Norma Storch (mother) is married to actor Larry Storh who starred in the TV comedy F-Troop in the mid 1960's. June Cross (daughter) is a television producer for the PBS series "Frontline."Would you like to make a playlist based on your queue? Storch had placed Lary with various caretakers as she pursued her acting career. June Cross's research into racial definitions and 'passing' eventually led her to explore her own family lineage with the help of Mario de Valdes y Cocom, a longtime researcher on the African diaspora. We'll hear from Norma Storch and June Cross, who are featured in this week's Frontline program entitled "Secret Daughter." ISIS' growing foothold in Afghanistan is captured on film.FRONTLINE producer June Cross tells the intricate story of her own family through the prism of the changing face of race relations in America.
Get this from a library! Ms. Cross said that Candace and the Storches were reunited after Candace read an article about the documentary in People magazine.In addition to June Cross and Lary May, Mrs. Storch is survived by her husband, who lives in Manhattan; her daughter Candace Herman of Los Angeles; and six grandchildren.Norma Storch, a white woman whose decision to have her 4-year-old mixed-race daughter raised by a black couple became the subject of an Emmy Award-winning documentary made by the daughter in adulthood, died on Aug. 28 at her home in Manhattan. The story of June Cross, 'secret' daughter of a white woman and a black man, and her efforts to understand her family They said they had sent the girl to live with black friends of theirs, which was true.Mrs. Other notable producers of multiple Frontline documentaries have included Sherry Jones, Marian Marzynski, Miri Navasky, Karen O'Connor, June Cross, Neil Docherty, Stephen Talbot, Raney Aronson, Rachel Dretzin, James Jacoby and Rick Young. African-American History and Culture Programs. June Cross Latest Documentary Battle For Hong Kong Support Provided By Learn more See What FRONTLINE Is Working On Now Get Our Newsletter 56:29 The … [1996-11-26], Secret daughter. Directed by John Baynard, June Cross.
In one scene in the documentary, she laughs nervously when her mother says she would have aborted her if she had had enough money.In 1947, she had a brief romance with Larry Storch, and gave birth in 1948 to a daughter, Candace, whom they put up for adoption. With June Cross, Ken Berry, James Cross, Jerry Lewis.
She told People magazine that she felt only ''detached curiosity.''Neither did Ms. Cross, even after graduating from Harvard and making a successful career as a television producer, with PBS's MacNeil-Lehrer Report, then at CBS News and later with ''Frontline'' on PBS.Mrs. A rich cache is uncovered: June's connection to the Pierce line which includes Abraham Pearce, one of the first two African Americans in the Northeast.
As of July 2016, Frontline has won a total of 75 Emmy Awards and 18 Peabody Awards. ''We saw no reason to rock the boat.''But Ms. Cross said she came to appreciate the decision her mother had made when she was a little girl. But Cross's mother was afraid her husband's career would be destroyed if the truth about Cross was discovered, so she kept her a secret. Cross said in an interview last week that this impression properly reflected the documentary but not their real relationship.
We'll hear from both mother and daughter as they reflect back. Storch asked two friends, a middle-class black couple in Atlantic City, to raise June. We'll hear from both mother and daughter as they reflect back. After they took her in, Mrs. Storch cried every night, developed shingles and wrote daily letters to the girl, according to the documentary.The cause was cancer, said the daughter, June Cross, the producer of the documentary, ''Secret Daughter,'' which PBS broadcast in 1996.Mrs.