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It is also one of my personal favorites – which is why we continue to broadcast it, year after year.” According to Lacy, “BALDWIN has long been one of the most popular documentaries broadcast on American Masters. Over the past two decades, PBS has aired the film repeatedly.
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The result was JAMES BALDWIN: THE PRICE OF THE TICKET, with Albert Maysles and Susan Lacy as Executive Producers: a film without narration, full of archival treasures where Jimmy Baldwin tells his own story.
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After Baldwin’s death in 1987, Susan Lacy gave Karen Thorsen her first chance at directing – and the gamble paid off. Originally, it was a cinéma vérité project, to be produced by Karen Thorsen and directed by Albert Maysles. A film on James Baldwin was one of American Masters’ first productions.
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Find out more by visiting the Today in History section, then click the links below to access some of the Library’s top literary treasures. Influenced by a teacher-poet and Harlem Renaissance leader Countee Cullen-Baldwin went on to earn his own place in literary history. Today in History–August 2–the Library of Congress features novelist, essayist, and playwright James Baldwin, born on this day in 1924.