Who was America’s most famous woman in the 1920s?In this video, Dr. W. Robert Godfrey describes Aimee Semple McPherson, founder of the Quadrangular Gospel Church, who not only influenced the Pentecostal movement, but also impressed artists like Anthony Quinn and Charlie. Chaplin.
An interesting testimony about Aimee Semple McPherson’s skill came from author Anthony Quinn. Some of you will remember him as a very distinguished actor in an era of American cinema.
- One day.
- They interviewed him about his past experiences and asked.
- “What were his greatest influences during his youth?”Without hesitation.
- He said 😕 Aimee Semple McPherson ?.
- The interviewer got a little scared and the actor said.
- “When I was 16.
- My Mexican grandmother raised me in Los Angeles.
- She got very sick and we contacted the Temple to see if anyone could come and pray for her.
- And Aimee.
- Semple McPherson came.
- My grandmother didn’t get better right away.
- But yes.
- And Aimee asked me.
- “What are you interested in.
- Young man?”He said he knew how to play the trombone.
- And she said.
- “We have a band there in the temple.
- Come play with them.
- “.
The actor said he went to play with the band and then she invited him to be his translator by the time she was going to preach in Hispanic communities. The interviewer told her, “Well, it must have been a very fun experience,” and said, “I’ve never met a nice person like her, and I’ve never met anyone who could control an audience like her. “He said: “I worked with Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn and none of them compared to Aimee Semple McPherson.
Charlie Chaplin used to go to the Temple and sit in the back, just to see his work, and he was impressed. She was a phenomenon, she was the most famous woman in America in the 1920s. At least once a week, there was a story about him in the Los Angeles Times throughout that decade.
It was a phenomenon, it was remarkable, he foresees, in the madness of Pentecostal cults, what is now called evangelical worship, it was a pioneer, an influence, it is someone to take seriously and to whom we must all remember. because of the impact it had afterwards, but also because it is a window for us to understand what happened in the development of Pentecostalism in the 1920s.