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Stand and Deliver is a 1988 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Ramón Menéndez, written by Menéndez and Tom Musca, based on the true story of a high school mathematics teacher, Jaime Escalante. For portraying Escalante, Edward James Olmos was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 61st Academy Awards. [3]
Vanessa Rosalia Marquez (December 21, 1968 – August 30, 2018) was an American actress. She was primarily known for her recurring role in the first three seasons of ER as nurse Wendy Goldman, [2] as well as her role as Ana Delgado in the 1988 biographical drama film, Stand and Deliver.
Stand and Deliver was filmed before La Bamba, but it was released a year later. Lou Diamond Phillips in 1987, the year that the film " La Bamba " was released In 1988 Phillips co-starred with Emilio Estevez and Kiefer Sutherland in the Western film Young Guns , in which he plays José Chávez y Chávez , a historical Old West outlaw .
Escalante has described the film "Stand and Deliver" as "90% truth, 10% drama." He stated that several points were left out of the film: It took him several years to achieve the kind of success shown in the film. No student who did not know multiplication tables or fractions was ever taught calculus in a single year.
“Radical,” which opens in theaters Friday, is a conventional but stirring entry in the crowded canon of uplifting educator tales like “Stand and Deliver,” “Lean on Me” and “The Class.”
Rosanna DeSoto (born September 2, 1950) [2] is an American actress who has performed in films and television. She is best known for her roles in Stand and Deliver, for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female, [3] [4] and in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country as Azetbur, the daughter of Klingon Chancellor Gorkon.
Luba Popovic/Hallmark Media Notify the mailman, because the Postables are coming back for two new Signed, Sealed, Delivered movies on Hallmark Mystery. Hallmark announced on Wednesday, April 10 ...
Thirteen Signed, Sealed, Delivered movies have aired since 2013; the most recent entry, Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made, aired way back in October 2021.