Little Satchmo

[Played Nov. 12 on AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on various VOD platforms.] John Alexander's fascinating, insightful, heartbreaking, in-depth, one-hour documentary based on Sharon Louise Preston-Folta's memoir Little Satchmo: Living in the Shadow of My Father, Louis Daniel Armstrong in which the secret adult daughter of Louis Armstrong, who always dreamed of having a child, uses archival film clips, photographs, private cassette recordings, and letter excerpts to candidly tell the story of her childhood living with her dancer mother Lucille "Sweets" Preston who had a 20-year affair with the legendary jazz musician who refused to acknowledge his daughter's existence publicly.
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