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The Kennedys: On-screen and in real life As a new Kennedy documentary about Ethel comes to HBO, take a look back at Camelot and the family’s portrayals on film and TV.
Filmmaker Rory Kennedy has made "Ethel," an HBO documentary about her mother’s life. “’Ethel’ is first and foremost a daughter’s ode to her mother, and for that alone, it works beautifully. It’s also a love story,” wrote TV critic Hank Stuever.
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Rory Kennedy, left, and Ethel Kennedy pose for a portrait during the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. “It was difficult to get my mother and other family members to live through some of the more difficult moments again,” said Rory Kennedy. “But there are a lot of joyful moments, too.”
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Newlyweds Ethel Skakel and Robert F. Kennedy leave St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Greenwich, Conn., on June 17, 1950.
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Robert F. Kennedy poses with his wife, Ethel, at the doorway as they arrive to attend a dinner with members of the Kennedy family Jan. 17, 1961. The affair was held at the home of Mrs. Jean Kennedy Smith, a sister of Robert F. Kennedy and the then-president-elect John F. Kennedy.
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Ethel Kennedy is shown with her five children and their pony, Toby, at their McLean home in 1957. Joseph, 4, is feeding Toby, while Kennedy is holding 6-month-old Mary Courtney. In the cart, from left, are Kathleen, 5, Bobby, 3, and David, 1.
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Robert F. Kennedy, then chief counsel of the Senate Labor Rackets Committee, carries his pajama-clad young son Joe over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes as his wife, Ethel, laughs while trying to fend off another son during bedtime roughhouse, at home.
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This is the view President Lyndon B. Johnson and his guests had of the closing session of the Democratic convention in Atlantic City on Aug. 27, 1964. From left, Ethel Kennedy and her husband, Robert F. Kennedy; Lady Bird Johnson and her husband, the president; Muriel Humphrey; Luci Johnson; and Lynda Johnson.
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Then-U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and his wife, Ethel, at the convention of the New York State AFL-CIO in New York on Sept. 2, 1964. Kennedy was given an overwhelming standing vote of support during the meeting. With him are, from left, Louis Hollander, secretary-treasurer of the state AFL-CIO; Raymond R. Corbett, president of the state AFL-CIO; and Harry Van Arsdale Jr., president of the New York Central Labor Council.
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Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy on the trail for the 1968 Oregon primary.
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Ethel Kennedy is escorted by her brother-in-law Sen. Edward M. Kennedy to their pew in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York for the funeral services of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy on June 8, 1968.
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Ethel Kennedy holds her daughter Rory Elizabeth Catherine during a meeting with reporters at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington on Dec. 19, 1968. The widow of Sen. Robert Kennedy and her 11th child left the hospital with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. Ethel Kennedy paused to reveal the name of the baby.
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From left, actors Steven Culp as U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Bruce Greenwood as President John F. Kennedy and Kevin Costner as presidential aide Kenny O'Donnell in the 2000 film “Thirteen Days,” about the Cuban Missile Crisis — one of many depictions of the Kennedy family on film and TV.
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New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) is confronted by reporters in Oliver Stone's 1991 film ”JFK.”
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Actor Tom Hanks shakes hands with President John F. Kennedy in a digitally altered scene from the 1994 film “Forrest Gump.”
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Marnie McPhail as Ethel Kennedy and Linus Roache as Robert F. Kennedy in FX's "RFK."
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Heather Graham, left, Martin Sheen, center, and Helen Hunt star in Emilio Estevez's ”Bobby,” which tells the story of people who witnessed Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination.
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Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore as Big and Little Edie, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s eccentric cousins, in HBO’s remake of “Grey Gardens,” based on the 1975 documentary of the same name.
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Ethel Kennedy, center, is pictured with the Kennedy family and others as they pose on the Edmund Pettus Bridge before the 47th recreation of the "Bloody Sunday" civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery in Selma, Ala., on March 4, 2012. From left are Chris Kennedy, Ethel Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy and Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland.
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Ethel, left, and Rory Kennedy pose to promote "Ethel." “It’s the hardest movie I’ve ever made,” Rory Kennedy said. “It’s not my comfort zone.”
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