The commenter explains: “This book is the winner of the Eliza Atkins Gleason Award and the Willa Literary Award for a nonfiction book from Women Writing the West. The author, Louise Robbins, is not only a professor at the School of Library & Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the former Director of the School, but is also the former Mayor of Ada, Oklahoma and first woman elected to their city council!”
The movie was filmed in Santa Rosa, California in a classic Carnegie library. In 2012, one of the librarians wrote a post for Banned Books Week about the movie and some of the behind-the-scenes details that were described in an article by Ruth Hall who was the librarian at the time of the filming. [photo of Ruth Hall and Bette Davis]
The movie is difficult to find but occasionally a library will screen it because they still deal with censorship. It has received more attention recently from academics and various bloggers, such as this one whose comment from five years ago rings even more true today: “It’s striking how little has changed in fifty-eight years. Oh sure, we like to convince ourselves that we are more evolved than our elders but when it comes right down to it, we are just as susceptible as they were to fear and propaganda.”
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