Blythe Danner

Blythe Danner

Born: February 3, 1943
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Blythe Katherine Danner (born February 3, 1943) is an American actress. She is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and director Jake Paltrow.

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Happiness for Beginners
Title: Happiness for Beginners
Character: Gigi
Released: July 23, 2023
Type: Movie
At a crossroads after her divorce, a schoolteacher ventures toward a fresh start in life — and love — when she signs up for a grueling group hiking trip.
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Strange but True
Title: Strange but True
Character: Gail
Released: October 17, 2019
Type: Movie
A woman surprises the family of her deceased boyfriend by telling them she's pregnant with his child.
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The Tomorrow Man
Title: The Tomorrow Man
Character: Ronnie
Released: May 22, 2019
Type: Movie
Ed Hemsler spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never come. Ronnie Meisner spends her life shopping for things she may never use. In a small town somewhere in America, these two people will try to find love while trying not to get lost in each other’s stuff.
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The Chaperone
Title: The Chaperone
Character: Mary O'Dell
Released: March 29, 2019
Type: Movie
In the early 1920s, a Kansas woman finds her life forever changed when she accompanies a young dancer on her fame-seeking journey to New York City.
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What They Had
Title: What They Had
Character: Ruth
Released: October 19, 2018
Type: Movie
A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.
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Hearts Beat Loud
Title: Hearts Beat Loud
Character: Marianne Fisher
Released: June 8, 2018
Type: Movie
In the hip Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook, single dad and record store owner Frank is preparing to send his hard-working daughter Sam off to college while being forced to close his vintage shop. Hoping to stay connected through their shared musical passions, Frank urges Sam to turn their weekly jam sessions into a father-daughter live act. After their first song becomes an internet breakout, the two embark on a journey of love, growing up and musical discovery.
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Title: Patrick Melrose
Character: Nancy Valance
Released: May 12, 2018
Type: TV
A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.
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Halfway There
Title: Halfway There
Character: Jeanne Ross
Released: December 12, 2017
Type: Movie
Jimmy Bishop runs a sober living facility and is forced to take in his wealthy alcoholic mother as a client.
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Saving the Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport
Title: Saving the Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport
Character: Narrator
Released: November 1, 2017
Type: Movie
A new one-hour documentary about the events, people and politics behind the struggle to preserve a rural area of New Jersey between 1959 and 1968. Chronicles the 9-year fight to stop plans to build a huge jetport that threatened towns, wildlife and the aquifer for miles around.
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Title: Will & Grace
Character: Marilyn Truman
Released: September 28, 2017
Type: TV
That’s right, honey! A decade after their unforgettable eight-season run, comedy’s most fabulous foursome is back.
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Title: American Gods
Character: Demeter
Released: April 30, 2017
Type: TV
An ex-con becomes the traveling partner of a conman who turns out to be one of the older gods trying to recruit troops to battle the upstart deities. Based on Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel.
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Title: American Gods
Character: Demeter / Caroline Wells
Released: April 30, 2017
Type: TV
An ex-con becomes the traveling partner of a conman who turns out to be one of the older gods trying to recruit troops to battle the upstart deities. Based on Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel.
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The Great War
Title: The Great War
Character: Self (voice)
Released: April 10, 2017
Type: Movie
Drawing on unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, The Great War tells the rich and complex story of World War I through the voices of nurses, journalists, aviators and the American troops who came to be known as “doughboys".
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Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future
Title: Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future
Character: Aline Saarinen (voice)
Released: December 27, 2016
Type: Movie
Best known for designing National Historic Landmarks such as St. Louis’ iconic Gateway Arch and the General Motors Technical Center, Saarinen also designed New York’s TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Yale University’s Ingalls Rink and Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges, Virginia’s Dulles Airport, and modernist pedestal furniture like the Tulip chair.
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Title: Madoff
Character: Ruth Madoff
Released: February 3, 2016
Type: TV
The rise and fall of Bernie Madoff, who's Ponzi scheme bilked $65 billion from unsuspecting victims.
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I'll See You in My Dreams
Title: I'll See You in My Dreams
Character: Carol Petersen
Released: May 15, 2015
Type: Movie
A sudden loss disrupts Carol’s orderly life, propelling her into the dating world for the first time in 20 years. Finally living in the present tense, she finds herself swept up in not one, but two unexpected relationships that challenge her assumptions about what it means to grow old.
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Tumbledown
Title: Tumbledown
Character: Ellen Jespersen
Released: April 18, 2015
Type: Movie
A young woman struggles to move on with her life after the death of her husband, an acclaimed folk singer, when a brash New York writer forces her to confront her loss and the ambiguous circumstances of his death.
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Title: The Slap
Character: Virginia
Released: February 12, 2015
Type: TV
Hector and his wife Aisha plan a party for family and friends, but the day doesn't turn out as they expected when Hector's hot-headed cousin Harry slaps a misbehaving child. The party ends abruptly with the child's parents threatening legal action, and a chain of events is ignited that will uncover secrets, challenge core values, and leave the party guests and hosts forever changed.
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Murder of a Cat
Title: Murder of a Cat
Character: Edie Moisey
Released: April 24, 2014
Type: Movie
When someone murders his beloved cat, Clinton, an adult child, demands justice. Taking it upon himself to solve the case, he teams up with an unlikely ally, Greta, and the two set out to find the culprit lurking in their small suburban town. But as Clinton searches for the truth, he begins to uncover a conspiracy that goes far deeper than he anticipated.
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Hello I Must Be Going
Title: Hello I Must Be Going
Character: Ruth
Released: September 7, 2012
Type: Movie
Divorced and demoralised, Amy Minsky’s prospects look bleak when she is condemned to move back in with her parents at the age of 35. Everyone wants to help but, as her patience level with advice is plummeting, a bold teenage boy enters her life, igniting her last bit of self-esteem.
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The Lucky One
Title: The Lucky One
Character: Nana
Released: April 19, 2012
Type: Movie
A Marine travels to Louisiana after serving three tours in Iraq and searches for the unknown woman he believes was his good luck charm during the war.
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Title: Prohibition
Character: Reader (voice)
Released: October 2, 2011
Type: TV
The history of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the entire era it encompassed (1920-33). After nearly a century of activism, Prohibition was intended to improve the lives of all citizens by protecting individuals, families and society at large from the devastating effects of alcohol abuse; but paradoxically it made millions of people rethink their definition of morality.
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What's Your Number?
Title: What's Your Number?
Character: Ava Darling
Released: September 30, 2011
Type: Movie
Ally Darling is realizing she's a little lost in life. Her latest romance has just fizzled out, and she's just been fired from her marketing job. Then she reads an eye-opening magazine article that warns that 96 percent of women who've been with 20 or more lovers are unlikely to find a husband. Determined to turn her life around and prove the article wrong, Ally embarks on a mission to find the perfect mate from among her numerous ex-boyfriends.
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Title: Up All Night
Character: Angie Chafin
Released: September 14, 2011
Type: TV
An irreverent look at parenthood through the point of view of an acerbic working mother, along with her stay-at-home husband and opinionated parents.
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Detachment
Title: Detachment
Character: Ms. Perkins
Released: April 24, 2011
Type: Movie
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.
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Paul
Title: Paul
Character: Tara Walton
Released: February 14, 2011
Type: Movie
For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulness and the dissection table is drawing uncomfortably close, Paul escapes on the first RV that passes by his compound in Area 51. Fortunately, it contains the two earthlings who are most likely to rescue and harbor an alien on the run.
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Little Fockers
Title: Little Fockers
Character: Dina Byrnes
Released: December 21, 2010
Type: Movie
It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get in with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack. After the cash-strapped dad takes a job moonlighting for a drug company, Jack's suspicions about his favorite male nurse come roaring back. When Greg and Pam's entire clan descends for the twins' birthday party, Greg must prove to the skeptical Jack that he's fully capable as the man of the house.
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Waiting for Forever
Title: Waiting for Forever
Character: Miranda Twist
Released: February 10, 2010
Type: Movie
A Hollywood-set romantic tale of a guy who is content to live his life without a job yet with the love of his life, a young actress.
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The Lightkeepers
Title: The Lightkeepers
Character: Mrs. Bascom
Released: December 18, 2009
Type: Movie
Set in the year 1912 on Cape Cod, a lighthouse keeper who has disavowed any association with females, must deal with the appearance of two attractive women who move into a nearby cottage for the summer.
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Beyond All Boundaries
Title: Beyond All Boundaries
Character: Elsa Maxwell
Released: November 9, 2009
Type: Movie
A visual, 4-D experience of the battles of World War II featuring stories, archival footage and advanced special effects.
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Title: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Character: Greta
Released: August 6, 2008
Type: Movie
Four young women continue the journey toward adulthood that began with "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants." Now three years later, these lifelong friends embark on separate paths for their first year of college and the summer beyond, but remain in touch by sharing their experiences with each other.
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Side by Each
Title: Side by Each
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Salty wants to launch his live-in boat and sail off, until crooks buy the boatyard, requiring him to move away. He soon meets and falls for a woman not knowing she is one of three triplet sisters, setting off comic consequences along the waterfront.
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The Last Kiss
Title: The Last Kiss
Character: Anna
Released: September 10, 2006
Type: Movie
Michael has a great job, has his 4 best friends, and is in love with a beautiful girl at 30. He loves Jenna but his life seems predictable until someone else enters his life. It seems that everybody's having relationship problems.
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Title: Medium
Character: Louise Leaming
Released: January 3, 2005
Type: TV
Allison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people and her ability to communicate with the dead to help to solve crimes. Her dreams often give her clues to the whereabouts of missing people.
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Title: The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Character: Self
Released: January 3, 2005
Type: TV
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish American comedian Craig Ferguson, who is the third regular host of the Late Late Show franchise. It follows Late Show with David Letterman in the CBS late-night lineup, airing weekdays in the US at 12:37 a.m. It is taped in front of a live studio audience from Monday to Friday at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California, directly above the Bob Barker Studio. It is produced by David Letterman's production company Worldwide Pants Incorporated and CBS Television Studios. Since becoming host on January 3, 2005, after Craig Kilborn and Tom Snyder, Ferguson has achieved the highest ratings since the show's inception in 1995. While the majority of the episodes focus on comedy, Ferguson has also addressed difficult subject matter, such as the deaths of his parents, and undertaken serious interviews, such as one with Desmond Tutu, which earned the show a 2009 Peabody Award.
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Meet the Fockers
Title: Meet the Fockers
Character: Dina Byrnes
Released: December 22, 2004
Type: Movie
Hard-to-crack ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife Dina head for the warmer climes of Florida to meet the parents of their son-in-law-to-be, Greg Focker. Unlike their happily matched offspring, the future in-laws find themselves in a situation of opposites that definitely do not attract.
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Back When We Were Grownups
Title: Back When We Were Grownups
Character: Rebecca Holmes Davitch
Released: November 21, 2004
Type: Movie
A 53-year-old widow believes she's turned into the wrong person in this bittersweet tale based on Anne Tyler's best-seller. Beck's (Blythe Danner) plate is full: She runs a catering business and cares for her large family, but feels lost inside. Determined to find herself, Beck embarks on a journey, starting with her ex-beau (Peter Fonda) and ending with an unexpected soul mate. Jack Palance, Peter Riegert, Faye Dunaway and Ione Skye also star.
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Title: Huff
Character: Isabelle Huffstodt
Released: November 7, 2004
Type: TV
Dr. Craig Huffstodt, a family man and a successful psychiatrist, gets a wake-up call after a tragedy occurs with one of his patients.
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Sylvia
Title: Sylvia
Character: Aurelia Plath
Released: October 17, 2003
Type: Movie
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
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Title: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Character: Self
Released: September 8, 2003
Type: TV
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to just Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres.
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Title: Presidio Med
Character: Dr. Harriet Lanning
Released: September 24, 2002
Type: TV
Presidio Med is an American medical drama that aired on CBS from September 2002, to January 2003. The series centers on a San Francisco hospital. It was created by John Wells and Lydia Woodward, who also created ER.
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We Were the Mulvaneys
Title: We Were the Mulvaneys
Character: Corinne Mulvaney
Released: April 8, 2002
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by the same name, We Were the Mulvaneys is a sensitive portrayal of one family's journey as they face conflict, fear, tragedy and ultimately, themselves.
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Mark Twain
Title: Mark Twain
Character: Olivia "Livy" Langdon Clemens (voice)
Released: January 14, 2002
Type: Movie
Largely considered to be the greatest American author, Mark Twain is celebrated in this exhaustive documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns.
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Title: Mark Twain
Character: Olivia 'Livy' Langdon Clemens (voice)
Released: January 14, 2002
Type: TV
Mark Twain is a documentary film on the life of Mark Twain also known as Samuel Clements produced by Ken Burns in 2001. Burns captures both the public and private persona of Mark Twain from his birth to his death. The film was narrated by Keith David and the voice of Mark Twain was provided by Kevin Conway.
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Title: Good Day Live
Character: Self
Released: September 17, 2001
Type: TV
Good Day Live was a nationwide talk show seen weekdays on FOX affiliates throughout the US. Each FOX owned and operated station airs a separate Good Day program as part of its newscast. Some FOX stations air up to five hours on weekday mornings, up to three on weekend mornings, (and almost 50% of the programming on these stations contains a locally produced newscast of local news, traffic, national news, weather, sports, business, and public affairs.)
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The Invisible Circus
Title: The Invisible Circus
Character: Gail
Released: February 23, 2001
Type: Movie
After learning that her sister, Faith, has committed suicide in Portugal, Phoebe, an 18-year-old hippie, decides to uproot from her San Francisco home to travel to Europe. Phoebe hopes to discover and experience the life that led to her sister's death by retracing her footsteps, which eventually leads to Wolf -- Faith's boyfriend. However, as Phoebe's journey continues, a series of visions of Faith pushes her mind to the brink.
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Meet the Parents
Title: Meet the Parents
Character: Dina Byrnes
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: Movie
Greg Focker is ready to marry his girlfriend, Pam, but before he pops the question, he must win over her formidable father, humorless former CIA agent Jack Byrnes, at the wedding of Pam's sister. As Greg bends over backward to make a good impression, his visit to the Byrnes home turns into a hilarious series of disasters, and everything that can go wrong does, all under Jack's critical, hawklike gaze.
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Things I Forgot to Remember
Title: Things I Forgot to Remember
Character: Mrs. Bradford
Released: June 10, 1999
Type: Movie
A bittersweet comedy in Spanish and English about a Cuban family that migrates to the United States. Robertico, Carmela and Roberto's youngest son, grow up feeling ashamed that his family might not be American enough. He has reached this conclusion by constantly watching American television and forming an opinion as to how Americans really are. Led by his desperation, he literally escapes into an American television sitcom in order to forget about his Cuban past. Not knowing what to do, his family prays to the Virgin Mary to ask for help. When the cultures clash, Robertico has to decide whether he is strong enough to withstand his own self-hatred, and learn not only self-esteem, but how to embrace his Cuban roots.
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The Love Letter
Title: The Love Letter
Character: Lillian MacFarquhar
Released: May 21, 1999
Type: Movie
A romantic comedy about a mysterious love letter that turns a sleepy New England town upside down.
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Forces of Nature
Title: Forces of Nature
Character: Virginia
Released: March 12, 1999
Type: Movie
Ben Holmes, a professional book-jacket blurbologist, is trying to get to Savannah for his wedding. He just barely catches the last plane, but a seagull flies into the engine as the plane is taking off. All later flights are cancelled because of an approaching hurricane, so he is forced to hitch a ride in a Geo Metro with an attractive but eccentric woman named Sara.
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Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
Title: Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
Character: Mrs. Murphy (voice)
Released: December 13, 1998
Type: Movie
A small-town cat-and-dog detective duo investigate a new neighbor who they believe may have committed a murder, but the snag is, locals are attempting to pair him off with their owner.
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Saint Maybe
Title: Saint Maybe
Character: Bee Bedloe
Released: November 22, 1998
Type: Movie
A lonely teen troubled by a past family tragedy is suspicious of his sister-in-law, believing she is being unfaithful. His confrontation with his brother sets off a series of tragic events.
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Title: Will & Grace
Character: Marilyn Truman
Released: September 21, 1998
Type: TV
Will Truman and Grace Adler are best friends living in New York, and when Grace's engagement falls apart, she moves in with Will. Together, along with their friends, they go through the trials of dating, sex, relationships and their careers, butting heads at times but ultimately supporting one another while exchanging plenty of witty banter along the way.
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The X Files
Title: The X Files
Character: Cassidy
Released: June 19, 1998
Type: Movie
Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.
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Title: From the Earth to the Moon
Character: narrator
Released: April 5, 1998
Type: TV
The story of the United States' space program, from its beginnings in 1961 to the final moon mission in 1972.
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No Looking Back
Title: No Looking Back
Character: Claudia's Mom
Released: March 27, 1998
Type: Movie
Charlie returns to his old town where he meets his ex-girlfriend again and tries to get her back.
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The Proposition
Title: The Proposition
Character: Syril Danning
Released: March 26, 1998
Type: Movie
Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, Arthur and Eleanor Barret. Meanwhile Eleanor and Arthur desperately want to have a child, but Arthur is sterile, so they hire Harvard law student Roger Martin to impregnate Eleanor, but unfortunately Roger falls in love with her.
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Eye of the Storm
Title: Eye of the Storm
Character: Irma
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
When a sudden storm traps a college student from California in the Miller's farmhouse basement, in the dead geographic center of America, with Irma, her husband Dallas and their brooding 30-year-old son Billy, their dark secrets are revealed. This taut, well-crafted drama is a star turn for Blythe Danner, leading us on an intriguing path of family dysfunction and hidden tragedies. The Millers are trying to come to terms with the mysterious disappearance of their only daughter. Irma's delusions about the tragedy are further complicated by the arrival of the suspicious California coed.
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Mad City
Title: Mad City
Character: Mrs. Banks
Released: November 7, 1997
Type: Movie
A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.
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The Myth of Fingerprints
Title: The Myth of Fingerprints
Character: Lena
Released: September 17, 1997
Type: Movie
When a New England dysfunctional family gathers for Thanksgiving, past demons reveal themselves as one son returns for the first time in three years.
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A Call to Remember
Title: A Call to Remember
Character: Paula Tobias
Released: August 30, 1997
Type: Movie
Paula Tobias, a Holocaust survivor who has suffered the ultimate personal tragedy of losing her spouse and children during the Nazi occupation of World War II. Now re-married and living in America during the late 1960's with husband David, they build a new life together with sons Ben and Jake. One evening, Paula receives a phone call which assures her that her son, Alec, is actually alive and in New York. This brings up painful memories from the past for everyone involved, including Ben and Jake, who force their father to talk about the Holocaust. Paula rushes to New York only to find that it was a mistake - Alec was never found. She falls into a dramatic depression, as the family confronts their fears and tries to stay together.
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Title: Thomas Jefferson
Character: Martha Jefferson
Released: February 18, 1997
Type: TV
The complex life of Thomas Jefferson, who wrote that "all men are created equal" yet owned slaves, is recounted by master filmmaker Ken Burns in this probing documentary. Covering Jefferson's diplomatic work in France, his two presidential terms, his retirement at Monticello and more.
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To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Title: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Character: Beatrice
Released: September 7, 1995
Type: Movie
A cross country trip to Hollywood is cut short by an unreliable engine & an unpleasant encounter with law enforcement. With the power of drag, three self proclaimed career-girls bring a bit of much needed beauty to rural middle America!
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Napoleon
Title: Napoleon
Character: Mother Dingo (voice)
Released: June 30, 1995
Type: Movie
The adventures of Golden Retriever pup Napoleon and his friend, the parrot Birdo Lucci.
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Homage
Title: Homage
Character: Katherine Samuel
Released: May 3, 1995
Type: Movie
The young caretaker at the estate of a reclusive woman develops a dangerous obsession with her daughter, a sexy television star. Unexpected twists and turns.
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Leave of Absence
Title: Leave of Absence
Character: Elisa
Released: May 11, 1994
Type: Movie
A man asks his wife for a 'leave of absence' in order to care for his mistress who is dying of cancer.
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Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Title: Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Character: Bianca Honicut
Released: May 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood. Her story encompasses everything from the tragic death of a Confederate boy soldier to the feisty narrator's daily battles in the Home--complete with visits from a mohawk-coiffed candy-striper.
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Title: Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Character: Bianca Honicut
Released: May 1, 1994
Type: TV
Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood. Her story encompasses everything from the tragic death of a Confederate boy soldier to the feisty narrator's daily battles in the Home--complete with visits from a mohawk-coiffed candy-striper.
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Title: Intimate Portrait
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: November 14, 1993
Type: TV
Intimate Portrait is a biographical television series on the Lifetime Television cable network focusing on different celebrities, which includes interviews with each subject. Among the people profiled were Grace Kelly, Natalie Wood, Carly Simon, Jackie Kennedy, Katharine Hepburn, Carol Burnett, Tanya Tucker, and Marla Maples.
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Tracey Ullman Takes on New York
Title: Tracey Ullman Takes on New York
Character: Eleanor Levine
Released: October 9, 1993
Type: Movie
Tracey Ullman and her wacky cast of characters take a bite out of the Big Apple.
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Lincoln
Title: Lincoln
Character: Elizabeth Todd Edwards (voice)
Released: December 26, 1992
Type: Movie
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.
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Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
Title: Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
Character: The Daughter
Released: October 9, 1992
Type: Movie
This short comedy about the love of acting features a grandmother, daughter, and granddaughter in three different eras: first backstage at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1900, then backstage at a college theater in 1956, and finally, in the make-up room of the Charlie Rose television program in 1992. One of several short pieces commissioned for the PBS television special Great Performances 20th Anniversary.
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Husbands and Wives
Title: Husbands and Wives
Character: Rain's mother
Released: September 18, 1992
Type: Movie
When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and meet new people, the marriage of Gabe and Judy gets more and more strained, and they begin to find themselves being attracted to other people.
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Getting Up and Going Home
Title: Getting Up and Going Home
Character: Lily Montgomery
Released: July 21, 1992
Type: Movie
A middle-aged lawyer struggles to face his inner demons as he finds himself embroiled in affairs with three separate women.
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Title: Cruel Doubt
Character: Bonnie Von Stein
Released: May 17, 1992
Type: TV
A college student and two friends are accused of murdering one's stepfather and injuring his mother whom refuses to believe her son had anything to do with the attack.
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The Prince of Tides
Title: The Prince of Tides
Character: Sally Wingo
Released: December 25, 1991
Type: Movie
A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.
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Never Forget
Title: Never Forget
Character: Jane Mermelstein
Released: April 8, 1991
Type: Movie
Mel and Jane Mermelstein are a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. Mel is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz, and Jane, a Southern Baptist from Tennessee. Their four children are good kids, typical Americans, with just enough orneriness to irritate each other, but enough love and class to pull together when it counts.
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Alice
Title: Alice
Character: Dorothy
Released: December 25, 1990
Type: Movie
Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for the handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults herbalist Dr. Yang, who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs give Alice wondrous powers, taking her out of well-established rut.
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Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Title: Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Character: Grace Barron
Released: November 23, 1990
Type: Movie
Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.
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Judgment
Title: Judgment
Character: Emmeline Guitry
Released: October 13, 1990
Type: Movie
Fact-based story of a Louisiana priest accused of molesting young parishioners, and of the family of one of his victims, caught between their loyalty to their son and to their Church.
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Money, Power, Murder.
Title: Money, Power, Murder.
Character: Jeannie
Released: December 10, 1989
Type: Movie
Peter Finley is a cable-TV newsman who is led into a network of sin and conspiracy when he has interest in a missing anchorwoman's story.
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Title: Tales from the Crypt
Character: Margaret
Released: June 10, 1989
Type: TV
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
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Title: Tattingers
Released: October 26, 1988
Type: TV
Tattingers is an American comedy-drama series that aired by the NBC television network as part of its 1988 fall lineup. After failing in the Nielsen ratings as an hour-long program, the plot and characters were briefly revived in the spring of 1989 as the half-hour situation comedy Nick & Hillary.
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Another Woman
Title: Another Woman
Character: Lydia
Released: October 13, 1988
Type: Movie
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
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Elizabeth Bishop: One Art
Title: Elizabeth Bishop: One Art
Character: Voice of Elizabeth Bishop
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Illustrates the writer's wandering spirit, from a childhood in Nova Scotia to travels in Brazil, and the central themes of her work: geography, landscape, and the quest for consciousness and identity through travel.
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Brighton Beach Memoirs
Title: Brighton Beach Memoirs
Character: Kate
Released: December 26, 1986
Type: Movie
Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a crowded house.
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Guilty Conscience
Title: Guilty Conscience
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Amid acrimonious divorce proceedings, Louise (Blythe Danner) unwittingly puts her life in danger when she contests the prenuptial agreement she signed before marrying attorney Arthur Jamison (Anthony Hopkins). He plans to kill her to resolve the situation. Armed with information on how her cheating husband conducts his business and personal affairs, she demands more money from him -- but will Arthur have the final word?
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Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
Title: Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
Character: Anne Sullivan
Released: April 23, 1984
Type: Movie
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In Defense of Kids
Title: In Defense of Kids
Character: Ellen Wilcox
Released: April 6, 1983
Type: Movie
When a female lawyer finds a girl hiding in the back of her car, it starts her thinking, and she decides to give up her job to open up a refuge for neglected children.
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Man, Woman and Child
Title: Man, Woman and Child
Character: Sheila Beckwith
Released: April 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A California professor (Martin Sheen), his wife (Blythe Danner) and his daughters make room for his orphaned illegitimate French son (Sebastian Dungan).
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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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Inside the Third Reich
Title: Inside the Third Reich
Character: Margarete Speer
Released: May 9, 1982
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title.
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The Great Santini
Title: The Great Santini
Character: Lillian Meechum
Released: October 26, 1979
Type: Movie
As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated marine pilot.
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You Can't Take it With You
Title: You Can't Take it With You
Character: Alice Sycamore
Released: May 16, 1979
Type: Movie
Emmy winner Jean Stapleton and Academy Award winner Art Carney star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart about a slightly daft family who do exactly as they please.
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Too Far to Go
Title: Too Far to Go
Character: Joan Barlow Maple
Released: March 12, 1979
Type: Movie
Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For behind the seemingly comfortable well-trimmed hedges of suburban Americana, live and often love, Richard and Joan Maple. Adapted from a series of stories appearing in the New Yorker Magazine over a period of twenty three years by Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("The Witches of Eastwick", "Rabbit Run"), "Too Far To Go" garnered overwhelming critical praise in its theatrical debut. With its exceptional cast, this film envelops us in a poignant, sometimes funny, sometimes exasperating journey through this most important relationship.
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Are You in the House Alone?
Title: Are You in the House Alone?
Character: Anne Osborne
Released: September 20, 1978
Type: Movie
An average high school girl's life is turned upside down after she is attacked and savagely assaulted. When a mysterious person begins leaving her threatening messages and making unsettling phone calls, Gail realizes that the nightmare is only just beginning...
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A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
Title: A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
Character: Eleanor Gehrig
Released: January 15, 1978
Type: Movie
Legendary ballplayer and humanitarian Lou Gehrig and his relationship with his stalwart wife, Eleanor, are portrayed in this film that focuses on the Hall of Famer's life off the baseball field. Featuring unflinching looks at the Gehrigs' relationship, as well as Lou's feud with Babe Ruth. This film is for anyone interested in baseball. [imdb]
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The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
Title: The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
Character: Elisabeth Custer
Released: December 1, 1977
Type: Movie
General Custer is on trial for the deaths of his men at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
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Futureworld
Title: Futureworld
Character: Tracy Ballard
Released: August 13, 1976
Type: Movie
Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following over $1 billion in safety and other improvements. For publicity purposes, reporters Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard are invited to review the park. Just prior to arriving at the park, however, Browning is given a clue by a dying man that something is amiss.
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The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Title: The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Character: Alma Winemiller
Released: June 16, 1976
Type: Movie
The tale of a lonely Southern woman's longing for her handsome next-door neighbor. At once tragic and romantic, the story is a reworking of the Williams play "Summer and Smoke," which uses the same characters and setting but in dramatically different ways.
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Title: Saturday Night Live
Character: Self - Host
Released: October 11, 1975
Type: TV
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.
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Hearts of the West
Title: Hearts of the West
Character: Miss Trout
Released: October 8, 1975
Type: Movie
Naive Iowa farm boy Lewis Tater dreams of being a famous Western novelist like his hero, Zane Grey. He leaves home to answer a writing correspondence course's ad for on-campus classes, only to discover that the school consists of a row of postboxes at an isolated Nevada train depot. On the run from the con men responsible, Lewis stumbles across "real" cowboys--cowboy actors shooting a movie in the desert. The would-be writer soon finds himself instead acting in Westerns, for the rundown Tumbleweed Productions studio, in Depression-era Hollywood.
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The Seagull
Title: The Seagull
Character: Nina
Released: January 5, 1975
Type: Movie
Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull" is brought to life in this acclaimed 1975 production directed by John Desmond. Seeking to reform the theater, Konstantin (Frank Langella) has written an experimental play with the lead to be acted by his beloved, Nina (Blythe Danner). He arranges the first performance to take place at a country estate, but the presence of his self-absorbed mother (Lee Grant) and her novelist lover disrupts the production.
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Lovin' Molly
Title: Lovin' Molly
Character: Molly Taylor
Released: April 14, 1974
Type: Movie
Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny fight over the affections of the beautiful and headstrong Molly Taylor, who consistently refuses to marry either of them.
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Sidekicks
Title: Sidekicks
Character: Prudy Jenkins
Released: March 21, 1974
Type: Movie
Travelling through the West right after the Civil War, two con men hatch a scheme to try to collect the fifteen thousand dollar bounty offered for the capture of an outlaw.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles
Title: F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles
Character: Zelda Fitzgerald
Released: January 7, 1974
Type: Movie
A semi-fictional account of how writer F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife while he was in the army and stationed in Alabama in 1919.
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Title: Adam's Rib
Character: Amanda Bonner
Released: September 14, 1973
Type: TV
Adam's Rib is an American situation comedy broadcast on ABC-TV from September 14 to December 28, 1973. It was produced by MGM Television and had 13 episodes. The series was a TV adaptation of the 1949 motion picture of the same name.
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1776
Title: 1776
Character: Martha Jefferson
Released: November 9, 1972
Type: Movie
Colonial representatives gather in Philadelphia with the aim of establishing a set of governmental rules for the burgeoning United States. Benjamin Franklin and John Adams charge Thomas Jefferson with the task of writing a statement announcing the new country's emancipation from British rule.
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Title: M*A*S*H
Character: Carlye
Released: September 17, 1972
Type: TV
The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administrators, and soldiers often find ways of making wartime life bearable.
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To Kill a Clown
Title: To Kill a Clown
Character: Lily Frischer
Released: August 23, 1972
Type: Movie
A young hippie couple rent a secluded cabin on the beach in an attempt to re-connect with each other and save their marriage. Unfortunately, the man they rented the cabin from is a military-brat sociopath with two dogs more vicious than his temper.
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Title: To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Character: Self and other assorted characters
Released: January 20, 1972
Type: Movie
A mosaic biopic on Lorraine Hansberry, based on the stage play combining her unpublished writings, letters, and diaries.
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Scarecrow
Title: Scarecrow
Character: Rachel Merton
Released: January 10, 1972
Type: Movie
Just before the Salem Witch Trials, an embittered old woman, who has learned witchcraft, teams up with the Devil, and brings a scarecrow to life as part of her diabolical revenge on the judge who was once her lover.
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Title: Columbo
Character: Janice Benedict
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: TV
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Self
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: Alma Winemiller
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: Nina
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: Narrator
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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Dr. Cook's Garden
Title: Dr. Cook's Garden
Character: Janey Rausch
Released: January 19, 1971
Type: Movie
A young doctor returns to his New England home town after a long absence. He visits with the town's kindly old physician, Dr. Cook, a man he has admired since childhood. However, he soon finds out that the old doctor isn't quite what he seems to be, and the young doctor finds his life in danger.
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George M!
Title: George M!
Character: Agnes Nolan Cohan
Released: September 12, 1970
Type: Movie
Based on the semi-hit Broadway musical of 1968 starring Joel Grey, this TV version has been re-fashioned in significant ways. The premise here is that a small group of modern-day performers have gotten together in a rehearsal studio to celebrate George M. Cohan's life and work. Joel Grey and Bernadette Peters (also from the original cast) and the other cast members are apparently playing themselves, with Austin Pendleton serving as a stage manager/director.
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Title: The Bell Telephone Hour
Released: January 12, 1959
Type: TV
“The Bell Telephone Hour” was a musical variety show that aired on “NBC” TV from 12 January 1959 to 14 June 1968 that showcased the best in Broadway, Classical, Concert, Jazz and Popular music each week. The series had its’ own house band appropriately named the “Bell Telephone Orchestra”. The show also had its’ own theme song being the “Bell Waltz” composed by “Donald Voorhees” who was also the show's Orchestra conductor. Some of the greatest violinists of the 1960’s performed on this show that aired in the old “Black & White” format. Some of these great violinists included “Erica Mornin”, “Isaac Stern", "Michael Rabin", "Ruggiero Ricci", "Yehudi Menuhin" and "Zino Francesacatti". From time to time some of the great singers and bandleaders of the 1960’s would perform on the show as well. Some of these were “Bing Crosby”, “Gordon MacRae”, “John Gary”, “Leslie Uggams”, “Mary Martin”, “Nelson Eddy”, “Patti Page” and “Roy Rogers”. The TV show followed on the heels of its’ predecessor with the same name on “NBC” radio that aired from 29 April 1940 to 1958 on Monday nights at 8 PM. The name of the show was derived from its’ Major sponsor “Bell Telephone Laboratories”. The TV version began airing on Friday nights at 8:30 PM once a month. It later was given it’s same time slot now airing every other week alternating with another show on the other weeks such as News shows and specials. The show time slot changed quite often over the years. In September 1960 it aired at 9 PM and in September 1961 it moved to 9:30 PM. In October 1963 it moved to Tuesday nights at 10 PM, September 1965 it moved to Sunday night at 6:30 PM and in September 1967 it made its' final move back to Friday night at 10 PM.
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Title: Tony Awards
Character: Self - Nominee
Released: April 1, 1956
Type: TV
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.
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Title: Today
Character: Self
Released: January 14, 1952
Type: TV
Today is a daily American morning television show that airs on NBC. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and is the fifth-longest running American television series. Originally a two-hour program on weekdays, it expanded to Sundays in 1987 and Saturdays in 1992. The weekday broadcast expanded to three hours in 2000, and to four hours in 2007. Today's dominance was virtually unchallenged by the other networks until the late 1980s, when it was overtaken by ABC's Good Morning America. Today retook the Nielsen ratings lead the week of December 11, 1995, and held onto that position for 852 consecutive weeks until the week of April 9, 2012, when it was beaten by Good Morning America yet again. In 2002, Today was ranked #17 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest Television Shows of All Time.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Elizabeth Custer
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Bee Bedloe
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Rebecca Holmes Davitch
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Pretty/Handsome
Character: Bunny
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A married gynecologist, father of two sons, slowly comes to terms with the fact that he wants to undergo sexual reassignment surgery.