{"id":33560,"date":"2013-09-11T13:43:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T13:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33560"},"modified":"2015-09-23T20:47:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T20:47:29","slug":"norma-storch-is-dead-at-81-subject-of-tv-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33560","title":{"rendered":"Norma Storch Is Dead at 81; Subject of TV Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/09\/21\/nyregion\/norma-storch-is-dead-at-81-subject-of-tv-documentary.html\" target=\"_blank\">Norma Storch Is Dead at 81; Subject of TV Documentary<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2003-09-21<\/p>\n<p><strong>Douglas Martin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0832416\/\" target=\"_blank\">Norma Storch<\/a>, a white woman whose decision to have her 4-year-old mixed-race daughter raised by a black couple became the subject of an Emmy Award-winning documentary made by the daughter in adulthood, died on Aug. 28 at her home in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manhattan\" target=\"_blank\">Manhattan<\/a>. She was 81.<\/p>\n<p>The cause was cancer, said the daughter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalism.columbia.edu\/profile\/32-june-cross\/104\" target=\"_blank\">June Cross<\/a>, the producer of the documentary, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/shows\/secret\/\" target=\"_blank\">Secret Daughter<\/a>,&#8221; which PBS broadcast in 1996.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dIqrUVpU40M?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The film was heralded as a searing look at race relations in the 1950&#8217;s and 60&#8217;s, and drew praise for its emotional rawness and the bravery of both mother and daughter. Other reviews suggested that the documentary&#8217;s power came from a mother&#8217;s willingness to reject her daughter and then rationalize it.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Cross said in an interview last week that this impression properly reflected the documentary but not their real relationship. She said that tensions were exaggerated for dramatic effect.<\/p>\n<p>But for almost 35 years, Mrs. Storch and her husband\u2014the actor and comedian <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Larry_Storch\" target=\"_blank\">Larry Storch<\/a>, who starred as Cpl. Randolph Agarn in the 1960&#8217;s comedy series &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/F_Troop\" target=\"_blank\">F Troop<\/a>,&#8221;\u2014indisputably lived a lie. They told friends and acquaintances that the black girl who visited them at their <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hollywood\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood<\/a> home was their adopted daughter, who lived with a black family for most of the year&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire obituary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/09\/21\/nyregion\/norma-storch-is-dead-at-81-subject-of-tv-documentary.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norma Storch Is Dead at 81; Subject of TV Documentary The New York Times 2003-09-21 Douglas Martin Norma Storch, a white woman whose decision to have her 4-year-old mixed-race daughter raised by a black couple became the subject of an Emmy Award-winning documentary made by the daughter in adulthood, died on Aug. 28 at her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,8,20,25],"tags":[11881,363,2640,15688,2327],"class_list":["post-33560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-douglas-martin","tag-june-cross","tag-new-york-times","tag-norma-storch","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42863,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33560\/revisions\/42863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}