Shailene Woodley, Olivia Rodrigo and extra stars had been American Women lengthy earlier than they turned Hollywood A-listers.
The beloved toy model — which was initially owned by Nice Firm earlier than Mattel purchased the rights to the property in 1998 — was identified for its vary of history-inspired dolls that had been set in numerous many years in the USA.
Victorian preteen Samantha Parkington was the primary character to get the film remedy with The Carrie Diaries’ AnnaSophia Robb portraying the titular position within the 2004 vacation flick. Woodley, for her half, was the following starlet to steer an American Lady movie the next 12 months, taking part in Pioneer-era Felicity Merriman in Felicity: An American Lady Journey.
The American Lady motion pictures — all direct-to-DVD productions or net collection — every spotlight a unique doll’s story. Rodrigo, for her half, landed her first main performing position as “Lady of the Yr” Grace Thomas in An American Lady: Grace Stirs Up Success.
Black-ish alum Marsai Martin later introduced doll Melody Ellison to life in her personal American Lady film, which was set in opposition to the civil rights motion in Alabama within the Nineteen Sixties.
“Earlier than I shot the film, I used to be not conscious of a few of the issues that my grandparents needed to undergo simply due to the colour of their pores and skin,” Martin, then 12, instructed CelebSecrets.com in October 2016, referring to the racial inequality of the period. “Hopefully this film will give children, dad and mom and grandparents a possibility to speak in regards to the previous, so we don’t repeat these errors sooner or later.”
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