"The main thing that growing up on a chicken farm did for me, though, was to develop an intense desire to get away and travel."
Karr's early education was largely boring; she was taught in a small four-room school and then at Catholic high schools. "I had to fight in high school to be allowed to take physics," Karr told AAYA. By age seventeen she was already placing articles in local publications, one article recounting a summer trip she took to Hungary, her parents' ancestral homeland. She eventually left her rural home to attend the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where she fell in love with film. Karr continued this new-found passion with independent study, later teaching her first film history course at Providence College while earning her master's degree in English. An early attempt at teaching high school English and speech left Karr with the realization that being an English teacher was not the career she wanted; by 1970 she had found a niche in film curatorship and production. With her husband, whom she married fresh out of Catholic University, Karr set up the first state-oriented film archive in the country. This led to positions with the American Film Institute and the Washington Circle Theater Corporation and Circle/Showcase Theaters in advertising and public relations.
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