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Biographical drama on Margaret Bourke-White who is best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet Industry, the first female war correspondent (and the first female permitted to work in combat zones) and the first female photographer for Henry Luce's Life magazine, where her photograph appeared on the first cover. She died of Parkinson's disease about eighteen years after she developed her first symptoms.

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Language ‏ : ‎ English
Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.32 x 4.19 x 1.12 inches; 6.13 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Lawrence Schiller
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 34 minutes
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ August 17, 2005
Actors ‏ : ‎ Farrah Fawcett, Frederic Forrest
Studio ‏ : ‎ Turner Home Entertainment
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000AYKV46

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BlackDogs

An incomplete story

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2009

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The focus of this movie is more about Margaret Bourke-White's rocky relationship with second husband Erskine Caldwell than about her life as a whole. There is noting about her childhood, family life or how she first got a start in photography. I was expecting this movie to showcase more of her life and how she got to be who she was. Though they make it clear that her name was "Margaret Bourke-White" through redundant reputation of her name and that she was a photographer, you still barely know to what lengths or what trials she went through too obtain the status she deserves and now receives. There are only brief comments regarding her being a woman doing a "man's" work but nothing about her struggle to get where she did. There are a few short clips that point out a few of the risks she took to get a photograph and they do toss in some of her famous photographs but they are plopped in the movie like an afterthought.

The one and only thing you learn about Ms. Bourke-White is that she had 2 loves. Erskine Caldwell and photography. In the end, photography won. But there is very little in this movie regarding her life before she met Erskine Caldwell or after her divorce. So if you're looking for a movie on a relationship between a photographer and writer, this wasn't bad but if you're looking for a movie about the life of Margaret Bourke-White you will be disappointed with this movie.

I really wouldn't call this the "story" of Margaret Bourke-White.

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blondeguy10

Excellent Performances in Brilliant Bio

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2006

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Double Exposure was the TNT networks first feature film, and deservedly one of the highest rated tv movies at the time. This biography of acclaimed photographer Margaret Bourke White covers her war years as well as her turbulent relationship with writer Erskine Caldwell(well played by Frederic Forest). The movie is brilliantly written and beautifully shot...the scenes of Bourke-Whites and Caldwells trip across depression era US are deeply moving. The earlier scenes wonderfully portray and capture some of Bourke-Whites famous photographs. I cannot praise Farrah Fawcett enough - this has to be one of her best performances and she won the Cable Ace Best Actress award for her role. In fact, although it was made for the small screen it plays like a big screen feature. WHere is the DVD? This film deserves a wider audience.

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John Sentineal

Double Exposure

Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2012

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Hi: Prior to buying this Movie on Amazon, I had not seen the Movie. This Movie featured a 1935 Ford Phaeton that Farrah Fawcett drove as well as her Husband. It had a great deal of exposure in this Movie and this car is in my possession and I'm refurbishing it to Brand new condition. It's a beautiful one of a kind automobile and I'm proud to have it. I thank you very much for the great price and great service on delivering it. It means a great deal to me.

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edward pinnix

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2018

I liked it!

Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2014

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OK! Interesting film for those interested in biographies of famous people. I especially interesting were the scenes shot in Russia/

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Peter Shelley

as a man, she�d have been a hero. As a woman, she�s a legend

Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2001

Based on the biography by Vicki Goldberg, this TVM biopic of photographer Margaret Bourke-White (pronounced Bork) directed by Lawrence Schiller gained some notoriety for being made in competition with the film treatment being prepared for Barbra Streisand by writer Linda Yellen. The Streisand version never materialised, though it's hard to imagine her in the role, since she seems more suitable as a photographer like Diane Arbus.
MBW was a pioneer in the hitherto male-dominated field of photo-journalism, a woman who enjoyed "opening closed doors" and witnessed many of the important events of history. She created iconic images including industrial architecture, Fort Peck Dam on the first cover of Life magazine, Moscow under fire during World War II, survivors of Buchenwald concentration camp, and Mahatma Gandhi at his spinning wheel.
The teleplay by Marjorie David provides some character depth, with scenes that exist for reasons other than to make historical points. It presents a woman who chooses career over love and family, with a large fous on her marriage to writer Erskine Caldwell (Frederic Forrest), with whom she collaborated memorably on the book of Depression southerners You Have Seen Their Faces. David includes such stock lines as Caldwell to MBW "You can't have a life with anyone but yourself" and includes a scene where she cries about the prospect of having a child stopping her from her next assignment. The idea of a fiction writer who by vocation needs isolation, resenting his wife is used to highlight both her long absences and her own celebrity, with David making the point that Caldwell can't object to the very qualities that attracted him initially. She doesn't resolve the criticism of the photographer who "treats people like furniture", though presumably we are meant to find that ok considering the resulting image. MBW's feminism is presented as arrogance, particularly with "Do me a favour of not backtracking. Nothing's learned that way", but perhaps because of the casting of Farrah Fawcett, she also is given some flakiness by having a pet snake.
Schiller's biographies have included Marilyn Monroe, Gary Gilmore, Patricia Neal, Lee Harvey Oswald, and JonBenet Ramsay, so he knows how to capture period detail using news newsreel footage and music. He intercuts scenes of MBW's preparations with the final real photo, and it's perhaps his experience that makes Fawcett look so good. She deepens her voice to portray a predominantly humourless person, though one who is constantly being told how beautiful she is. Forrest also adds some pleasing eccentricity to his Caldwell, and in spite of the weaker position he is given in the arguments with Fawcett, he retains our empathy.

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