The Life Story of a Legend... in Her Own Words
Told through performances, TV interviews, home movies, family photographs, private letters and unpublished memoirs, the film reveals the essence of an extraordinary woman who rose from humble beginnings in New York City to become a glamorous international superstar and one of the greatest artists of all time.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and nostalgic.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Maria CallasSelf (archive footage)
- Joyce DiDonatoSelf - Narrator / Voice of María Callas (voice)
- King Edward VIII of the United KingdomSelf (archive footage)
- Wallis SimpsonSelf (archive footage)
- Aristotle OnassisSelf (archive footage)
- Giovanni Battista MeneghiniSelf (archive footage)
- Rudolf BingSelf (archive footage)
- David FrostSelf (archive footage)
- Barbara WaltersSelf (archive footage)
- Elvira de HidalgoSelf (archive footage)
Crew
- Tom VolfDirector
- Janice JonesEditor
- Thierry BizotProducer
- Emmanuel ChainProducer
- Gaël LeiblangProducer
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