Scene from Boxcar Bertha (1972)
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Actresses in this Scene
Birth Name: Barbara Lynn Herzstein
Birth Date: 1948-02-05
Birth Place: Hollywood, Jackson County, United States
Details
Alternate Names: 바바라 허쉬, Barbara Lynn Herzstein, باربارا هرشی
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Full Biography
Barbara Hershey (born Barbara Lynn Herzstein; February 5, 1948) is an American actress. In a career spanning more than 50 years, she has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema in several genres, including westerns and comedies. She began acting at age 17 in 1965 but did not achieve much critical acclaim until the latter half of the 1980s. By that time, the Chicago Tribune referred to her as "one of America's finest actresses".
Hershey won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries/TV Film for her role in A Killing in a Small Town (1990). She received Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mary Magdalene in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and for her role in The Portrait of a Lady (1996). For the latter film, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has won two Best Actress awards at the Cannes Film Festival for her roles in Shy People (1987) and A World Apart (1988). She was featured in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), for which she was nominated for the British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress and Garry Marshall's melodrama Beaches (1988), and she earned a second British Academy Film Award nomination for Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan (2010).
Barbara Hershey
About the Movie: Boxcar Bertha (1972)
Release Year: 1972
Nation: United States
Alternative Title: Sexy e Marginal, Togrøverne fra Arkansas, El furgó de Bertha, El tren de Bertha, Frihetens blodiga sång, Vapauden verinen laulu, Bertha Boxcar, Enantia sti via, A lázadók ökle, America 1929 - Sterminateli senza pietà, Bertha, ladrona y amante, Uma Mulher da Rua, Furgon Berta, Boxcar Bertha - rånar och älskar, Soygun ve ask, Pasajeros Profesionales, Die Faust der Rebellen
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Ben L. Reitman, John William Corrington, Joyce Hooper Corrington
Production & Genre
Producer(s): Producer: Roger Corman
Executive Producer: James H. Nicholson, Samuel Z. Arkoff
Companies: American International Pictures
Genre: Action Film, Drama, Film Based On Book, Romance, Romance Film
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Keywords
Keywords: based on novel or book, depression, labor organizer
Story
During the Great Depression in Arkansas, 'Boxcar' Bertha Thompson, a transient woman, crosses paths with union organizer Big Bill Shelly. Together, they fight against the corrupt railroad management and its mistreatment of workers. Their struggle becomes intertwined with a romance between them.
Summary
Directed by Martin Scorsese in 1972, 'Boxcar Bertha' is an action drama film based on the novel 'Train Ride to Hollywood' by Dorothea Ben pi. Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the movie explores themes of social injustice and union struggles against corporate power.