"Sister Aimee"
Aimee Semple McPherson was one of the most famous pentacostal evangelists of the 1920s. Here she is with her son Rolf in 1929, speaking outside her Angeles Temple in L.A. (built in 1923), youtube video, "Mystery Man":
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Very good and impartial 26 minute biography of Aimee, narrarated by actress Gina Rowlands. Interviews with her daughter and son, and includes 1926 "kidnapping" and subsequent scandal. Aimee was a kind woman, non-judgemental and talented, who welcomed all sinners to her church, including African-Americans, fed the hungry but was also lonely, at times troubled and herself a sinner. The loss of her beloved first husband while they were missionaries in China apparently left a lingering sadness and loneliness underneath her cheerful facade. No less than iconoclast H. L. Mencken recognized the sadness beneath the facade on a visit to Angeles Temple while visiting L.A. in 1926 (more on Mencken later). From youtube:
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