"Audrey's Children" highlights Philadelphia trailblazer
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Dr. Audrey Evans, along with former Philadelphia Eagles general manager Jimmy Murray, gave the families of sick children a home. Evans died in September at the age of 97.
Her story may have started in Philadelphia, but soon, the entire world will know how and why this pioneer changed so many lives.
"In a lot of ways, she was the troublemaker," Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House CEO Susan Campbell said. "She was the troublemaker who made change."
Evans may have been a "troublemaker," but she was also a trailblazer.
She created a home for the families of sick children and that home turned into hundreds of homes across the world.
The rest is history, and that history is being documented even now now.
There is going to be a major motion picture about her life and legacy.
"She is a hero and she's the type of person who deserves to be on screen," Julia Fisher Farbman said.
Filming in Philadelphia has ended.
The project is titled "Audrey's Children."
It stars "Game of Thrones" actress Natalia Dormer.
"The movie takes place in 1969 when Audrey first comes to Philadelphia as the first female chief of pediatric oncology at CHOP," Fisher Farbman said. "She would see families sleeping on hospital floors, cutting treatments short because they couldn't afford to stay in town long enough and she came up with this concept of the Ronald McDonald House."
CBS Philadelphia was invited on the set, and on this day, the movie was being filmed on location at the Ronald McDonald House in Philadelphia.
"It's very rare as a filmmaker that you get, particularly, when you do a biopic like this, to actually be shooting at the location where the events actually occurred," Ami Canaan Mann said, "and there's a magic that occurs when you have that opportunity."
