Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Directed by Ken Cameron
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Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood. Her story encompasses everything from the tragic death of a Confederate boy soldier to the feisty narrator's daily battles in the Home--complete with visits from a mohawk-coiffed candy-striper.Read moreLess
Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood. Her story encompasses everything from the tragic death of a Confederate boy soldier to the feisty narrator's daily battles in the Home--complete with visits from a mohawk-coiffed candy-striper.
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Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood. Her story encompasses everything from the tragic death of a Confederate boy soldier to the feisty narrator's daily battles in the Home--complete with visits from a mohawk-coiffed candy-striper.
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Diane LaneLucy Honicut Marsden
Donald SutherlandWilliam Marsden
Cicely TysonCastralia
Anne BancroftLucy Marsden (age 99-100)
Blythe DannerBianca Honicut
E.G. MarshallProfessor Taw
Gwen VerdonEtta Pell
Camille CooperShirey Ann Williams
Maureen MuellerLady Marsden
Kathryn MorrisZondro
Wil HorneffWillie MarsdenExplore the crew
- Writer
- Joyce Eliason
- Editor
- Charles Bornstein
- Producer
- Jack Clements
- Director of Photography
- Edward J. Pei
- Original Music Composer
- Mark Snow
- Producer
- Joyce Eliason
- Editor
- Tod Feuerman
- Director
- Ken Cameron