SYNOPSICS
Mabel, Mabel, Tiger Trainer (2018) is a English movie. Leslie Zemeckis has directed this movie. Melissa Leo,Linda Barber,Janet M. Davis,Roger Smith are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2018. Mabel, Mabel, Tiger Trainer (2018) is considered one of the best Documentary movie in India and around the world.
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 and 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 (2018) Reviews
Fascinating Story Told with Humor and Heart
Although I did not know who Mabel Stark was at he beginning of this movie, I felt that I knew her intimately by the end. Leslie Zemeckis tells the story of this complicated, dedicated, and often tragic woman with humor and heart. I found the film compelling, historically accurate, and most of all, interesting from start to finish. I would highly recommend this documentary to history lovers, animal enthusiast, and to anyone who just likes a good story!
My Mentor, Mabel Stark, Revisited and Immortalized by Leslie Zemeckis
Mabel Stark faced childhood abuse, a bad marriage, and literally escaped a Kentucky asylum after commitment by a cruel husband. In desperate flight, she hid out on a carny as a cootch dancer, before her Epiphany moment, in 1911, finding tigers at the Al. G. Barnes Circus quarters, in Venice, California. Leslie Zemeckis expertly folds my interview into these stories, along with Mabel's history of making her way into male-commanded wild animal training, and becoming the star woman tiger trainer of her industry before women were allowed the vote. This is the Leslie Zemeckis signature - she honors great women who did not get indelible fame, and this film honors Mabel Stark for a must-see inspiration. Roger Smith
Fascinating, Powerful, Exciting, Exquisite storytelling by Leslie Zemeckis
This fascinating and powerful story about Mabel Stark's life, one of the first women in the world spending her life as a Tiger trainer in the 1920s had me intrigued from the beginning to the end. Her Passionate journey and devotion for her Tigers is so exquisitely told by Filmmaker Leslie Zemeckis. I highly recommend this must see documentary !
Compelling story of the first woman to big tigers!
Leslie Zemeckis has once again entertained us with a compelling story of a woman who blazed a trail in entertainment. Mabel Stark entertained millions of people with her death defying acts inside the cages of wild animals and Leslie Zemeckis shows us the real story...the woman who loved the big cats and would rather die than lose them. Don't miss this!