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NOVA - Typhoid Mary: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781593751777
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 159375177X
Label: WGBH Boston
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Manufacturer: WGBH Boston
MPN: D38049D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: WGBH Boston
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 04, 2005
Running Time: 60 minutes
Studio: WGBH Boston
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
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Editorial Review:
Interweaving biography and social history, The Most Dangerous Woman in America tells the extraordinary story of Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary. She gained this notoriety by being the first person in North America to be identified as a healthy carrier of typhoid fever. Despite her indignant protests of innocence, she was incarcerated for years on an island in New York's East River. Mary Mallon's saga throws into vivid relief the emerging science of public health and the social, ethical, and legal dilemmas it posed to its pioneers at the turn of the twentieth century. Special DVD features include: materials and activities for educators; a link to the NOVA Web site; scene selections; closed captions; and described video for the visually impaired. On one DVD5 disc. Region coding: All regions. Audio: Dolby stereo. Screen format: Letterboxed.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A glitzy production.
The picture on the disc's case is a plain drawing, in brown and white. But what we find on the disc is a glitzy, professional production. Roughly equal amounts of time are spent showing these three things:
(1) Two actors, representing Typhoid Mary and George Soper, giving monologues, (2) Archival generic black and white motion pictures and stills showing squalid living conditions in New York City or Ireland, and (3) Interviews with present-day academics filmed in color.
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Rating:  - Typhoid Mary Comes Alive
This is a solid film about Mary Mallon (aka Typhoid Mary) and the efforts of the New York Board of Health to prevent her from spreading typhoid fever. Mary's is an interesting story. She was a poor Irish immigrant who worked as a cook for upper class New Yorkers in the early 1900s. Although she was a carrier for typhoid fever, she was not herself sick. Over the course of her career she gave a total of 47 people typhoid fever, 3 of whom died. Although she was identified as a potential carrier early ... Read More
Rating: - Be Careful With That Home Made Peach Ice Cream!
This is another well produced NOVA offering that this time centers on the infamous "Typhoid Mary!" I've heard the name/ phrase all my life but never really knew it referred to a real person with a real story until viewing this DVD. Her story is well told through dramatic reenactments supposedly using the character's real words, vintage photos, and modern day health and historical experts. And whether Mary was an unknowing victim or a vindictive villain is given fair coverage without reaching a real conclusion. ... Read More
Rating: - Mary, Mary, quite contrary (spolier warning)
Mary Mallon was an Irish immigrant who worked as a cook to several wealthy families. Unfortunately, she was also a healthy carrier of typhoid and most of the families she worked for became sick, some people actually died. As a result she was quarantined twice on an island for individuals similar to herself, the second time was for the remainder of her life.
This was a good documentary: it interweaved re-enactments, interviews from historians, mock interviews from the character actors as the real life participants, ... Read More
Rating: - Really Eye Catching
This Nova episode is something I saw on TV last evening.I knew about Typhoid Mary from historical legend but knew nothing about the facts.And as the actress portraying her so bluntly put it her NAME was Mary Mallon,an Irish immigrant cook living in New York at the turn of the 20'th century.And as this show so properly points out was responcible for one of the most mysterious and often deadly epidemics of the day.Only trouble is that in some significant ways Mary Mallon didn't come off as a particularly sympathetic character ... Read More
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