UCLA Film & Television Archive is pleased to collaborate with Autry National Center in an ongoing, occasional series of films that represent the idea of the West in American popular culture.
The Imagined West
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Ellen Burstyn won both an Oscar and a British Academy Film Award for her performance in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974), Martin Scorsese's tender portrait of a single mother with a young son in post-Vietnam America. The film inspired the hit comedy TV series "Alice," broadcast by CBS from 1976-'85.
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