Mary Tanner Bailey

Mary Tanner Bailey

Born: May 21, 1963
in Los Angeles, California, USA
Mary Tanner (born 21 May 1963) is an actress whose career includes over 100 professional roles in film, television and theatre. After high profile roles for CBS and PBS in the 1980s, she returned to her native Nashville in the early '90s and began writing and producing local productions. She eventually went into puppeteering and puppet building with Wishing Chair Productions and, later, Brianimations, with Brian Hull. Tanner continues to act, and in 2019, she was seen in Dolly Parton’s Smokey Mountain Christmas Carol at the Emerson Colonial Theater in Boston, MA and God, Help Us!, co-starring Ed Asner, at the Franklin Theater in Franklin, TN.

Movies for Mary Tanner Bailey...

An Uncommon Grace
Title: An Uncommon Grace
Character: Rose Fisher
Released: February 12, 2017
Type: Movie
An army nurse returning from Afghanistan discovers her purpose in a rural Ohio farm community, along with a deep connection with a neighbor whose conservative Amish sect strictly forbids relationships with those outside his church community.
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The Work and the Glory II: American Zion
Title: The Work and the Glory II: American Zion
Character: Elsa Johnson
Released: October 21, 2005
Type: Movie
"The Work and The Glory: American Zion" sets the story of the fictional Steed family against the historically factual backdrop of the Mormon people's move into the West. Divided by their diverse reactions to a nascent ideology, the Steeds struggle to hold together as the strength of their convictions and their filial bonds are tested. The stirring narrative of the faith that led a persecuted people to Missouri and beyond is one of the most poignant untold tales of American history. It is the account of a valiant struggle to exercise the rights promised by a fledgling nation. "The Work and the Glory: American Zion" unearths the story of the passion behind the movement which eventually launched the largest American migration and the colonization of the West: the vision of a promised land in America.
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Getting Up and Going Home
Title: Getting Up and Going Home
Character: Barbara 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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Return to Green Acres
Title: Return to Green Acres
Character: Daisy Ziffel
Released: May 18, 1990
Type: Movie
Tv movie that reunites most the show's cast members. The Douglases move back to New York. But when Haney tries to get everyone's property so that a developer can build on them, the residents go to New York to get Douglas to help them. But he's a little hesitant.
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Willy/Milly
Title: Willy/Milly
Character: Stephanie
Released: November 14, 1986
Type: Movie
Milly is annoyed whenever her mom tells her to behave more appropriate for a girl. She's just not interested in fancy dresses or prom dances. Some day her best friend's little brother offers her a potion which can make her deepest wish come true during a solar eclipse. She goes through with it and ends up with male genitals, additionally. So she has to decide if she wants to life as boy or girl. Her father, who always wanted a son, supports her in checking out life as a boy. Hence Milly changes school and starts out as Willy.
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Private Sessions
Title: Private Sessions
Character: Millie Braden
Released: March 18, 1985
Type: Movie
A therapist goes outside his office and into his patients' personal lives to help them. He is treating a man who is hearing sounds but apparently there is nothing wrong with him psychologically. And a woman who despite being in a healthy relationship goes around picking up guys and having sex with them. She decides to seek help and what the doctor learns is that the problem goes back to her childhood and her family.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Monica McCumber
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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A Billion for Boris
Title: A Billion for Boris
Character: Annabel Andrews
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
In this family-friendly sequel to Freaky Friday, teenaged Boris realizes that his television set is somehow receiving broadcasts from the future, so he starts betting piles of cash on horse races and making himself outrageously rich. Boris is on top of the world...until he discovers that something this good doesn't come without a price.
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Title: CBS Schoolbreak Special
Character: Debbie Welker
Released: April 19, 1980
Type: TV
CBS Schoolbreak Special is an American anthology series for teenagers that aired on CBS from April 1980 to January 1996. The series began under the title CBS Afternoon Playhouse, and was changed during the 1984 - 85 season. The concept was very similar to ABC's Afterschool Special.