Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer Official DVD
Product Description
Available in the US only.
Language: English
"I like to do something that no other person can do. They say a woman didn't have brains enough to do that, and they dared me to do it, so here I am." -Mabel Stark
BONUS FEATURES:
Trailers
Closed Captions
SYNOPSIS:
Raised in poverty in Kentucky, Mabel Stark joined the circus in 1911 and became the first woman to train tigers, earning the center ring despite being told that women couldn't work the big cats. In a 57-year career, she headlined shows with Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey, survived multiple maulings and marriages, starred in Hollywood movies, and managed up to 20 cats by forming intimate relationships with each, rather than using the whip. Her life ended tragically just outside of Jungleland in Thousand Oaks, CA, and her legacy and the golden era of the American circus is recounted by former animal trailers, performers and historian Janet Davis, with Mabel's voice, from her memoir "Hold That Tiger", provided by Oscar-winner Melissa Leo. MABEL, MABEL, TIGER TRAINER is written, produced and directed by Leslie Zemeckis (BEHIND THE BURLY Q, BOUND BY FLESH) and produced by Sheri Hellard, Jacqueline Levine and Robert Zemeckis.
MABEL, MABEL, TIGER TRAINER is the third documentary by award winning documentarian Leslie Zemeckis about the world’s first female tiger trainer, Mabel Stark.
During the heyday of the circus, Stark thrilled audiences with her 18 Sumatran Tiger act, the meanest of all tigers with Stark surviving countless life-threatening maulings. Her body was a "network of scars".
Born into poverty in Tennessee, Stark was raised on a tobacco farm in Kentucky. She ran away, eventually joining the circus as a cooch dancer. Always an outsider, Stark clawed her way up to the circus hierarchy, working with goats, riding the horses and training lions. But it was the tigers she fell in love with.
It wouldn't be until she married a renowned big-cat trainer that she was given a chance with the ‘stripes.’ The marriage wouldn't last (nor would the three or four that followed), but Stark's enduring love for the tigers would.
She hand-raised many tigers, walking them on the beach of Venice, California, and tucking them in to sleep at home.
Eventually, she taught one tiger a wrestling act that horrified the gasping audience as the 300 – 400 pound animal leapt onto Stark's back and brought her to the ground. Nothing stood between the petite blonde woman and death, save a whip and a chair.
Stark was determined that nothing, and no one would get in the way of her relationship with the cats; not even a husband who was an embezzler.
During the 1920s and '30s, there was no bigger name than Stark's on the circus marquee, and for more than 30 years she trained and performed at the renowned Jungleland in Thousand Oaks, site of movies such as DOCTOR DOOLITTLE and all of the TARZAN films. She also worked Hollywood films, doubling for Mae West.
MABEL is the story of a woman who would do anything for her tigers.
"It is a matchless thrill and a life without it is not worthwhile"¦ I hope each new season until my number is up will find me shouting "Let them come." -Mabel Stark
As the world of the circus, an American institution for decades, is being phased out today, Mabel Stark"s world will never be seen again. The documentary reveals Stark’s story is told in her words, as well as those of her relatives, proteges, and today"s female tiger trainers who follow in her footsteps.
FILM INFO
Film Title: Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer
Film Website: http://MabelTigerMovie.com
Facebook: MabelTigerMovie
Twitter: @MabelTigerMovie
DVD STREET DATE: 04/10/2018
GENRE: Documentary, Political
RATING: NR
AUDIO: Stereo
RATIO: 1080p 16:9 Widescreen
LANGUAGE: English
Director: Leslie Zemeckis
Distributor: Cinema Libre Studio
Language: English
"I like to do something that no other person can do. They say a woman didn't have brains enough to do that, and they dared me to do it, so here I am." -Mabel Stark
BONUS FEATURES:
Trailers
Closed Captions
SYNOPSIS:
Raised in poverty in Kentucky, Mabel Stark joined the circus in 1911 and became the first woman to train tigers, earning the center ring despite being told that women couldn't work the big cats. In a 57-year career, she headlined shows with Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey, survived multiple maulings and marriages, starred in Hollywood movies, and managed up to 20 cats by forming intimate relationships with each, rather than using the whip. Her life ended tragically just outside of Jungleland in Thousand Oaks, CA, and her legacy and the golden era of the American circus is recounted by former animal trailers, performers and historian Janet Davis, with Mabel's voice, from her memoir "Hold That Tiger", provided by Oscar-winner Melissa Leo. MABEL, MABEL, TIGER TRAINER is written, produced and directed by Leslie Zemeckis (BEHIND THE BURLY Q, BOUND BY FLESH) and produced by Sheri Hellard, Jacqueline Levine and Robert Zemeckis.
MABEL, MABEL, TIGER TRAINER is the third documentary by award winning documentarian Leslie Zemeckis about the world’s first female tiger trainer, Mabel Stark.
During the heyday of the circus, Stark thrilled audiences with her 18 Sumatran Tiger act, the meanest of all tigers with Stark surviving countless life-threatening maulings. Her body was a "network of scars".
Born into poverty in Tennessee, Stark was raised on a tobacco farm in Kentucky. She ran away, eventually joining the circus as a cooch dancer. Always an outsider, Stark clawed her way up to the circus hierarchy, working with goats, riding the horses and training lions. But it was the tigers she fell in love with.
It wouldn't be until she married a renowned big-cat trainer that she was given a chance with the ‘stripes.’ The marriage wouldn't last (nor would the three or four that followed), but Stark's enduring love for the tigers would.
She hand-raised many tigers, walking them on the beach of Venice, California, and tucking them in to sleep at home.
Eventually, she taught one tiger a wrestling act that horrified the gasping audience as the 300 – 400 pound animal leapt onto Stark's back and brought her to the ground. Nothing stood between the petite blonde woman and death, save a whip and a chair.
Stark was determined that nothing, and no one would get in the way of her relationship with the cats; not even a husband who was an embezzler.
During the 1920s and '30s, there was no bigger name than Stark's on the circus marquee, and for more than 30 years she trained and performed at the renowned Jungleland in Thousand Oaks, site of movies such as DOCTOR DOOLITTLE and all of the TARZAN films. She also worked Hollywood films, doubling for Mae West.
MABEL is the story of a woman who would do anything for her tigers.
"It is a matchless thrill and a life without it is not worthwhile"¦ I hope each new season until my number is up will find me shouting "Let them come." -Mabel Stark
As the world of the circus, an American institution for decades, is being phased out today, Mabel Stark"s world will never be seen again. The documentary reveals Stark’s story is told in her words, as well as those of her relatives, proteges, and today"s female tiger trainers who follow in her footsteps.
FILM INFO
Film Title: Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer
Film Website: http://MabelTigerMovie.com
Facebook: MabelTigerMovie
Twitter: @MabelTigerMovie
DVD STREET DATE: 04/10/2018
GENRE: Documentary, Political
RATING: NR
AUDIO: Stereo
RATIO: 1080p 16:9 Widescreen
LANGUAGE: English
Director: Leslie Zemeckis
Distributor: Cinema Libre Studio