Photo: Oprah Winfrey on the U.S. Presidential drive trail
with Chicagoans Barack as well as Michelle Obama
Originally named "Orpah" Gail Winfrey on Jan 29, 1954 inward Mississippi, Ms. Winfrey would hold to decease a leading idiot box speak present host, celluloid actress, producer as well as philanthropist. She is the showtime Black adult woman as well as solely the tertiary adult woman inward history, behind Mary Pickford as well as Lucille Ball, to ain a celluloid production studio. Harpo Studios, located inward Chicago, serves every bit a will to Winfrey's historic legacy.
Photo: Harpo Studios is located on the Westside of Chicago, Illinois
at 1058 W. Washington Boulevard
Entrance agency into The Oprah Winfrey Show inward Chicago
on the production campus of Harpo Studios
The edifice construction that right away houses the Harpo Studio production facilities was originally built inward the early on 1900s. In 1952 the 88,000 foursquare pes complex was converted into a production studio. In 1988, Winfrey purchased it as well as completely renovated it into a state-of-the-art, Hollywood-quality celluloid production as well as post-production facility.
Trailblazing Black Media Professional
The Oprah Winfrey present began amongst a record-breaking launch inward to a greater extent than than 130 markets inward September 1986. She was the showtime Black adult woman to host a nationally syndicated speak present inward the United States. It is currently seen inward to a greater extent than than 99% of the soil as well as inward to a greater extent than than 100 unusual markets yesteryear millions of viewers. The studio receives several thou letters weekly from fans or as well as then the globe.
Photo: O, The Oprah Magazine
In add-on to producing a monthly impress magazine, "O, The Oprah Magazine," Oprah has committed herself to bringing high lineament production to both the big as well as niggling screen. Harpo Studios produces "The Oprah Winfrey Show" as well as has produced film productions. This includes the ABC Theater Presentation of "There Are No Children Here" (1993), and the mini-series "The Women of Brewster Place" (1989), based on the mass yesteryear author Gloria Naylor. In 2005, the idiot box celluloid movie "There Eyes Were Watching God," based on the mass of the same bring upward yesteryear American anthropologist, writer, as well as folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, was every bit good produced yesteryear Harpo Studios.
Photo: Oprah Gaile Winfrey (born Jan 29, 1954) at her
50th birthday political party at Hotel Bel-Air, Los Angeles (2004)
Championing Education Among Black South Africans In Jan 2007, Winfrey investment of fourth dimension and $40 million resulted inward the opening of the
Nelson Mandela praised Winfrey for overcoming her challenging atmospheric condition as well as growing to endure of service to others.
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