The Crowning Experience

This film was actually based on a touring stage play, which itself was based on the life of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, the pioneering educator and civil rights activist who became an adviser to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

For more information from the book companion to the film, click here: ca.iofc.org/sites/ca.iofc.org/files/media/document/th/the_crowning_experience_book_small.pdf

Screen play by Alan Thornhill
Directed by produced and presented by Moral Re-Armament (MRA)
First premiered at the Warner Theatre, Broadway and Forty-seventh Street, New York
Running time: 102 minutes. 

Directors: Marion Clayton Anderson, Rickard Tegström
Writer: Alan Thornhill

The Cast:
Emma Tremaine: Muriel Smith 
Charlie: Louis Byles 
Sarah Spriggs: Ann Buckles 
Julie: Anna Marie McCurdy 
Mrs. Spriggs: Phyllis Konstam 
Austin Blaney: Robert Anderson 
Young Charlie: George McCurdy 
Mr. Spriggs: William Pawley Jr.

The Crew:
Editor: Cecil Broadhurst
Prologue Narrator: Joel McCrea
Music by: Paul Dunlap
Cinematography: Rickard Tegström

Music Department:
Conductor: George Fraser
Musical Director: Paul Dunlap
Assistant (to George Fraser): Herbie Allen, Cecil Broadhurst, Frances Hadden, Richard Hadden, John Hopcraft, Waldemar Smith

Production date: 1959