Sister Aimee

"Saint or sinner?"

At the peak of her immense popularity in the 1920s, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was drawing larger crowds to her revivals than those of P.T. Barnum or Harry Houdini. This chapter of "American Experience" paints a vivid portrait of the controversial and charismatic religious figure. Credited with mainstreaming religion in American culture, Sister Aimee created one of the country's first Christian radio stations, among other accomplishments.

Cast

Blair Brown

Narrator (voice)

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Anthea Butler

Self - Historian

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Daniel Mark Epstein

Self - Biographer

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Matthew Avery Sutton

Self - Biographer

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Randall Balmer

Self - Historian

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Edith Blumhofer

Self - Biographer

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Tona Hangen

Self - Historian

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David Daniels

Self - Historian

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Aimee Semple McPherson

Self (archive footage)

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Robert Orsi

Self - Historian

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Stephen Prothero

Self - Historian

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Wendell St. Clair

Self - Historian