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Laurie Kahn-Leavitt. Raising money for "A Midwife's Tale" Raising the money for this film probably took as much time as making this film, as is the case with most small budget, independent films.
"Tupperware offered opportunities women weren't going to get working in factories, on the farm, or at the five-and-dime," says the film's director, producer, and writer, Laurie Kahn-Leavitt, who completed the documentary while a fellow at Harvard's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History.
Laurie Kahn-Leavitt ’78. Conducting research at the Smithsonian Institution, filmmaker Laurie Kahn-Leavitt ’78 uncovered the papers of Earl Silas Tupper, who invented Tupperware, and Brownie Wise, who built an empire for Tupper by inventing the Tupperware party and recruiting an army of women to sell Tupper’s wares.
Feb 9, 2004 · A new film documents Tupperware's early history, and its impact on American culture. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Laurie Kahn-Leavitt, the documentary's producer, writer and director.
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Laurie Kahn-Leavitt is a visiting scholar at the Women’s Studies research Center at Brandeis University, where she is working on a new series of films exploring the history of women in America. She has worked on numerous documentaries including American Experience, Eyes on the Prize, America’s Civil Rights Years 1954-65, and Frontline ...
Jan 18, 1998 · Laurie Kahn-Leavitt, the film's producer and writer, realized the material's potential. While working for ''The American Experience,'' she was reading diaries of the post-Revolutionary period.
Apr 19, 2006 · THE NONPROFIT Smithsonian Institution and television's for-profit Showtime Networks are teaming up. The plan is to create programming based on the many remarkable collections housed at the ...
