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Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story

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Director
  
Michael Ray Rhodes

Duration
  

Initial DVD release
  
December 20, 2005

Writer
  
John Wells

Language
  
English

6.4/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Biography, Drama

Running time
  
1h 51m

Cinematography
  
Mike Fash

Country
  
United States

Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story movie poster

Release date
  
September 27, 1996

Cast
  
Moira Kelly
(Dorothy Day),
Martin Sheen
(Peter Maurin),
Lenny Von Dohlen
(Forster Batterham),
Melinda Dillon
(Sister Aloysius),
Paul Lieber
(Mike Gold),
Heather Graham
(Maggie Bowen)

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Entertaining Angels: the Dorothy Day Story is a 1996 independent film about the life of Dorothy Day, the journalist turned social activist and founder of the Catholic Worker newspaper. The film stars Moira Kelly as Day, Heather Graham, Lenny Von Dohlen and Martin Sheen.

Writer John Wells and actors Kelly and Sheen also collaborated in the NBC dramatic series The West Wing. Kelly and Von Dohlen previously appeared in David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.

Cast

  • Moira Kelly as Dorothy Day
  • Martin Sheen as Peter Maurin
  • Lenny Von Dohlen as Forster Batterham
  • Heather Graham as Maggie Bowen
  • James Lancaster as Eugene O'Neill
  • References

    Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story Wikipedia
    Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story IMDb Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story themoviedb.org