It's also the story about its price: exhaustion, insomnia, nervous breakdowns, sexual scandals, loneliness, and the notorious public disgrace that nearly destroyed her. It is a fictionalized account of McPhersons 1926 disappearance.
But this is not just a story of McPherson's cult of fame. Sister Aimee is a 2019 American biographical film written and directed by Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann and starring Anna Margaret Hollyman as Aimee Semple McPherson. She prayed for the healing of hundreds of thousands of people, founded the Foursquare Church, and built a Pentecostal temple in Los Angeles of Hollywood-epic dimensions (Charlie Chaplin advised her on sets).
Her ministry was rolled out in tents, concert halls, boxing rings, and speakeasies. She preached up and down the United States, traveling in a 1912 Packard with her mother and her children–and without a man to fix flat tires. Until the moment when, on a whim, she and her father attended the revival meeting conducted by handsome Robert Semple, Aimee had been a confirmed atheist an Nice girls in 1908 did not smoke cigarettes or go to cockfights or seek baptism in. Once she answered the divine calling, Aimee Semple McPherson rose fast from unfulfilled housewife in Rhode Island to "miracle woman"–the most enigmatic, pioneering, media-savvy Christian evangelist in the country. That's what happened to Aimee Kennedy, later to become famous as Sister Aimee, the renowned evangelist. The true story of America's first superstar evangelist that "fills a significant gap in the history of revivalism" (The New York Times Book Review).
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