The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter

The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter

Infobox_Film
name = The Life and Time of Rosie the Riveter


imdb_id = 0081053
starring = Wanita Allen
Betty Allie
Gladys Belcher
Lyn Childs
Lola Weixel
Margaret Wright
director = Connie Field
editing = Lucy Massie Phenix
Connie Field
cinematography = Cathy Zheutlin
Bonnie Friedman
Robert Handley
Emiko Omori | distributor = Clarity Films
First Run Features
producer = Connie Field
released = September 27, 1980
runtime = 65 min
language = English
budget =
amg_id = 1:29199
website =

"The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter" is a 1981 documentary film by Connie Field about the American women who went to work during World War II to do "men's jobs." In 1996, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

The film's title refers to "Rosie the Riveter," the cultural icon that represented women who manned the manufacturing plants which produced munitions and material during World War II.

Connie Field got the idea for the film from a California “Rosie the Riveter Reunion”, and, with grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and other charitable sources, conducted interviews with many hundreds of women who had gone into war work. Out of these she choose five representatives -- three black, two white -- all marvelously lively, intelligent, attractive and articulate women who recall their experiences with a mixtures of pleasant nostalgia and detached bitterness.

The reminiscences are inter cut with the realities of the period – old news, films, recruiting trailers, March of Time ad pop songs such as “Rosie the Riveter”.

External Links

[http://www.clarityfilms.org/rosie/ Official Site]

[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081053/ IMDB]


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