In addition to her operatic stage roles, Barbara played Marian Anderson in the 1977 ABC movie Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years, and in 1994 followed that performance with a European concert/recital tour commemorating the renowned contralto.
In the 1970s, McCay appeared in Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years, How the West Was Won, and The Lazarus Syndrome.
She also acts in films and on TV, most notably portraying Sara Delano Roosevelt in the TV miniseries Eleanor and Franklin (1976) (for which she won an Emmy) and Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977).
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It appeared in the 1976 television movie Eleanor and Franklin as the funeral car for Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Lilia Skala — Marie Souvestre, Teacher, mentor, close friend of Eleanor's from Allenswood
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It is the first part in a two-part biopic based on Joseph P. Lash's Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling biography with the same title.
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Anna Lee — Laura Delano, FDR's cousin at the Little White House when he passed