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Mrs. America

Series 1

Gloria

Duration: 46 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two WalesLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland

Available for 4 months

As Phyllis is shown the need to mobilise grassroots opposition to the ERA in her home state of Illinois, Gloria Steinem is launching the feminist magazine MS in New York and attempting to fend off Bella Abzug's well-meaning attempts to promote her as a spokeswoman for the advocates of the ERA as a direct challenge to the forceful but less politically astute Betty Friedan. Show less

Contributors

Phyllis Schlafly:
Cate Blanchett
Gloria Steinem:
Rose Byrne
Shirley Chisolm:
Uzo Aduba
Jill Ruckelshaus:
Elizabeth Banks
Brenda Feigen-Fasteau:
Ari Graynor
Rosemary Thomson:
Melanie Lynskey
Bella Abzug:
Margo Martindale
Fred Schlafly:
John Slattery
Eleanor Schlafly:
Jeanne Tripplehorn
Betty Friedan:
Tracey Ullman
Alice Macray:
Sarah Paulson
Phil Crane:
James Marsden
Director:
Anna Boden
Director:
Ryan Fleck
Florence:
Niecy Nash
George McGovern:
John Bourgeois
Franklin Thomas:
Jay Ellis

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