![]() Passing through the tenements of the Lower East Side, Evelyn encounters a street artist known as Tateh ( Mandy Patinkin) and witnesses him throw his wife ( Fran Drescher) out of their home after learning of her infidelity. Thaw's lawyer, Delphin ( Pat O'Brien), bribes Evelyn with a million-dollar divorce settlement (which she accepts) to keep silent about Thaw's mental instability at his trial and to testify that White had abused her. Younger Brother witnesses White's murder and becomes obsessed with Evelyn, leaving home for long periods of time to follow her throughout the city. Realizing that he is the baby's father, he announces to a skeptical Father that he intends to marry Sarah. Some time later, Coalhouse Walker arrives at the house in search of Sarah, driving a new model T Ford and acting in a brash manner unlike the subservient attitude expected of the African American community at the time. When she learns that the police intend to charge Sarah with child abandonment and attempted murder, Mother ( Mary Steenburgen) intervenes and takes Sarah and her child into the home, despite Father's objections. The child's mother, an unmarried washerwoman named Sarah ( Debbie Allen), is discovered, and brought to their home. Their passive, sheltered existence is disturbed when an abandoned African American baby is found in their garden. The family's Father ( James Olson) owns a factory, where his wife's Younger Brother ( Brad Dourif) is employed as a fireworks maker. Meanwhile, an unnamed upper class family resides in a comfortable suburban home in New Rochelle. Thaw becomes convinced White has corrupted Evelyn and humiliated him, and publicly shoots White, killing him. ![]() The model for the statue is Evelyn Nesbit ( Elizabeth McGovern), a former chorus girl who is now Thaw's wife. The millionaire industrialist Harry Kendall Thaw ( Robert Joy), who makes a scene when White's latest creation, a nude statue on the roof of Madison Square Garden, is unveiled. The newsreel is accompanied by ragtime pianist Coalhouse Walker, Jr.
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