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’s Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story is a nonfiction biopic about the African-American talent who rose to become the so-called “Architect of the Stars” when Jim Crow was still the scourge of the land. Born 1894 in L.A., Paul Revere Williams’s real-life story of overcoming adversity is remarkable, even if it is unremarkably told in this conventionally albeit professionally made documentary.
To tell this tale the filmmakers who both have news backgrounds, but according to IMDB are newcomers to the documentary medium per se round up the usual cinema suspects for this documentary that aired on PBS in 2020 and is being reprised for PAFF 2021. There are the typical talking heads in presumably original interviews, including Williams’s relatives and celebrities such as Quincy Jones and Marlo Thomas; vintage footage; some relevant movie/TV clips such as of a Williams property in Tinseltown pictures like 1937’s
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