The Adventures of Nellie Bly
Follows pioneer nineteenth-century female journalist Nellie Bly and her exposes of corruption in New York City.
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"Linda Purl channels Nelly Bly, a true-to-life early women's libber who proves that the fair sex can become a police beat reporter. Eschewing assignments in the leisure and fashion sections of her newspaper, she ventures into investigative reporting, a journalism category in which she pioneered. She volunteers to go undercover to investigate and consequently expose the abuses going on in a women's asylum. Production value is high with careful stagesetting of architecture and mode of transport characterizing New York of the 1880s. I've always wondered why Purl, who projects mag..."
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Filmed in 1979 but not broadcast until 1981.
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Follows pioneer nineteenth-century female journalist Nellie Bly and her exposes of corruption in New York City.