Jeanette Clift George, although not currently appearing in films, continues her long and varied stage career. Once a working stage actor with years of credits on Broadway, she is now a prolific author, Bible teacher, a much-in-demand speaker, actor, and the director of the A.D. Players, a growing performance ensemble based in Houston. She is a playwright, as well as a greatly gifted actor, but she is remarkable in that she is a terrific humorist as well, as evidenced by her books and plays. As a powerful Christian writer and lecturer – and from her role in “The Hiding Place” – you might assume she is a very serious individual. In fact, she is the sweetest, funniest, most intelligent yet humble persons it has been my great pleasure to meet.
I have been fortunate enough to sit in her Bible study class for the past five years, and it is a great joy to count her a friend. Jeanette remembers the making of “Hiding Place” fondly – especially her meeting Corrie Ten Boom, whom she portrays in the film. These two women came to share a great friendship, before Ms. Ten Boom’s death in 1983. Jeanette remembers her fondly, and still does a wicked impression of “Corrie”, and laughs about the time she was a “movie star”. To catch up on what Jeanette is doing now; visit the Player’s site at www.adplayers.org.
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JIM19642000
20 years ago
I've seen this movie a few times, even read the book. From what I remember, as was posted previously, the book does go into a LOT more detail about how the Ten Boom family decided to hide Jews, it told how they snuck around, getting things they needed, such as that. I'd love to see this again, just to be reminded of how terrible everything was during WWII. Of course, I wasn't around during the war, but it's totally amazing to read or watch true stories about the Holocaust. I, too, would love to be able to go to see the shop, walk where Corrie walked, see where the Jews were hidden. EXCELLENT movie for seeing what it was like.
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MistressIrish
20 years ago
I remember seeing this movie for the first time when I was 9 yoa. It opened my eyes and my heart to what man, at its most destructive, can do. And what the same species is capable of doing during the same period, when they are are pure of heart and soul. I have since read the book, many many times in fact. And just today, came across from the book again, at a coffee house. I am online now in fact, trying to find where I can purchase the movie from. The Movie should be rereleased, for a whole new generation to learn from. What we forget, we are doomed to repeat..
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