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White House Press Secretary
Incumbent
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
since July 26, 2017
Office of the Press Secretary
Appointer
President of the United States
Formation
March 4, 1929; 88 years ago (1929-03-04)
First holder
George Akerson
Website
White House Press Office Press Briefings
The White House Press Secretary is a senior White House official whose primary responsibility is to act as spokesperson for the executive branch of the United States government administration, especially with regard to the President, senior executives, and policies.
The press secretary is responsible for collecting information about actions and events within the president's administration and issues the administration's reactions to developments around the world. The press secretary interacts with the media, and deals with the White House press corps on a daily basis, generally in a daily press briefing.
The press secretary serves by the appointment of and at the pleasure of the president; the office does not require the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate, though because of the frequent briefings given to the media, who in turn inform the public, the position is still a very prominent non-Cabinet post.
The current Press Secretary is Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Contents
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1 History
1.1 Presidential-press relations prior to the establishment of the role
1.2 Cleveland and McKinley administrations
1.3 White House Press Corps
1.4 Working space in the White House for the press corps
1.5 Woodrow Wilson administration
1.6 Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover administrations
1.7 Roosevelt Administration, Steve Early, and the first "White House Press Secretary"
1.8 Eisenhower Administration, James Hagerty, press secretary role evolves
2 Responsibilities
3 List of press secretaries
4 References
5 External links
History[edit]
Presidential-press relations prior to the establishment of the role[edit]
In August 2006, President George W. Bush hosted seven White House Press Secretaries before the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room underwent renovation. From left, Joe Lockhart, Dee Dee Myers, Marlin Fitzwater, Bush, Tony Snow, Ron Nessen and James Brady (seated) with his wife Sarah Brady.
During the United States' somewhat early years, the White House staff or various White House Offices were not as robust as they are today and there was not a single designated staff person or office responsible for managing the relationship between the president and the growing number of journalists and media entities that were covering him.[1] It was not until after President Abraham Lincoln's administration that Congress formally appropriated funds for a White House Staff, which at first consisted merely of a Secretary.[1] Ulysses S. Grant's White House Staff officially numbered six people at a cost of $13,800, though he supplemented with personnel from the War Department.[1] Fifty years later under the Coolidge Administration, the staff had increased to just fewer than fifty people at a cost of nearly $100,000.[1]
As presidents increasingly hired more staff to support them in the execution of their duties, some showed a tendency to pick aides and confidantes who had backgrounds in the field of journalism.[1] One of Abraham Lincoln's private secretaries, John G. Nicolay, had been an editor and owner of a newspaper in Illinois before he worked for the President in the White House.[2] While the modern equivalent of a private or personal secretary to the President of the United States would be more narrowly concerned with the care and feeding of the president,[3] the small size of the White House staff at that point meant that Nicolay interacted with the press occasionally in carrying out his duties.[2] He was occasionally asked to verify stories or information that various members of the press had heard.[2] Though the title and establishment of the roles and responsibilities of the press secretary job was still decades in the future, the small and growing White House staff was increasingly interacting with a growing number of professional journalists and mass media entities covering the president and the White House.[2] Andrew Johnson was the first president to grant a formal interview request to a reporter, sitting down with Col. Alexander K. McClure from Pennsylvania.[4] It should be noted that while various presidents and reporters had participated in conversations or dialogues prior to Johnson, the exchanges had been less formal.[5]
Cleveland and McKinley administrations[edit]
Prior to the 1880s and the presidency of Grover Cleveland, the relationship between the president, his administration, and the small but growing number of newspapers covering him was such that there was little need for a formal plan or designated spokesperson to manage it.[1] The relationship between government and the press was not as inherently adversarial and arms length as in modern times. In fact, prior to the establishment of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), some newspapers were awarded contracts to print government publications and often awarded the president with support in exchange.[1] For example, the Gazette of the United States won an early U.S. Treasury contract and was supportive of then-President Washington.[1] In general, though coverage of the president could be harsh and opinionated, newspapers were to some degree extensions of the political party apparatus and subsequently not seen as entities requiring specific, sustained management by the White House or administration.
The media had changed significantly by 1884, when Grover Cleveland was elected as President of the United States. Between the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and 1884, the United States had quadrupled in size and increased in population from 2.5 million to 56 million.[4] The number of newspaper publications in active circulation had increased from 37 to more than 1,200 dailies, in addition to the many new monthly magazines.[4] The rapid growth in journalism as a booming industry resulted in an increase in reporters covering the activities of the president.[6]
Grover Cleveland married 21-year-old Frances Folsom in 1886. The growing number of reporters and the increasing aggressiveness of their style of coverage led to frustrations when the President and his new bride were unable to rid themselves of reporters who followed them to their honeymoon in Deer Park, Maryland.[6] President Cleveland relied on his private secretary, Daniel Lamont, who had once been an editor of the Albany Argus, to keep the reporters at bay.[6] The controversy surrounding coverage of the trip resulted in a public debate about the balance between the right of the President and his family to privacy and the role of the press in covering the country's most public figure.[7] In an editorial, the New York World defended the right of the press to cover the president at all times:
The idea of offending the bachelor sensitiveness of President Cleveland or the maidenly reserve of his bride has been far from anybody's thought...We must insist that the President is public property; that it is perfectly legitimate to send correspondents and reporters to follow him when he goes on a journey, and to keep watch over him and his family.[7]
The debate over the coverage of Grover Cleveland's honeymoon is not dissimilar from disagreements between the first family and the press within the last decade. Even before he was president, then-Senator Obama became irritated with his campaign press pool when he felt they were too close to him and his daughters as they trick or treated on Halloween.[8]
White House Press Corps[edit]
At the end of the Cleveland administration, a new feature of press coverage of the White House materialized. William W. Price, a southern reporter, auditioned for a job at the Washington Evening Star by stationing himself at the White House to seek out stories.[9] He interviewed guests coming and going from meetings or events with the President and ultimately reported a story in a piece carrying the headline "At the White House".[9] Competitor newspapers responded by sending their own reporters to cover the White House in a daily, sustained way and soon the White House had reporters dedicated to covering the "White House beat." Some point to this as the early origins of a more formal White House Press Corps.[9]
When President Cleveland was elected to a second, non-consecutive term in 1893, George B. Cortelyou, formally trained as a stenographer, was named confidential stenographer at the White House and later named executive clerk.[10] Though he was not given the formal title of private secretary to the president until later and the term press secretary had not yet been conceived, Cortelyou was highly respected by the press and William McKinley's biographer, Margaret Leach, called Cortelyou "the first of the presidential press secretaries".[10] President Cleveland's successor, William McKinley, kept Cortelyou on during the transition and later formally named him private secretary to the President, though he had been informally doing the job for some time prior.[11] Under McKinley, Cortelyou became notable for his popularity with journalists covering the White House.[12] The correspondents relied on him for information and his tenure as private secretary was noteworthy for some of the same working traits modern press secretaries have become popular for,[13] including providing information to reporters later in the evening if events had transpired in the afternoon, offering advance copies of remarks prepared for the President, and ensuring reporters received transcripts of unprepared remarks made by the President while traveling, which were recorded by a stenographer.[12] Cortelyou also circulated noteworthy stories to the President and other staffers (by this point the White House staff numbered approximately 18),[11] which is similar to the exhaustive news summaries formally distributed to the White House staff in the modern era.[14] The nascent press corps' appreciation for Cortelyou's responsiveness is similar to how a modern White House Press Secretary's responsiveness to the press corps can shape their positive or negative view of him or her.[15]
Working space in the White House for the press corps[edit]
The White House "beat" concept that had been started during the Cleveland administration by reporter William Price was continued during the McKinley administration.[11] Around the time of the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in 1898, the reporters covering the White House were invited into the mansion itself and provided with space to write, conduct interviews, and generally cover the White House.[11] Now reporting from inside the White House, the reporters used their new location to interview guests entering or leaving the White House or confirm pieces of information from the president's secretaries as they passed through in the course of their duties. Reporters working in the White House did, however, honor an unspoken rule and refrain from asking the president himself a question if he happened to walk through their working area.[11]
The long-term presence of the White House Press Corps in the White House was cemented by Theodore Roosevelt, who asked that planners include permanent space for the press corps in the executive office building now called the West Wing, which he had ordered built in the early 1900s.[16] It is the West Wing that ultimately housed the Office of the Press Secretary[17] and the now-famous James S. Brady press briefing room, which was redone by the George W. Bush administration in 2007.[18]
Woodrow Wilson administration[edit]
When Woodrow Wilson was elected Governor of New Jersey in 1910, he asked Joseph P. Tumulty to serve as his Private Secretary.[19] When he was elected president two years later, he brought Tumulty with him to the White House, where Tumulty served as Private Secretary to the President.[19] As private secretary, Tumulty dealt extensively with the press.[20] At the outset of the administration, Tumulty convinced Wilson, who was known for his distaste of the press,[19] to hold news conferences on a regularized schedule, sometimes as much as twice every week.[21] During the first such news conference, over one hundred reporters crowded into Wilson's office to ask him questions.[22] Wilson often requested that reporters not publish answers given in these settings and on one occasion threatened to cancel the news conferences when a reporter revealed comments he had given regarding Mexico.[22] The press conferences were later discontinued after the sinking of British liner Lusitania, and despite attempts to revive them during his second term were held only sporadically during Wilson's final years in office.[23]
Joseph Tumulty also put into place a more regular schedule of briefing the press.[22] He gave daily briefings to the press in the morning, which were attended by as many as thirty reporters.[22] By formalizing the press briefing process, Tumulty laid the groundwork for what would later be called the White House Press Briefing.[24] Tumulty also worked to clarify embargo rules for the press, ordering that the exact time a press embargo was lifted be noted on the confidential information that was being released.[24]
Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover administrations[edit]
Despite being nicknamed "Silent Cal", many reporters covering the White House found President Calvin Coolidge to be fairly accessible once he took office in 1923 following the death of President Warren G. Harding.[25] During his over five years in office, Coolidge held approximately 520 press conferences, which averaged out to nearly 8 per month.[25] The term "White House spokesman" was used extensively for the first time during the Coolidge administration, as press conference rules mandated that reporters could attribute quotes or statements only to a "White House spokesman" and not directly to the President himself.[25] Some have said that this practice was a precursor to the more modern use of "senior administration official"[26] offering statements or quotes not directly attributable to a specific person, which was used frequently by Henry Kissinger during the Nixon administration.[27]
When Herbert Hoover assumed the presidency in 1929, he brought his longtime aide George Akerson to Washington with him as his private secretary.[28] Akerson did not have the formal title of "press secretary", but was the designated person to speak on behalf of President Hoover.[28] Hoover asked the White House Correspondents Association to form a committee to discuss matters pertaining to coverage of the White House and formalized news conferences, dividing presidential news into three different categories:
Announcements directly attributable to the President of the United States,
Statements attributable to official sources, but not to the President himself, and
Background information for the reporter's knowledge but not specifically attributable to the President nor the White House[29]
George Akerson continued the tradition of meeting daily with reporters, and though usually of jovial temperament, was not known for the precision that was the hallmark of some of his predecessors, such as Cortelyou.[30] On one occasion, he incorrectly stated that sitting Supreme Court Justice Harlan Stone had been elevated to be Chief Justice, only to have to issue a statement later that the actual nominee was Charles Evans Hughes.[30] Akerson also struggled at times with his role in a growing White House staff.[30] Akerson was one of three secretaries to the President, and some speculated that Hoover's closeness to his other secretary, Lawrence Richey, a former detective and Secret Service agent, made it difficult for Akerson to obtain the kind of information he needed to effectively do his job.[30] As poor coverage made President Hoover appear detached and out of touch amidst a worsening depression, Richey and Akerson disagreed about the most effective press strategy, with Akerson promoting the idea that Hoover should leverage the increasingly influential platform of radio, and Richey arguing that the radio strategy was not worthy of the presidency.[31] Akerson resigned not long thereafter, and Theodore Joslin, a former reporter, was named as the new secretary.[31] Relations between the Hoover Administration and the press continued to decline.[32]
Roosevelt Administration, Steve Early, and the first "White House Press Secretary"[edit]
During the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, former journalist Stephen Early became the first White House secretary charged only with press responsibilities.[32] The manner in which Early approached his portfolio and increasingly high-profile nature of the job have led many to state that Early is the first true White House Press Secretary, both in function and in formal title.[32] Prior to joining the Roosevelt campaign and administration Early had served as an editor to the military paper Stars and Stripes and also as a reporter for the Associated Press.[33] When Roosevelt was nominated on James Cox's ticket as the vice presidential nominee in 1920, he asked Early to serve as an advance representative.[33] As an advance representative, Early traveled ahead of the campaign, arranged for logistics and attempted to promote positive coverage for the candidates.[33]
When President Roosevelt won the presidency in 1932, he chose Early to be his secretary responsible for handling the press, or as the role was becoming known, "the press secretary."[34] After accepting the job, Early laid out for Roosevelt his vision of how the role should be conducted.[34] He requested having unfettered access to the President, having his quotes and statements directly attributable to him as press secretary, and offering as much factual information to the press as it became available.[34] He also convinced Roosevelt to agree to twice-weekly presidential press conferences, with the timing of each tailored to the different deadline schedules of the White House Press Corps.[34] Early also made himself available to the press corps as often as he could, and though he was not known for a lighthearted or amiable demeanor, he earned a reputation for responsiveness and openness, even having his own telephone number listed unlike some of those who held the job after him.[34]
Despite the unpopularity of press conferences by the end of the Hoover administration, Roosevelt continued the tradition.[35] He did away with written questions submitted in advance and mandated that nothing he said in press conferences could be attributed to him or the White House, but was instead intended for reporters' general background information.[35] Many reporters found this helpful as it allowed the President to be forthright and candid in his assessments and answers their questions.[35] Unlike some of his predecessors who filled the role, Early routinely prepared Roosevelt for press conferences, bringing the President's attention to issues that might come up, suggesting the appropriate answers, and even planting questions or issues with certain reporters.[36] Press conferences also began a tradition where the senior wire reporter concludes the session by stating, "Thank you, Mr. President", signaling that the time for questioning is over,[36] a tradition that continues today.[37] Roosevelt held well over 300 press conferences during his first term.[36]
Though some reporters were unsatisfied with the amount of real news or new information they were getting from the press conferences, the Roosevelt administration under Early's leadership was considered by many to be effective at managing the White House's relationship with the press.[38] During the administration, U.S. News reported that "The machinery for getting and giving the news runs about as smoothly as could be wished from either side."[38]
The Roosevelt White House was also marked by a significant increase in the number of White House staff supporting the President and bureaucracy in general, largely as a result of increased New Deal funding.[39] Early was criticized at times for attempting to closely manage press officers at various department and agencies across the government, and gave out a number of such jobs to journalists who he knew, instead of party loyalists who had traditionally received such appointments.[40] A congressional investigation several years later revealed that across government, fewer than 150 employees were engaged in public relations along with an additional 14 part-time workers.[40] This is a significant increase given that White House staff numbered at 11 in total when Roosevelt took office.[38]
Early was involved in Roosevelt taking advantage of the radio medium through his fireside chats, an idea some say he got from George Akerson who had unsuccessfully tried to convince President Hoover to do something similar.[41] Early also came under fire for the rules surrounding African American journalists not being allowed to attend presidential press conferences.[42] Some have said that Early used enforcement of the standing rule, which had been to only allow regular Washington journalists to attend the press conferences, to deny press conference access to black reporters.[42] Since many if not most black publications at the time were weeklies, they were restricted as a result of the rules.[42] When African American reporters from daily publications requested access to the conferences, Early reportedly told them to seek accreditation from Capitol Hill press officers, which was another sometimes insurmountable challenge.[42] African American reporters did not gain formal approval to attend White House news conferences until 1944.[42]
Early's tenure as press secretary was also marked by stringent restrictions on photographers, largely aimed at hiding the severity of FDR's polio and worsening immobility.[43] Photographers were not permitted to be closer than 12 feet of FDR, or 30 feet in larger events.[43]
As a result of the increasingly high-profile nature of the job and Early's sole responsibility of managing the White House press operations, it was during the Roosevelt administration that Early and the position he held began to be formally referred to as the press secretary.[44] As a result, many point to Steve Early as the first White House Press Secretary.[44]
Eisenhower Administration, James Hagerty, press secretary role evolves[edit]
As a candidate for president, Dwight D. Eisenhower tapped James Hagerty, a former reporter for the New York Times, to be his press secretary.[45] Hagerty had previously been press secretary for New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey during his two tries for the presidency. After he won election, Eisenhower appointed Hagerty to be White House Press Secretary.
Hagerty's experience as a journalist helped him perform his role more effectively: "Having spent years as a reporter on the other side of the news barrier, he was not blinded to the reporter's dependence on deadlines, transmission facilities, prompt texts of speeches and statements and the frequent necessity of having to ask seemingly irrelevant and inconsequential questions", wrote John McQuiston in the New York Times".[45]
At Hagerty's first meeting with White House reporters on January 21, 1953, he laid down ground rules that are still largely a model for how the press secretary operates. He said:
I would like to say to you fellows that I am not going to play any favorites, and I'm not going to give out any exclusive stories about the President or the White House.
When I say to you, 'I don't know,' I mean I don't know. When I say, 'No comment,' it means I'm not talking, but not necessarily any more than that.
Aside from that, I'm here to help you get the news. I am also here to work for one man, who happens to be the President. And I will do that to the best of my ability.[45]
The practice of regularly scheduled presidential news conference was instituted during the Eisenhower Administration. Hagerty abolished the longstanding rule that the president could not be directly quoted without permission—for the first time, everything that the president said at a press conference could be printed verbatim.
In 1955, during the Eisenhower administration, newsreel and television cameras were allowed in presidential news conferences for the first time.[45]
When President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack in Denver in September 1955, and underwent abdominal surgery the following year, Hagerty brought news to the nation in a calm and professional manner. "His performances in both crises won him more respect from newsmen than any Presidential press secretary in memory", said a New York Times writer.[45]
Hagerty remained press secretary for eight years, still the record for longest time served in that position. Eisenhower grew to trust Hagerty to such a degree that the role of press secretary was elevated to that of a senior advisor to the president.
Responsibilities[edit]
The press secretary is responsible for collecting information about actions and events within the president's administration and around the world, and interacting with the media, generally in a daily press briefing. The information includes items such as a summary of the president's schedule for the day, whom the president has seen, or had communication and the official position of the administration on the news of the day.
The press secretary traditionally also fields questions from the White House press corps in briefings and press conferences, which are generally televised, and "press gaggles", which are on-the-record briefings without video recording, although transcripts are usually made available.
The position has often been filled by individuals from news media backgrounds:
Roosevelt administration – Stephen Early, a reporter for United Press International and correspondent for The Associated Press.[46]
Truman administration – Jonathan W. Daniels, a newspaper man who was in the Franklin Roosevelt administration in multiple agencies and on various boards just prior to becoming press secretary;[47] Charlie Ross, a journalist who received the Pulitzer Prize in 1932;[48] Early; Joseph Short, a newspaper man;[49] and Roger Tubby, a reporter and editor turned Democratic National Committee spokesman before becoming White House Press Secretary[50]
Eisenhower administration – James C. Hagerty, a reporter for the New York Times[51]
Kennedy administration – Pierre Salinger, a reporter and editor for the San Francisco Chronicle[52]
Johnson administration – appointed George Christian, a reporter for International News Service[53] and PBS Commentator Bill Moyers[54]
Ford administration – appointed Jerald terHorst, a newspaper veteran;[55] and Ron Nessen, an NBC News correspondent[56]
Reagan administration – Larry Speakes, a newspaper man;[57] and Marlin Fitzwater, a newspaper man[58]
George H. W. Bush administration – Marlin Fitzwater[58]
George W. Bush administration – Tony Snow, a veteran journalist and Fox News anchor[59]
Obama administration – Jay Carney, Time magazine journalist.[60]
List of press secretaries[edit]
#
Officeholder
Term start
Term end
Term duration
President
1 George E. Akerson March 4, 1929 March 16, 1931 7002742000000000000♠2 years, 12 days Herbert Hoover
2 Theodore Joslin March 16, 1931 March 4, 1933 7002719000000000000♠1 year, 353 days
3 Stephen Early March 4, 1933 March 29, 1945 7003440800000000000♠12 years, 25 days Franklin D. Roosevelt
4 Jonathan W. Daniels March 29, 1945 May 15, 1945 7001470000000000000♠47 days
Harry S. Truman
5 Charlie Ross May 15, 1945 December 5, 1950 7003203000000000000♠5 years, 204 days
Stephen Early
Acting December 5, 1950 December 18, 1950 7001130000000000000♠13 days
6 Joseph Short December 5, 1950 September 18, 1952 7002653000000000000♠1 year, 288 days
7 Roger Tubby September 18, 1952 January 20, 1953 7002124000000000000♠124 days
8 James Hagerty January 20, 1953 January 20, 1961 7003292200000000000♠8 years, 0 days Dwight D. Eisenhower
9 Pierre Salinger January 20, 1961 March 19, 1964 7003115400000000000♠3 years, 59 days John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
10 George Reedy March 19, 1964 July 8, 1965 7002476000000000000♠1 year, 111 days Lyndon B. Johnson
11 Bill Moyers July 8, 1965 February 1, 1967 7002573000000000000♠1 year, 208 days
12 George Christian February 1, 1967 January 20, 1969 7002719000000000000♠1 year, 354 days
13 Ron Ziegler January 20, 1969 August 9, 1974 7003202700000000000♠5 years, 201 days Richard Nixon
14 Jerald terHorst August 9, 1974 September 9, 1974 7001310000000000000♠31 days Gerald Ford
15 Ron Nessen September 9, 1974 January 20, 1977 7002864000000000000♠2 years, 133 days
16 Jody Powell January 20, 1977 January 20, 1981 7003146100000000000♠4 years, 0 days Jimmy Carter
17 James Brady1 January 20, 1981 March 30, 1981/
January 20, 1989 7001690000000000000♠69 days/7003292200000000000♠8 years, 0 days Ronald Reagan
Larry Speakes1
Acting March 30, 1981 February 1, 1987 7003213400000000000♠5 years, 308 days
18 Marlin Fitzwater1
Acting: 1987–1989 February 1, 1987 January 20, 1993 7003218000000000000♠5 years, 354 days
George H. W. Bush
George Stephanopoulos2
De facto January 20, 1993 June 7, 1993 7002138000000000000♠138 days Bill Clinton
19 Dee Dee Myers2, 3 January 20, 1993 December 22, 1994 7002701000000000000♠1 year, 336 days
20 Mike McCurry December 22, 1994 August 4, 1998 7003132100000000000♠3 years, 225 days
21 Joe Lockhart August 4, 1998 September 29, 2000 7002787000000000000♠2 years, 56 days
22 Jake Siewert September 30, 2000 January 20, 2001 7002112000000000000♠112 days
23 Ari Fleischer January 20, 2001 July 15, 2003 7002906000000000000♠2 years, 176 days George W. Bush
24 Scott McClellan July 15, 2003 May 10, 2006 7003103000000000000♠2 years, 299 days
25 Tony Snow May 10, 2006 September 14, 2007 7002492000000000000♠1 year, 127 days
26 Dana Perino September 14, 2007 January 20, 2009 7002494000000000000♠1 year, 128 days
27 Robert Gibbs January 20, 2009 February 11, 2011 7002752000000000000♠2 years, 22 days Barack Obama
28 Jay Carney February 11, 2011 June 20, 2014 7003122500000000000♠3 years, 129 days
29 Josh Earnest June 20, 2014 January 20, 2017 7002945000000000000♠2 years, 214 days
30 Sean Spicer January 20, 2017 July 21, 2017[61][62] 7002182000000000000♠182 days Donald Trump
31 Sarah Huckabee Sanders July 26, 2017[63][64] Current
1Brady formally retained the title of Press Secretary until the end of the Reagan Administration in 1989, but he did not brief the press after he was shot in the 1981 assassination attempt. Speakes and Fitzwater served as de facto press secretaries.
2Stephanopoulos briefed the press during his term as Director of Communications, despite Myers formally holding the title.
3First female press secretary.
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Rita, Sue and Bob Too
Directed by
Alan Clarke
Produced by
Oscar Lewenstein
Sanford Lieberson
Written by
Andrea Dunbar
Starring
Michelle Holmes
Siobhan Finneran
George Costigan
Lesley Sharp
Music by
Michael Kamen
Cinematography
Ivan Strasburg
Edited by
Steve Singleton
Distributed by
Channel 4
Release date
29 May, 1987
Running time
89 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Rita, Sue and Bob Too is a 1987 British comedy-drama film directed by Alan Clarke, set in Bradford, West Yorkshire about two teenaged schoolgirls who have a sexual fling with a married man.[1] It was adapted by Andrea Dunbar, based on two of her stage plays; Rita Sue and Bob Too (1982) and The Arbor (1980),[2] which was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London. The strapline of the film was: "Thatcher's Britain with her knickers down."[2]
Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Filming locations
4 Reception
5 References
6 External links
Plot[edit]
Rita and Sue are two teenaged girls in their final year of school who live on a run down council estate in Bradford. To earn some money, they babysit for Bob and Michelle (Lesley Sharp), a better-off couple who live in a detached house in a nicer part of town. When the couple return later, Michelle pays the girls and tells Bob to give them a lift home. Bob, however, drives them to an out of the way place to have sex with each of them in the back of his car. They nonchalantly agree, and he and the girls plan to make it a regular thing. By the time they're finished, it's 2 a.m.
Sue sneaks into her house hoping that everyone is in bed. However, her drunken father is waiting for her in the living room, holding a half a snooker cue, threatening to "wrap it round [her] neck". Sue and her parents proceed to argue about why she's home so late, with her mother taking Sue's side. After her father gives up and goes to bed, Sue's mother asks for the truth, but Sue repeats the lie, to her mother's disappointment.
Sue gets a part-time job at a local taxi firm, and meets Aslam (Kulvinder Ghir), a Pakistani boy who drives for the firm. He and another driver make a bet on who can get her into bed first. Sue rebuffs them. At school, Bob shows up at Rita and Sue's P.E. tennis class to take them for a "jump" (sex). Rita manages to get permission from the teacher to use the toilet (a ruse to see Bob); but Sue is denied and told to get back to the class. She takes her anger out on another student. Bob takes Rita to a furnished showhome on a new housing development, where they have sex.
Later on, Michelle finds a package of condoms in Bob's trousers whilst ironing them. Bob tells her that he and his mates were blowing them up like balloons at the pub for fun, but Michelle doesn't believe him and they argue. During the argument, it is revealed that Michelle is reluctant to have sex, which frustrates Bob. It also turns out that Bob previously had an affair, discovered when Michelle found his mistress's bracelet in their bed; the mistress had also been their babysitter. Michelle goes upstairs to get ready for their planned night out, for which Rita and Sue are again babysitting. Bob warns the girls that Michelle is suspicious and will ask them questions and try to trick them. They convince Michelle that Bob isn't sleeping with either of them.
After their night out, Bob and Michelle start arguing again, this time in front of Rita and Sue who desperately try not to laugh. Michelle takes her anger out on them and tells them to stop laughing. She then storms off to bed. Grumpily, Rita and Sue make their own way home, unhappy that Bob can't take them in his car and have sex with them again. That night, Michelle decides to let Bob have sex with her to stop him going off with other women, but it goes badly.
The next day, on a school trip, Sue gets into a fight with a classmate who calls her a "slag" (British slang for a promiscuous woman) because she is rumoured to be seeing a married man. Later, Rita and Sue skip school to go and meet Bob, hoping to make up for the previous night, but Bob can't get an erection, embarrassing himself and leaving Rita and Sue unsatisfied. He takes them out to a club instead, where Michelle's best friend Mavis happens to be, and spots Bob with the girls. Bob warns the girls that Mavis will surely tell Michelle she saw them together.
The next morning, Mavis rushes around to tell Michelle what she saw, and Michelle storms over to Rita's house in Mavis's car. Michelle drags Rita out of her house and into Mavis's car, and takes her to Sue's flat to confront them both, with Bob now in tow. Michelle, Bob, Rita, Sue, and Sue's parents have a big argument in front of all the neighbours, who are all having a good laugh over the spectacle. Michelle blames the girls for being slutty, but Sue retorts that the reason Bob cheats on her is because she doesn't have enough sex with him. Michelle turns on Bob, goes home, ransacks the house, and she and their children leave in a taxi, never to return.
The next day, Sue goes to Rita's house to walk to school together. Rita tells her that she is no longer going to school, because they are due to leave school soon and Bob has asked her to move in with him. She also reveals that she is pregnant with Bob's child. When Bob arrives to take her away, Sue is enraged and tells them both to get lost.
Sue dates Aslam as a rebound to get over Bob and Rita. They go to the cinema, and then off to a grassy hillside spot where they start kissing. Afterwards they go to Sue's flat where Aslam meets her parents. Her father comes home from the pub drunk and shouts racist comments at Aslam, causing Sue to leave home and move in with Aslam and his sister.
Months later, Sue finds out that Rita has miscarried, and visits her in the hospital. On the way out, Bob approaches Sue and invites her for another escapade. Sue refuses, saying she's staying faithful to Aslam, whom she's now living with. After Bob drops Sue off at her house, Aslam attacks Sue, thinking that she was out having sex with Bob.
Later at Bob's house, he and Rita are about to have sex, when Bob accidentally says Sue's name. Angry, Rita leaves to confront Sue. When she gets there, she finds Aslam attacking Sue. Defending her, Rita kicks him in the knees, and then Sue kicks him in his groin, disabling him enough for Sue and Rita to escape. They go back to Bob's house, where Rita tends to Sue's wounds, and Aslam shows up at Bob's door. They refuse to let him in, but Aslam tries to find a way to break in, all the while trying to convince Sue to come back to him. He almost gets in through the patio doors, but Rita runs and locks them. He tries to plead with Sue, threatening suicide if she doesn't come back. The situation is interrupted by the arrival of the police, having been called by a neighbour. Aslam then runs off with the police in pursuit.
When Bob returns home, Rita tells him that she is letting Sue move in with them. They go upstairs and Bob goes to get a bath. When he goes into the bedroom he finds both girls semi-naked in his bed and the film ends with him diving onto the bed.
Cast[edit]
Siobhan Finneran as Rita
Michelle Holmes as Sue
George Costigan as Bob
Lesley Sharp as Michelle
Kulvinder Ghir as Aslam
Willie Ross as Sue's father, Kevin
Danny O'Dea as Paddy
Maureen Long as Rita's mother
Patti Nichols as Sue's mother
David Britton as Rita's brother
Mark Crompton as Rita's brother
Stuart Googwin as Rita's brother
Max Jackman as Rita's brother
Andrew Krauz as Rita's brother
Simon Waring as Rita's brother
Joyce Pembroke as Lawnmower Lil
Jane Atkinson as Helen
Bryan Heeley as Michael
Paul Oldham as Lee
Bernard Wrigley as Teacher
Dennis Conlon as Taxi Driver
Black Lace as themselves
Nancy Pute as Mavis
Paul Hedges as Hosepipe Harry
Kailash Patel as Aslam's Sister
Filming locations[edit]
Some of the filming locations around West Yorkshire include:[3]
Buttershaw – Rita's house; Sue's flat; the school - All of these have now been demolished. The Beacon pub from the very first scene is still on Reevy Road West.
Baildon – Bob's house (Bramham Drive); Moorland scenes.
Bradford – Aslam's house (Alexandra Street); Luna Radio Kars (Leeds Road).
Haworth – The school trip to the Bronte Parsonage.
Reception[edit]
The film gained a mostly positive reception from critics.[4][5][6][7][8][9]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Sheila Benson (25 April 1993). "Two Attempts at Social Comment Hit The Mark". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b Liam Allen (22 October 2010). "The Arbor: In the footsteps of Rita, Sue and Bob". BBC News. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
Jump up ^ "Where was 'Rita, Sue and Bob Too' filmed?". British Film Locations. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
Jump up ^ Janet Maslin (17 July 1987). "Film: Togetherness in 'Rita, Sue and Bob Too'". New York Times. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
Jump up ^ Sheila Benson (20 January 2011). "Movie Review : Love's Got Nothing To Do With 'Rita, Sue & Bob'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
Jump up ^ Sheila Benson (9 August 1987). "3 Savage Commentaries on the British Scene". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
Jump up ^ "'Rita, Sue and Bob, Too' (R)". Washingtonpost.com. 22 August 1987. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
Jump up ^ "Rita, Sue & Bob, Too :: Reviews". Rogerebert.suntimes.com. 2 October 1987. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
Jump up ^ Dave Kehr (2 October 1987). "`Rita` Captures The Spirit of England's Other Side". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
External links[edit]
Rita, Sue and Bob Too on IMDb
Rita, Sue and Bob Too at AllMovie
Rita, Sue and Bob Too at Rotten Tomatoes
Rita, Sue and Bob Too at Box Office Mojo
British Film Institute Screen Online
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Behind Closed Doors (Charlie Rich song)
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"Behind Closed Doors"
Single by Charlie Rich
from the album Behind Closed Doors
B-side
"A Sunday Kind of Woman"
Released
April 1973
Genre
Country
Length
2:56
Label
Epic
Songwriter(s)
Kenny O'Dell
Producer(s)
Billy Sherrill
Charlie Rich singles chronology
"I Take It on Home"
(1972) "Behind Closed Doors"
(1973) "The Most Beautiful Girl"
(1973)
"I Take It on Home"
(1972) "Behind Closed Doors"
(1973) "The Most Beautiful Girl"
(1973)
"Behind Closed Doors" is a country song written by Kenny O'Dell. It was first recorded by Charlie Rich for his 1973 album Behind Closed Doors. The single was Rich's first number-one hit on the country charts, spent 20 weeks on this chart, and was also a crossover hit on the pop charts. It was certified Platinum by the RIAA for U. S. sales in excess of two million copies.[1] Background vocals were provided by The Nashville Edition.
Rich's producer, Billy Sherrill, encouraged O'Dell to write music for the singer. O'Dell recalled the creation of "Behind Closed Doors" to Tom Roland in The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits. "It was just a title I had written down, and I had a little guitar riff that I'd carried with me for a couple of years. The chorus was pretty much a little deviation on that." Sherrill later changed some lines at the end of the second verse, but some radio stations banned the record initially as being racy.[2]
"Behind Closed Doors" earned awards for Song of the Year (for O'Dell) and Single of the Year (for Rich) from both the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music, and Rich also received a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance. In 2003, it ranked #9 in CMT's 100 Greatest Songs in Country Music.
Chart performance[edit]
Chart (1973)
Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 15
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks 8
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 1
Canadian RPM Top Singles 5
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks 37
Irish Singles Chart 9
U.K. Singles Chart 16
Australian Kent Music Report 18
Dutch Top 40 25
Cover versions[edit]
Numerous other artists have covered the song "Behind Closed Doors", using the original or slightly modified lyrics. For example, Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton sang versions in which the genders were reversed and a few words changed or added,[3][4] while Diana Ross sang a version with both gender change and added lines. Other artists who covered this song include Bettye LaVette, Ronnie Milsap, Hank Thompson, Cal Smith, Perry Como, Percy Sledge, Little Milton, Mike Cooley, Stan Ridgway and Tom Jones.
Joe Diffie covered the song on the 1998 album Tribute to Tradition. His version peaked at number 64 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[5]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Stambler, Irwin; Grelun Landon (2000). Country Music: The Encyclopedia (Third ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 400. ISBN 978-0-312-15121-8. Retrieved August 5, 2009.
Jump up ^ Roland, Tom, "The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits" (Billboard Books, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1991 (ISBN 0-82-307553-2), p. 87.
Jump up ^ "Loretta Lynn's ''Behind Closed Doors'' lyrics". Tabcrawler.com. Retrieved 2012-05-12.
Jump up ^ Dolly Parton's Behind Closed Doors lyrics[dead link]
Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Hot Country Songs 1944–2012. Record Research, Inc. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-89820-203-8.
Preceded by
"Superman"
by Donna Fargo Billboard Hot Country Singles
number-one single
April 28, 1973 - May 5, 1973 Succeeded by
"Come Live with Me"
by Roy Clark
RPM Country Tracks
number-one single
May 5, 1973 Succeeded by
"Nobody Wins"
by Brenda Lee
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