Blaze

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Blaze

governor louisiana civil rights stripper based on memoir or autobiography

Blaze

Release Date: December 15, 1989

Year    :   1989
Slogan    :   «A governor. A stripper. Forced to chose between the office he held and the woman he loved, he chose both.»
Genres    :   Drama, Romance
Production Companies    :   Touchstone Pictures
Director    :   Ron Shelton
Producers    :   Victoria Thomas, David V. Lester, Dale Pollock, Don Miller, Gil Friesen, Wendy Dozoretz
Writers    :   Ron Shelton, Blaze Starr, Huey Perry
RunTime    :   117 mins.
Revenue    :   19131000

This movie tells the story of the latter years of Earl Long, a flamboyant governor of Louisiana. The aging Earl, an unapologetic habitue of strip joints, falls in love with young stripper Blaze Starr. When Earl and Blaze move in together, Earl's opponents use this to attack his controversial political program, which included civil rights for blacks in the 1950's.




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