Nicole Hill
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This American Life
885: Bless This Mess
And so she stays on him for years until he does it.
This American Life
885: Bless This Mess
She becomes his manager, publicist, acting coach on top of her day job.
This American Life
885: Bless This Mess
How we came to love the Robesons.
This American Life
885: Bless This Mess
For the next four years, our 20-something-year-old ancestors grind.
This American Life
885: Bless This Mess
Paul's profile and his star rise and rise until everyone is talking about Paul Robeson.
This American Life
885: Bless This Mess
In 1925, he lands his first film role in a movie called Body and Soul, directed by the hardest-working man in cinema, Oscar Michaud.
This American Life
885: Bless This Mess
And between Paul's acting skills and Essie's PR brilliance, they score invites to house parties in Harlem where they could have run into the likes of Louis Armstrong or Josephine Baker.
This American Life
885: Bless This Mess
So in the movie version, it's wintertime.
This American Life
885: Bless This Mess
It's a Harlem brownstone, so it's loud.