How to Make an American Quilt

film by Moorhouse [1995]

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Angelou

  • Maya Angelou
    In Maya Angelou: Career in film and television

    …as Poetic Justice (1993) and How to Make an American Quilt (1995) and appeared in several TV productions, including the landmark miniseries Roots (1977), which was based on Alex Haley’s 1976 book. Angelou received a Tony Award nomination for her performance in Look Away (1973), despite the fact that the…

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Leto

  • Jared Leto
    In Jared Leto: Early life and career

    …in a small part in How to Make an American Quilt (1995) and then starred as an Irish teenager in the coming-of-age movie The Last of the High Kings (1996; American title Summer Fling). He played the title character in the well-received biopic Prefontaine (1997), about the American distance runner…

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