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Barbara Hussie (1920-1997) was an American women producer and director of documentary films for the US Information Agency, one of the few women to create films for the organization.
Early Life and Career[edit]
Hussie was born in Pennsylvania, attended Germantown Highschool, and worked for WFIL radio station in Philadelphia[1]. In 1950, she moved from being CBS script secretary to the newly created post of casting director for Hollywood.[2] After having worked for a New York advertising agency and volunteering n the 1952 Republican presidential campaign, [3] she then worked briefly on President Dwight D. Eisenhower's White House staff before joining the Information Agency in 1953.[4]
Her work with the USIA included subjects on black Americans and their contributions to art, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and artifical intelligence. Among her other works was a documentary about the jazz musician Herbie Mann. She retired from the USIA in 1980.
Filmmography[edit]
- Herbie Mann, Man With a Flute (1960), for USIA
- The Filmmaker (1969), written, produced, and directed by, about filmmaker Tom Palazzolo, for USIA
- The American Experience (1971), for USIA, featuring vignettes and readings from American literature of the past two centuries set to "Fanfare for the Common Man" by Aaron Copland
- Black Scientists and Inventors in the US (1976), for USIA, including stories of over 20 Black achievers such as chemists, technicians, electricians, mathematicians, physicians, physicists, and scientists
- Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution (1977), for USIA, narrated by the actor Moses Gunn
References[edit]
- ^ Going Forward with Radio: As Presented by WFIL, 1947.
- ^ Broadcasting Telecasting 38(15), April 10, 1950, p.46.
- ^ The Philadelphia Inquirer; Friday, February 28, 1997
- ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1997/02/27/the-rev-andrew-kuroda-dies/120d0a56-c0dc-42c3-bde0-ac55e9bd604a/