies
- Icarus Films
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.
"A documentary film about the trailblazing athlete, Althea Gibson"
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Cast
Althea Gibson
Crew
Rex Miller, David Majzlin, Nancy Buirski, David Majzlin, John Amos , View More
Elisabeth Haviland James, Elisabeth Haviland James, Rex Miller, William Ackman, Billie Jean King, Rex Miller
