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Mrs. America is based on and dramatizes the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and the unexpected backlash led by conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, played by Blanchett.
Mrs. America: Created by Dahvi Waller. With Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Elizabeth Banks, Uzo Aduba. Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly leads an unexpected fight against the Equal Rights Amendment movement during the 1970s.
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- 2020-04-15
- Biography, Drama, History
- 51
- Cornelia Channing
- Phyllis Schlafly (Cate Blanchett) Just as in real life, Phyllis Schlafly, the show’s prim, blond antihero, built her career advocating for traditional women’s roles and mobilizing conservative opposition to the women’s liberation movement.
- Fred Schlafly (John Slattery) In the show, Fred Schlafly (John Slattery) is portrayed as the sort of benignly patronizing male figure that has become familiar from period dramas like Mad Men, in which Slattery also starred.
- The Note-Taking Incident. Early episodes depict Schlafly repeatedly being belittled, ignored, and harassed in her political dealings by men less qualified and knowledgeable than she is.
- Alice (Sarah Paulson) In the show, Schlafly becomes politically interested in the ERA after her friend Alice (Sarah Paulson), a housewife and homemaker, expresses fears that the amendment would eliminate benefits like alimony and Social Security and result in women being drafted into the military.
mrs. AMERICA - 2020 - DRAMA - CATE BLANCHETTMrs. America recounts the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and the unexpected backlash led by ...
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The political movement in the 1970s on the Equal Amendment Right for women in the US.
FX’s Mrs. America tells the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and the unexpected backlash that forever shifted the political landscape.
“Mrs. America” tells the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly, aka “the sweetheart of the silent majority.”
