Directing

Perry Miller Adato

Born — Died

1920-12-22 — 2018-09-16

Place of birth

Yonkers, New York, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

14 titles

Perry Miller Adato (1920-2018) was an American documentary film producer, director, and writer whose work focused primarily on other artists. The subjects of her work included poets Gertrude Stein and Carl Sandburg and painters Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keeffe.

Known for

Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences poster
8.0

Perry Miller Adato's first attempt to combine documentary techniques with dramatic re-enactment. The film uses actor John Cullum both as himself and to play the young Sandburg in short dramatic sequences. In search of Sandburg, Cullum travels to the poet's native home, Galesburg, Illinois speaking with close friends and family of the writer. Through a remarkable recently discovered trove of period photographs of Galesburg, the small-town America of Sandburg's childhood - the horse carriages, the ice-man delivering ice, a Fourth of July celebration - is revived in vivid detail.

Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences

1982

Mary Cassatt: Impressionist From Philadelphia poster
NR

This documentary portrait is the first to celebrate the only American member of the French Impressionist school and the first American woman to become a famous painter. 'Mary Cassatt Impressionist From Philadelphia' is not only a biography of the artist’s life and work; the film sees both in the context of the status of the woman painter in Victorian America in the second half of the 19th century.

Mary Cassatt: Impressionist From Philadelphia

1977

Paris: The Luminous Years poster
5.0

A storm of Modernism swept through the art worlds of the West in the early decades of the twentieth century, uprooting centuries of tradition. The epicenter of this storm was Paris, France. For an incandescent moment from 1905 to 1930, Paris was the magnetic center for radical innovation and experiment, and the Mecca for creative talents who would change the course of art throughout the Western world.

Paris: The Luminous Years

2010

No artwork available
8.0

Documentary about radio comedies primarily focused on Burns & Allen, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, The Jack Benny Program, Fibber McGee & Molly, The Bob Hope Show, and The Fred Allen Show.

The Great Radio Comedians

1971

No artwork available
NR

Filmed on location in Asia, four beloved stories of India, Indonesia, Korea and Japan are told thru the masterpieces of visual art and the stirring performances these tales have inspired for centuries.

Great Tales in Asian Art

1995

Gertrude Stein: When You See This, Remember Me poster
8.0

The thoughts, words, and compelling presence of Gertrude Stein flows richly through this portrait of the author's Paris years from 1905 through the 1930s.

Gertrude Stein: When You See This, Remember Me

1970

Behind the camera

Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences poster
8.0

Perry Miller Adato's first attempt to combine documentary techniques with dramatic re-enactment. The film uses actor John Cullum both as himself and to play the young Sandburg in short dramatic sequences. In search of Sandburg, Cullum travels to the poet's native home, Galesburg, Illinois speaking with close friends and family of the writer. Through a remarkable recently discovered trove of period photographs of Galesburg, the small-town America of Sandburg's childhood - the horse carriages, the ice-man delivering ice, a Fourth of July celebration - is revived in vivid detail.

Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences

1982

Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences poster
8.0

Perry Miller Adato's first attempt to combine documentary techniques with dramatic re-enactment. The film uses actor John Cullum both as himself and to play the young Sandburg in short dramatic sequences. In search of Sandburg, Cullum travels to the poet's native home, Galesburg, Illinois speaking with close friends and family of the writer. Through a remarkable recently discovered trove of period photographs of Galesburg, the small-town America of Sandburg's childhood - the horse carriages, the ice-man delivering ice, a Fourth of July celebration - is revived in vivid detail.

Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences

1982

Mary Cassatt: Impressionist From Philadelphia poster
NR

This documentary portrait is the first to celebrate the only American member of the French Impressionist school and the first American woman to become a famous painter. 'Mary Cassatt Impressionist From Philadelphia' is not only a biography of the artist’s life and work; the film sees both in the context of the status of the woman painter in Victorian America in the second half of the 19th century.

Mary Cassatt: Impressionist From Philadelphia

1977

Mary Cassatt: Impressionist From Philadelphia poster
NR

This documentary portrait is the first to celebrate the only American member of the French Impressionist school and the first American woman to become a famous painter. 'Mary Cassatt Impressionist From Philadelphia' is not only a biography of the artist’s life and work; the film sees both in the context of the status of the woman painter in Victorian America in the second half of the 19th century.

Mary Cassatt: Impressionist From Philadelphia

1977

Paris: The Luminous Years poster
5.0

A storm of Modernism swept through the art worlds of the West in the early decades of the twentieth century, uprooting centuries of tradition. The epicenter of this storm was Paris, France. For an incandescent moment from 1905 to 1930, Paris was the magnetic center for radical innovation and experiment, and the Mecca for creative talents who would change the course of art throughout the Western world.

Paris: The Luminous Years

2010

Paris: The Luminous Years poster
5.0

A storm of Modernism swept through the art worlds of the West in the early decades of the twentieth century, uprooting centuries of tradition. The epicenter of this storm was Paris, France. For an incandescent moment from 1905 to 1930, Paris was the magnetic center for radical innovation and experiment, and the Mecca for creative talents who would change the course of art throughout the Western world.

Paris: The Luminous Years

2010

No artwork available
8.0

Documentary about radio comedies primarily focused on Burns & Allen, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, The Jack Benny Program, Fibber McGee & Molly, The Bob Hope Show, and The Fred Allen Show.

The Great Radio Comedians

1971

No artwork available
8.0

Documentary about radio comedies primarily focused on Burns & Allen, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, The Jack Benny Program, Fibber McGee & Molly, The Bob Hope Show, and The Fred Allen Show.

The Great Radio Comedians

1971

No artwork available
NR

Filmed on location in Asia, four beloved stories of India, Indonesia, Korea and Japan are told thru the masterpieces of visual art and the stirring performances these tales have inspired for centuries.

Great Tales in Asian Art

1995

Gertrude Stein: When You See This, Remember Me poster
8.0

The thoughts, words, and compelling presence of Gertrude Stein flows richly through this portrait of the author's Paris years from 1905 through the 1930s.

Gertrude Stein: When You See This, Remember Me

1970

Gertrude Stein: When You See This, Remember Me poster
8.0

The thoughts, words, and compelling presence of Gertrude Stein flows richly through this portrait of the author's Paris years from 1905 through the 1930s.

Gertrude Stein: When You See This, Remember Me

1970

Georgia O'Keeffe poster
NR

Georgia O'Keeffe appears on camera for the first time to talk candidly about her work and her life in this 1977 documentary.

Georgia O'Keeffe

1977

Frankenthaler: Toward a New Climate poster
NR

A 30-minute film about Helen Frankenthaler, who invented the stained canvas at the age of 24 and influenced a whole generation of "color field" painters.

Frankenthaler: Toward a New Climate

1978

Frankenthaler: Toward a New Climate poster
NR

A 30-minute film about Helen Frankenthaler, who invented the stained canvas at the age of 24 and influenced a whole generation of "color field" painters.

Frankenthaler: Toward a New Climate

1978