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Saint or sinner?
At the peak of her immense popularity in the 1920s, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was drawing larger crowds to her revivals than those of P.T. Barnum or Harry Houdini. This chapter of "American Experience" paints a vivid portrait of the controversial and charismatic religious figure. Credited with mainstreaming religion in American culture, Sister Aimee created one of the country's first Christian radio stations, among other accomplishments.
Directed by Linda Garmon

Blair Brown
Narrator (voice)

Anthea Butler
Self - Historian

Daniel Mark Epstein
Self - Biographer

Matthew Avery Sutton
Self - Biographer

Randall Balmer
Self - Historian

Edith Blumhofer
Self - Biographer

Tona Hangen
Self - Historian

David Daniels
Self - Historian

Aimee Semple McPherson
Self (archive footage)

Robert Orsi
Self - Historian

Stephen Prothero
Self - Historian

Wendell St. Clair
Self - Historian
Meet the Patels
2014