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Louise Archambault Greaves

CTL-P-1374 · Person

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Combined Graph record U-03514 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-P-1374. Master record source: User-supplied review 2026-10-17 (Once Upon a Time in Harlem review, Oct 15, 2026) — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

Filmmaker and producer; widow of William Greaves; began restoring the 1972 footage; d. 2023

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Filmmaker and producer; widow of William Greaves; began restoring the 1972 footage; d. 2023

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Louise Archambault Greaves was William Greaves's wife and creative partner of 55 years; she co-founded William Greaves Productions in 1963; following his death in 2014 she worked to restore his films and to ensure Once Upon a Time in Harlem would be realized, working with producer Anne de Mare to preserve and digitize over 60,000 feet of the 1972 16mm footage; she died in 2023.

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