Roberta Maxwell

Roberta Maxwell

Born: June 17, 1941
in Toronto, Canada
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Roberta Maxwell (born 1942) is a Canadian actress.

She began studying for the stage at the age of 12. She joined John Clark for 2 years as the child co-host of his Junior Magazine series for CBC Television, before becoming the youngest actress apprentice at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, ready to pursue an acting career, where she appeared as Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing, Lady Anne in Richard III, Olivia in Twelfth Night, and Anne in The Merry Wives of Windsor, before going on to England, where she spent three years in repertory. She made her West End debut with Robert Morley and Molly Picon in A Majority of One.

She debuted on Broadway in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in 1968, going on to five more plays with the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. In 1974 she was back on Broadway playing the role of Jill in Equus, which starred Anthony Hopkins.

In 1982, she starred as Rosalind in the Stratford Festival's stage production of Shakespeare's As You Like It, a production which was videotaped and telecast on Canadian television in 1983.

Those, and many more plays, took her on to a successful television and film career. In 2009 and 2010 she appeared in two episodes of the Syfy series Warehouse 13.

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Percy
Title: Percy
Character: Louise Schmeiser
Released: October 9, 2020
Type: Movie
Percy Schmeiser, a third-generation farmer, gets sued by a corporate giant for allegedly using their patented seeds. With little resources to fight a legal battle, Percy joins forces with up-and-coming attorney Jackson Weaver and environmental activist Rebecca Salcau for a monumental case that leads all the way to the Supreme Court.
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Women of a Certain Age
Title: Women of a Certain Age
Character: Patricia Gabriel
Released: March 24, 2017
Type: Movie
Eight months after we first meet the Gabriels, Patricia, the family matriarch, joins her children and daughters-in-law as they prepare a meal from the past and consider the future of their country, town and home. Paying tribute to the difficult year behind them, the Gabriels compare notes on the search for empathy and authenticity at a time when the game seems rigged and the rules are forever changing.
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What Did You Expect?
Title: What Did You Expect?
Character: Patricia Gabriel
Released: March 23, 2017
Type: Movie
Back in the kitchen of the Gabriel family, the country is now in the midst of the general election for President. In the course of one evening in the house they grew up in, history (both theirs and our country's), money, politics, family, art and culture are chopped up and mixed together, while a meal is made around the kitchen table.
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Hungry
Title: Hungry
Character: Patricia Gabriel
Released: March 22, 2017
Type: Movie
Hungry is the first in a three-play cycle introducing us to the Gabriels of Rhinebeck, New York. These three plays unfold in real time and track the lives of the Gabriels throughout the coming presidential election year. To the rhythm of peeling, chopping and mixing, Hungry places us in the center of the Gabriel’s kitchen. The family discusses their lives and disappointments, and the world at large and nearby. As they struggle against the fear of being left behind, the family attempts to find resilience in the face of loss.
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Unearthing
Title: Unearthing
Character: Mary Hart
Released: April 20, 2016
Type: Movie
Healy James and Fisher Hart share a deep secret, but they don't know what it is. While Healy is tormented by compulsions he doesn't understand, Fisher studies the science of love, and avoids Healy, who triggers feelings she can't explain. When Healy suspects the answers to their mystery are buried on a suspected killer's property, his curiosity turns reckless, and Fisher must choose between a life in hiding and a frightening truth.
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The Inherited
Title: The Inherited
Character: Alice
Released: January 20, 2015
Type: Movie
Eve has married the man of her dreams but when they return to live in the house willed to him by his first wife who died under horrific circumstances, it becomes a waking nightmare as Eve falls into a spiral of suspicion and madness.
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Hungry Hearts
Title: Hungry Hearts
Character: Anna
Released: January 15, 2015
Type: Movie
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
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What We Have
Title: What We Have
Character: Rosemary
Released: September 12, 2014
Type: Movie
What We Have is is the tale of Maurice, a prisoner of his past who is unable to connect with the people in his new Northern Canadian small town, a community that is only too ready to welcome this European misfit into their arms.
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Title: Rookie Blue
Character: Marie D'Abramo
Released: June 24, 2010
Type: TV
Ambitious young cops try to prove themselves in their high-stakes careers, in which the smallest mistake can have deadly consequences. At the core of the close-knit group is perfectionist Andy McNally, whose father was a homicide detective before he burned out on the job. The series follows Andy and her four colleagues -- Dov Epstein, Gail Peck, Traci Nash and Chris Diaz -- as they experience the trials, triumphs and tribulations of police work, as well as its effect on their personal lives.
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Title: Warehouse 13
Character: Rebecca St. Clair
Released: July 7, 2009
Type: TV
After saving the life of the President, two secret service agents - Myka Bering and Pete Lattimer - find themselves assigned to the top secret Warehouse 13. The Warehouse is a massive, top secret facility that houses dangerous and fantastical objects. Together, Pete and Myka along with fellow agents Claudia, Steve Jinks and Warehouse caretaker Artie, must recover artifacts from around the globe before they can cause catastrophic damage.
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The Killing Floor
Title: The Killing Floor
Character: Ms. Alimet
Released: May 10, 2007
Type: Movie
A literary agent moves into a penthouse apartment. Soon after the move, he receives crime scene photographs that seem to have taken place in his new apartment. Next he receives a series of stalker videotapes that document his every move.
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The Mermaid Chair
Title: The Mermaid Chair
Character: Nelle
Released: September 9, 2006
Type: Movie
A married woman (Basinger) falls in love with a Benedictine monk.
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Booky Makes Her Mark
Title: Booky Makes Her Mark
Character: Aunt Aggie
Released: June 1, 2006
Type: Movie
The Thomsons, like many families, have hit hard times as Thomas can't find steady work. Fifteen year old Booky takes the family situation in stride, being matter-of-fact about being poor. Beyond her loving family, there are some things about her life she likes, such as being the president of her local Deanna Durbin fan club, and going out with a boy named Lorne.
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Brokeback Mountain
Title: Brokeback Mountain
Character: Jack's Mother
Released: September 10, 2005
Type: Movie
Rodeo cowboy Jack and ranch hand Ennis are hired as sheepherders in 1963 Wyoming. One night on Brokeback Mountain, they spark a physical relationship. Though Ennis marries his longtime sweetheart and Jack marries a fellow rodeo rider, they keep up their tortured, sporadic love affair for 20 years.
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Vinegar Hill
Title: Vinegar Hill
Character: Ellen's Mother
Released: March 6, 2005
Type: Movie
Family secrets surface when a married couple returns to the husband’s hometown, where his overbearing family interferes with their imagined new start.
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Gracie's Choice
Title: Gracie's Choice
Character: Judge
Released: January 12, 2004
Type: Movie
For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father and their mother is on the fast track to self-destruction. When these children's lives are about to be pulled apart, Gracie will have to do the impossible and make the ultimate sacrifices to keep her family together.
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Full Disclosure
Title: Full Disclosure
Character: Sarah Archer
Released: May 15, 2001
Type: Movie
A reporter discovers a woman who is a suspected terrorist.
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What Makes a Family
Title: What Makes a Family
Character: Claire
Released: January 22, 2001
Type: Movie
Janine and Sandy are a lesbian couple who decide to have a baby, but after a few years Sandy dies. This tragedy is exploited by Sandy's parents to snatch the girl from Janine's care. But then, and despite having the laws against her, Janine decides to fight in order to regain custody of her daughter.
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The Dinosaur Hunter
Title: The Dinosaur Hunter
Character: Adult Julia
Released: August 5, 2000
Type: Movie
A 13-year-old girl and her older brother live on a farm where paleontologists search for fossils.
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Forget Me Never
Title: Forget Me Never
Released: October 3, 1999
Type: Movie
Diane McGowin was employed as an administrative assistant for a group of attorneys in private practice. She found herself forgetting things, especially losing short term memory. She suspected that something was wrong and went to the doctor. After many tests, the diagnosis was Alzheimer's. Diana did not want to tell her husband, Jack McGowin because she thought her husband, Jack, would be worried about money since she made more money than he did.
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Title: Twice in a Lifetime
Character: Eloise Hawke / Eileen Kotter
Released: August 25, 1999
Type: TV
Prematurely deceased people are given the opportunity to correct something that went wrong in their lives and thus change them for the better.
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Water Damage
Title: Water Damage
Character: Dr. Winston
Released: July 30, 1999
Type: Movie
One year after the drowning death of his young son, Paul Preedy (Daniel Baldwin) receives an invitation to a reunion at his prep school. Paul decides to go, taking his remaining son with him. When they arrive, they find that only two other people had been invited and a new nightmare is about to begin.
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Life in a Day
Title: Life in a Day
Character: Carla Jennings
Released: May 20, 1999
Type: Movie
A scientific experiment in rapid-cell growth goes awry when a lab assistant steals the developed serum and injects it into his pregnant girl friend. The result is a child that grows through adulthood and will die within days, if a cure cannot be found.
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Title: Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
Character: Myra
Released: February 21, 1999
Type: TV
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke is a four-part miniseries that was first broadcast on CBS in 1999 starring Lauren Bacall and Richard Chamberlain. It was based primarily on the book The Richest Girl In The World: by Stephanie Mansfield as well as Bob Colacello's two in-depth articles about Ms Duke in Vanity Fair. Colacello was the magazine's authority on Doris Duke. The title of the series was derived from the book Too Rich: The Family Secrets of Doris Duke by Pony Duke and Jason Thomas. Manfield's book was the first to be obtained by CBS, which optioned it for a planned miniseries in early 1995. The Duke-Thomas book, which was "being peddled as a miniseries" by the authors months before publication, was originally optioned earlier that year by the producer Doris Keating, who planned a miniseries of her own. Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke presents a dramatized account of the life of the heiress, philanthropist, and once richest woman in the world, Doris Duke. It has since been re-broadcast on The Hallmark Channel, and on Lifetime combined together and presented as a 192 minute movie. The film stars Hayden Panettiere as young Doris Duke, Lindsay Frost as 20 to 50 year old Doris Duke, and Lauren Bacall as an elderly Doris Duke. Bacall, who had met Doris Duke a few times, was pleased to have been able to appear in a TV miniseries, devoting a few paragraphs to the experience in her autobiography.
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Shadow Lake
Title: Shadow Lake
Character: Louise Garvey
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A writer's mysterious disappearance on an ice-covered lake holds the clues to a missing gemstone and a grisly murder.
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Last Night
Title: Last Night
Character: Mrs. Wheeler
Released: October 23, 1998
Type: Movie
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
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The Postman
Title: The Postman
Character: Irene March
Released: December 25, 1997
Type: Movie
In 2013 there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the Unites States. Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule, a knack for Shakespeare and something yet undiscovered: the power to inspire hope.
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Title: Liberty!
Character: Mercy Otis Warren
Released: November 23, 1997
Type: TV
Dramatic documentary about the birth of the American Republic and the struggle of a loosely connected group of states to become a nation.
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Fall
Title: Fall
Character: Joan Alterman
Released: June 20, 1997
Type: Movie
For Michael Shiver, life as an easy-going cab driver in New York suddenly changes when he picks up supermodel Sarah Easton and falls head over heels in love. But Sarah has more than just passion on her mind; she also has a husband and a glamorous lifestyle that she can't seem to leave behind. Torn between her feelings for Michael and the security of her marriage, Sarah is forced to make a realistic decision about the sacrifices that must be made to be truly and totally in love.
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When Innocence Is Lost
Title: When Innocence Is Lost
Character: Cynthia Adams
Released: April 7, 1997
Type: Movie
When Erica French opts to keep the baby she conceived in high school, she never dreamed that one day she would be fighting for custody against the child's father, Scott Stone. Scott Stone initially fought for custody when Erica threatened to cut off his access to their daughter. Scott continues to try to be a part of his daughter's life, but when Molly first breaks her arm at the playground then Scott's mother finds mysterious bruises on her granddaughter, Scott again fights for custody of young Molly, and this time he wins because the court feels his family can provide a more stable environment for Molly than a public daycare can.
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Mistrial
Title: Mistrial
Character: Judge Friel
Released: November 2, 1996
Type: Movie
When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, the judge and the jury hostage...and begins a trial of his own.
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Dead Man Walking
Title: Dead Man Walking
Character: Lucille Poncelet
Released: December 29, 1995
Type: Movie
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Mrs. Reynolds
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: TV
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
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Philadelphia
Title: Philadelphia
Character: Judge Tate
Released: December 22, 1993
Type: Movie
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Teresa Brewster
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Our Town
Title: Our Town
Character: Mrs. Webb
Released: April 1, 1989
Type: Movie
This classic American play, performed on an almost-bare stage, is about the mundane but rather pleasant lives of the Gibbs family, the Webb family, and their neighbors in Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, early in the 20th century.
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The Ten-Year Lunch
Title: The Ten-Year Lunch
Character: Dorothy Parker (voice)
Released: September 28, 1987
Type: Movie
The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table group included short story and poetry writer Dorothy Parker; comic actor and writer Robert Benchley; The New Yorker founder Harold Ross; columnist and social reformer Heywood Broun; critic Alexander Woollcott; and playwrights George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber and Robert Sherwood.
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Psycho III
Title: Psycho III
Character: Tracy Venable
Released: April 2, 1986
Type: Movie
When Maureen Coyle, a suicidal nun who resembles Norman's former victim, Marion Crane, arrives at the motel, all bets are off and "Mother" is less than happy.
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Title: Airwaves
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: TV
Airwaves is a Canadian television dramedy which aired on CBC from 1986 to 1987. The Toronto-filmed show starred Roberta Maxwell as Jean Lipton, a radio talk show host and widowed mother, who lived with her daughter Zoe, played by Ingrid Veninger, and her father Bob, played by Roland Hewgill. Maxwell has indicated that Canadian journalist-activist June Callwood was a basis for her portrayal of Jean. The show's cast also included Taborah Johnson, Alec Willows and Kimble Hall. Writers for the series included Judith Thompson, John Frizzell, Susan Martin, Rob Forsythe and Paul Gross. The series was repeated on Vision TV from 1989 to 1991.
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Title: The Hitchhiker
Character: Marybeth
Released: November 1, 1983
Type: TV
A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.
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Special Bulletin
Title: Special Bulletin
Character: Diane Silverman
Released: March 20, 1983
Type: Movie
A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met.
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As You Like It
Title: As You Like It
Character: Rosalind
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Shakespeare's As You Like It is a delightful romantic comedy , lavishly staged by the renowned Stratford Festival. A favorite with audiences throughout the centuries, this fairy tale is a brilliant magical celebration of romance, passion and unity. Pitting young love against the vanity of the court. It is the familiar story of exiled lovers reunited, of woodland meanderings, of mistaken identity and disguise, and of political wrongs set right. As in all of Shakespeare's plays, this is a story rich in mythology which deals with the transformation of souls from evil to good.
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Title: St. Elsewhere
Released: October 26, 1982
Type: TV
St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at a lightly-regarded Boston hospital who gave interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions.
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Title: Faerie Tale Theatre
Character: Queen Beatrice / Griselda
Released: September 11, 1982
Type: TV
A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.
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The Tale of the Frog Prince
Title: The Tale of the Frog Prince
Character: Queen Beatrice / Griselda
Released: September 11, 1982
Type: Movie
A spoiled, selfish princess's fate becomes entwined with a zany and witty frog with a secret past.
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Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal
Title: Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal
Character: Mary Belinski
Released: February 17, 1982
Type: Movie
A poorly-educated housewife fights companies polluting her hometown's water table in upstate New York during the 1970s.
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Popeye
Title: Popeye
Character: Nana Oyl
Released: December 12, 1980
Type: Movie
Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he must first contend with Olive's fiancé, Bluto.
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The Changeling
Title: The Changeling
Character: Eva Lingstrom
Released: March 28, 1980
Type: Movie
After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.
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Rich Kids
Title: Rich Kids
Character: Barbara Peterfreund
Released: August 17, 1979
Type: Movie
Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings.
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The Other Side of Victory
Title: The Other Side of Victory
Character: Nancy Turner
Released: June 12, 1979
Type: Movie
This film dramatizes the problems facing ordinary American soldiers during the Revolutionary War, explaining why most ultimately chose to stay and fight.
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Title: Mourning Becomes Electra
Character: Lavinia Mannon
Released: December 6, 1978
Type: TV
In a Greek tragedy updated to the 1860s, young New Englanders exact vengeance after the murder of their father.
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A Touch of the Poet
Title: A Touch of the Poet
Character: Sara Melody
Released: January 2, 1974
Type: Movie
Cornelius "Con" Melody is an Irish tavern keeper in New England who lives in reverence of his former days as a nobleman and decorated officer in the British army during the Napoleonic wars. Impoverished now, he struts about in his uniform and plots to make money by manipulating the love of his daughter for the son of a wealthy manufacturer. His daughter sees through his façade and his chicanery and begins to plot for herself.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Mrs. Webb
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Clara
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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A Great Big Thing
Title: A Great Big Thing
Character: Eve
Released: June 23, 1968
Type: Movie
A 23-year-old Canadian wanders aimlessly throughout his wasted life.
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Title: Another World
Released: May 4, 1964
Type: TV
Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC for 35 years from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. Set in the fictional town of Bay City, the show in its early years opens with announcer Bill Wolff intoning its epigram, “We do not live in this world alone, but in a thousand other worlds,” which Phillips said represented the difference between “the world of events we live in, and the world of feelings and dreams that we strive for.” Another World focused less on the conventional drama of domestic life as seen in other soap operas, and more on exotic melodrama between families of different classes and philosophies.