My Antonia (film)
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My Antonia is a 1995 film
TV movie based on the novel of the same name
written by Willa Cather
. The movie was directed by Joseph Sargent
and starred Jason Robards
, Eva Marie Saint
, and Neil Patrick Harris
. It was filmed in part at the Stuhr Museum
in Grand Island, Nebraska
.
1995 in film
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TV movie based on the novel of the same name
My Ántonia
My Ántonia |accent]] on the first syllable of "Ántonia"), first published 1918, is considered one of the greatest novels by American writer Willa Cather...
written by Willa Cather
Willa Cather
Willa Seibert Cather was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours , a novel set during World War I...
. The movie was directed by Joseph Sargent
Joseph Sargent
Joseph Sargent is an American film director. He has directed many television movies, but his best known feature film works are probably White Lightning, MacArthur, Nightmares and Jaws: The Revenge, with his most popular film being The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. He has won four Emmy Awards...
and starred Jason Robards
Jason Robards
Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. was an American actor on stage, and in film and television, and a winner of the Tony Award , two Academy Awards and the Emmy Award...
, Eva Marie Saint
Eva Marie Saint
Eva Marie Saint is an American actress who has starred in films, on Broadway, and on television in a career spanning seven decades. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama film On the Waterfront , and later starred in the thriller film North by...
, and Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris is an American actor, singer, director, and magician.Prominent roles of his career include the title role in Doogie Howser, M.D., Colonel Carl Jenkins in Starship Troopers, the womanizing Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother, a fictionalized version of himself in the Harold...
. It was filmed in part at the Stuhr Museum
Stuhr Museum
The Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer is a museum located in Grand Island, Nebraska dedicated to preserving the legacy of the Pioneers who settled the plains of central Nebraska in the late 19th century...
in Grand Island, Nebraska
Grand Island, Nebraska
Grand Island is a city in and the county seat of Hall County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 48,520 at the 2010 census.Grand Island is home to the Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center which is the sole agency responsible for training law enforcement officers throughout the state,...
.
Cast
- Jason RobardsJason RobardsJason Nelson Robards, Jr. was an American actor on stage, and in film and television, and a winner of the Tony Award , two Academy Awards and the Emmy Award...
... Josiah Burden - Eva Marie SaintEva Marie SaintEva Marie Saint is an American actress who has starred in films, on Broadway, and on television in a career spanning seven decades. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama film On the Waterfront , and later starred in the thriller film North by...
... Emmaline Burden - Neil Patrick HarrisNeil Patrick HarrisNeil Patrick Harris is an American actor, singer, director, and magician.Prominent roles of his career include the title role in Doogie Howser, M.D., Colonel Carl Jenkins in Starship Troopers, the womanizing Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother, a fictionalized version of himself in the Harold...
... Jimmy Burden - Jan TriskaJan TrískaJan Triska or Jan Tříska is a Czech-American actor.-Early life and career:He was born in Prague. Before his emigration he performed in the theater and had many roles in movies, the movie version of Radúz a Mahulena and in the communist propaganda piece 30 Cases of Major Zeman...
... Mr. Shimerda - Norbert WeisserNorbert WeisserNorbert Weisser is a German-born American film and theatre actor, probably most known for his many roles in Albert Pyun-directed films ....
... Otto - Anne TremkoAnne TremkoAnne Marie Tremko , is an American actress best known for her role as Leslie Burke on Saved by the Bell: The College Years...
... Lena Lingard - Travis FineTravis FineTravis Lane Fine is an American actor, writer, director and producer, perhaps best known for his roles in Girl, Interrupted and The Young Riders.-Personal life:...
... Harry Paine - Mira FurlanMira FurlanMira Furlan is a Croatian actress and singer currently residing in the United States. She is well known for her roles as the Minbari Ambassador Delenn on all five seasons of the science fiction television series Babylon 5 , and Danielle Rousseau on Lost.-Early life:Furlan was born to an...
... Mrs. Shimerda - Boris Lee Krutonog
- Elina LöwensohnElina LöwensohnElina Löwensohn is a Romanian-born American actress.-Biography:Löwensohn was born in Bucharest, Romania. After the death of her father, a survivor of Nazi concentration camps, her mother emigrated to the United States with her, where her mother went on a hunger strike in order to get a visa for...
... Antonia Shimerda - Bobby Goldstein ... Ambrosch Shimerda
- T. Max GrahamT. Max GrahamNeil Graham Moran , known professionally as T. Max Graham, was an American actor. He played the owner of the pencil factory in David Lynch's film Eraserhead.-Selected filmography:* Eraserhead...
... Mr. Harling - John Livingston ... Charley Harling
- Sarah BernhardtSarah BernhardtSarah Bernhardt was a French stage and early film actress, and has been referred to as "the most famous actress the world has ever known". Bernhardt made her fame on the stages of France in the 1870s, and was soon in demand in Europe and the Americas...
... Sally Harling - Devon Arielle Cahill ... Nina Harling
- Lauren MontgomeryLauren MontgomeryLauren Montgomery is a film animation director and storyboard artist. She is noted for her storyboard work for animated television and DVD movie features...
... Yulka Shimerda - Cinnamon Schultz ... Helga
- Megan Birdsall ... Margaret
- Lemarrt Holman ... Blindman Arnault
- Abby Sullivan ... Mrs. Carlsen
- Betty Laird ... Mrs. Vannis
- Brendan McCurdyBrendan McCurdyBrendan McCurdy is an American television actor. He was born in Glendale, Arizona on June 28, 1984. His big break was when he appeared in the 1993 ABC-TV movie They've Taken Our Children: The Chowchilla Kidnapping starring Karl Malden, which is sometimes shown on the Biography Channel...
... Ambrosch Cuzak - Ian Atwood ... Leo Cuzak
- Peggy Freisen ... A woman (as Peggy Friesen)
- Joan Hennecke ... Another woman
- Tom Wees ... Conductor
- Brad Boesen ... Traveling Salesman
- Endre Hules ... Russian Peter
- Boris Lee Krutonog ... Russian Pavel
- Olek KrupaOlek KrupaAleksander Krupa , often credited as Olek Krupa, is a Polish actor best known for playing villains and/or criminals, such as in Blue Streak and Home Alone 3...
... Krajiek - Kyla PrattKyla PrattKyla Alissa Pratt is an American actress and singer.-Early life:Pratt was born in Los Angeles, the oldest of five children of Kecia Pratt-McCullar, a schoolteacher, and Johnny McCullar, a semi-professional basketball player....
... Yulka Cuzak - Myra TurleyMyra TurleyMyra Turley is an American film and television actress, best-known as "Dale" in the 1995 sitcom,Muscle, and as "Madeline Evelley" in Clint Eastwood's Academy Award-winning movie Flags of Our Fathers....
... Mrs. Harling - Blair Williamson ... Marek Shimerda