Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis

Born: June 20, 1931
Died: May 1, 2021
in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Olympia Dukakis (June 20, 1931 – May 1, 2021) was an American actress. She performed in more than 130 stage productions, more than 60 films and in 50 television series. Best known as a screen actress, she started her career in theater. Not long after her arrival in New York City, she won an Obie Award for Best Actress in 1963 for her off-Broadway performance in Bertolt Brecht's Man Equals Man.

She later moved to film acting and won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, among other accolades, for her performance in Moonstruck (1987). She received another Golden Globe nomination for Sinatra (1992) and Emmy Award nominations for Lucky Day (1991), More Tales of the City (1998) and Joan of Arc (1999). Dukakis's autobiography, Ask Me Again Tomorrow: A Life in Progress, was published in 2003. In 2018, a feature-length documentary about her life, titled Olympia, was released theatrically in the United States.

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Movies for Olympia Dukakis...

Not to Forget
Title: Not to Forget
Character: Judge
Released: November 26, 2021
Type: Movie
A judge sentences a self-centered millennial to take care of his grandmother, who's affected by Alzheimer's. As he realizes the extent of the elderly woman's wealth and becomes her caregiver, the young protagonist gets ever-closer to Grandma and the treasure he's been looking for.
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Cher: In Her Own Words
Title: Cher: In Her Own Words
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 2021
Type: Movie
Cher, the star who refused to be boxed in, stood up to conformity, and championed female independence. Proving the doubters wrong with every change of direction. Her influence on women in the industry, and direction of modern music is incalculable.
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The New Abolitionists
Title: The New Abolitionists
Character: Self
Released: October 10, 2020
Type: Movie
Filmmaker Christina Zorich follows abolitionists throughout Southeast Asia that have dedicated their lives to rescuing, rehabilitating, preventing and prosecuting those involved in human sex trafficking.
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The New Greek Americans
Title: The New Greek Americans
Character: Narrator
Released: May 19, 2020
Type: Movie
A chronicle of the Greek diaspora in the United States, starting from the 60s, when young Greek Americans, despite their conservative and uptight upbringing, started to embrace the flow of change in mentality. Each decade, this community assimilated staggering historical events: from the Civil Rights Movement all the way to the Michael S. Dukakis presidential nomination in 1998, a benchmark for the Greeks population in the USA. Narrated and hosted by Olympia Dukakis, this heartfelt documentary unfolds humorous and touching stories of second and third-generation immigrants, reflecting the multilayered aspects of “growing up Greek” in the USA.
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Title: Tales of the City
Character: Anna Madrigal
Released: June 7, 2019
Type: TV
Mary Ann returns to present-day San Francisco and is reunited with her daughter and ex-husband, twenty years after leaving them behind to pursue her career. Fleeing the midlife crisis that her picture-perfect Connecticut life created, Mary Ann is quickly drawn back into the orbit of Anna Madrigal, her chosen family and a new generation of queer young residents living at 28 Barbary Lane.
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Olympia
Title: Olympia
Character: Herself
Released: November 11, 2018
Type: Movie
Follow Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis behind the scenes in this affectionate profile of a stalwart New Yorker and beloved stage and screen treasure.
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Change in the Air
Title: Change in the Air
Character: Margaret Lemke
Released: October 19, 2018
Type: Movie
A peaceful community is forever changed when a mysterious young woman moves in. As the quirky locals embrace her, their lives soon improve. But, they can't help notice that their strange new neighbor has a secret.
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The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
Title: The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
Character: Self
Released: March 11, 2017
Type: Movie
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin celebrates one of the world’s most beloved storytellers, following his evolution from a conservative son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels inspired millions to reclaim their lives.
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The Infiltrator
Title: The Infiltrator
Character: Aunt Vicky
Released: July 13, 2016
Type: Movie
A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
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Starring Austin Pendleton
Title: Starring Austin Pendleton
Released: April 1, 2016
Type: Movie
A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton.
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Emily & Tim
Title: Emily & Tim
Character: Emily (Segment 6)
Released: August 29, 2015
Type: Movie
The movie is comprised of six vignettes. A look at the tumultuous marriage of Tim and Emily Hanratty over half a century.
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7 Chinese Brothers
Title: 7 Chinese Brothers
Character: Grandma
Released: August 14, 2015
Type: Movie
Larry is an unqualified, unemployable, inebriated prankster who rides a tide of booze onto the glorious shores of an undiscriminating Quick-Lube. Taking a part-time job vacuuming and washing windshields, Larry finds himself mixed up with hostile co-workers and unsatisfied customers, while also finding himself smitten with his lovely boss, Lupe Torrez. Will Larry keep it together long enough to win the girl, provide for man's best friend (his dog Arrow), and do his grandmother proud?
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Irene & Marie
Title: Irene & Marie
Character: Marie
Released: May 17, 2015
Type: Movie
Olympia Dukakis and Rose Gregorio play Greek-American women in their 70s who create stories to avoid the realities of growing older.
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Beneath the Olive Tree
Title: Beneath the Olive Tree
Released: March 7, 2015
Type: Movie
The departure point for this film is a series of notebooks created during the Greek civil war of 1946-49 and first discovered years later, under an olive tree. Inside their pages, diary-like, deported women recount their experiences in Greek concentration camps. Many of them were active in the resistance under Nazi occupation. Actress Olympia Dukakis, who serves as the film’s narrator, was also the individual who originally called director Toska’s attention to the unique documents.
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Big Driver
Title: Big Driver
Character: Doreen
Released: October 18, 2014
Type: Movie
Tess Thorne, a famous writer, is determined to seek revenge on the man who brutally assaulted and raped her on a desolate New England road.
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A Little Game
Title: A Little Game
Character: Yaya
Released: April 26, 2014
Type: Movie
Ostracized at her posh new uptown school and shaken by the death of her beloved grandmother, a 10 year-old downtown girl finds an unlikely mentor in the form of an irascible chess-master, who uses the game to teach Max lessons in resilience, perseverance, and how to embrace inevitable change.
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The Christmas Spirit
Title: The Christmas Spirit
Character: Gwen Hollander
Released: December 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Charlotte Hart, a distinguished journalist, is spending time with her family over the holidays when a real estate developer approaches their small town with quite an offer. Skeptical and looking for the real scoop, Charlotte drives to see the real estate head honcho to question him. While she's en route, she gets into a terrible car accident and wakes up in the hospital only to realize that her body is in a coma, but her spirit is very much awake. She meets another spirit, who just happens to be the greedy developer. It turns out that he was on the other end of the accident and he too is in a coma. With only a few days left before the town votes on the development, Charlotte must try to change the minds of the developer and the town, but that is no easy task when no one can see or hear her. Will her voice be heard?
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Title: Sex & Violence
Character: Alex Mandalakis
Released: November 17, 2013
Type: TV
Follows the lives of a social worker, a victims' advocate and four others who provide support to victims of violence.
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Montana Amazon
Title: Montana Amazon
Character: Ira
Released: March 8, 2013
Type: Movie
The Dunderheads are an eccentric Montana family who've been in the mountains for far too long. Now one step ahead of the law, matriarch Grandma Ira flees to Canada with her two wildly dysfunctional teenage grand kids, across the American West into a comic collision with the mainstream world. Montana Amazon is a both funny and poignant fable on the nature of the human family.
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The Last Keepers
Title: The Last Keepers
Character: Rosmarie Carver
Released: January 4, 2013
Type: Movie
This romantic fantasy movie is about two people who are the last survivors of an ancient line of goddess worshipers, who sell art at a shop. When their teenage daughter Rhea falls in love with a poetically inclined boy , she begins to develop magical powers of her own throwing everything into chaos.
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Joe Papp in Five Acts
Title: Joe Papp in Five Acts
Character: Self
Released: April 30, 2012
Type: Movie
Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and, subsequently, The Public Theater—arguably the most important theatre in North America—is profiled in this documentary that neither sanctifies nor vilifies him. He brought us free Shakespeare in the Park, Hair and A Chorus Line, and nurtured many of America’s greatest playwrights, directors and actors. His complex personality and mercurial behavior are much in evidence and spoken of with frankness through interviews with some of America’s most celebrated artists, including Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Kevin Kline, and James Earl Jones.
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Cloudburst
Title: Cloudburst
Character: Stella
Released: September 23, 2011
Type: Movie
When Dot's granddaughter puts her into a nursing home, Stella stages a breakout, and takes Dot to Canada so they can get married. They pick up a hitchhiker along the way.
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Birds of a Feather
Title: Birds of a Feather
Character: Olympia
Released: March 3, 2011
Type: Movie
A coming of age film for 40 year olds. Three middle-aged friends reunite to put on a play and find themselves again.
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I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Title: I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 2009
Type: Movie
John Cazale was in only five films – The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II, Dog Day Afternoon and The Deer Hunter – each was nominated for Best Picture. Yet today most people don't even know his name. I KNEW IT WAS YOU is a fresh tour through movies that defined a generation.
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Away from Her
Title: Away from Her
Character: Marian
Released: May 4, 2007
Type: Movie
Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absent-mindedness is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. She must go to a specialized nursing home, where she slowly forgets Grant and turns her affection to Aubrey, another patient in the home.
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In the Land of Women
Title: In the Land of Women
Character: Phyllis
Released: April 20, 2007
Type: Movie
After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he gets mixed up in the lives of the mother and daughters who live across the street.
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The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines
Title: The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines
Character: Margie Carsen
Released: September 9, 2006
Type: Movie
After retrieving the Crystal Skull in Utah, Flynn Carsen receives a map in the mail with the secret location of King Solomon's Mines. When the scroll is stolen, Judson explains the power of the Key of Solomon's book and assigns Flynn to retrieve the map. The map is useless without the legend piece to decipher it, which is located in Volubilis near the Roman ruins in Morocco. Flynn heads to Casablanca to the ruins where he is chased by a group of mercenaries leaded by General Samir. They too want to find the location of King Solomon's mines. Flynn teams-up with Professor Emily Davenport working in the dig and they escape from General Samir and his men. While traveling to Gedi, they save the local Jomo from death and the trio faces a dangerous journey through the wild Africa.
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Day On Fire
Title: Day On Fire
Character: Dr. Mary Wade
Released: May 26, 2006
Type: Movie
The lives of a Palestinian journalist and a Jewish model become inextricably, and shockingly, intertwined after they meet by accident in New York.
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Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
Title: Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
Character: Self
Released: January 31, 2006
Type: Movie
Documentary highlighting the development of the screenplay into a film with the desired cast. It also describes the closeness among Italian families, which comes from the kitchen, and how a real Italian father is the source of believability for the film.
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Jesus, Mary and Joey
Title: Jesus, Mary and Joey
Character: Sophia Vitello
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Twenty-something and aimless, Joey Vitello still lives at home with his colorful Italian-American family when he is reunited with a childhood schoolmate, Mary O'Callahan. Once mocked as 'Scary Mary' this ugly duckling has blossomed into an irresistible beauty. She's returned to the old neighborhood after an intense bout with cancer. When Joey learns her cure was the result of a miracle, friendship turns to romance as she educates him on the crossroads to the Almighty. Joey challenges his family's faith with his new found revelations and chaos ensues as they all search for a miracle of their own.
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Whiskey School
Title: Whiskey School
Character: Ellen Haywood
Released: September 11, 2005
Type: Movie
Leopold De Angeli is a talented playwright, but like many scribes he fancies the drink a little too much. In the hopes of saving Leopold's life, his theater friends come together to stage an intervention for him.
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3 Needles
Title: 3 Needles
Character: Hilde
Released: September 9, 2005
Type: Movie
A three-paneled look at the worldwide AIDS crisis: in Montreal, a porn actor schemes to pass his mandatory blood test; a young nun makes a personal sacrifice for the benefit of a South African village; in rural China, a black market operative posing as a government-sanctioned blood drawer jeopardizes an entire village's safety
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The Thing About My Folks
Title: The Thing About My Folks
Character: Muriel Kleinman
Released: June 2, 2005
Type: Movie
Ben's dad Sam shows up one night with a note from Ben's mother (Sam's wife of 46 years), that she has left. While Ben's wife and his three sisters try to find her, Ben takes Sam on a day trip to see a farmhouse that's for sale. The day trip turns into a road trip while dad and son explore their past, their relationship, and why Sam's wife might have left him. The road trip includes fishing, drinking, playing pool, sleeping under the stars, and frank discussion. Anger simmers close at hand, as do love and hope. Where Sam's wife is - and why she left - leads to the movie's resolution.
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The Great New Wonderful
Title: The Great New Wonderful
Character: Judy Hillerman
Released: April 22, 2005
Type: Movie
The Great New Wonderful weaves five stories against the backdrop of an anxious and uncertain post-9-11 New York City.
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Title: Numb3rs
Released: January 23, 2005
Type: TV
Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very different perspective.
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Title: Center of the Universe
Character: Marge Barnett
Released: October 27, 2004
Type: TV
Center of the Universe is a television series on CBS, which ran from October 27, 2004, until January 19, 2005. The sitcom was canceled after just 10 episodes aired. It was set in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma. John Goodman starred as John Barnett, a good-natured and successful operator of a security company. The series involved the dependency of his entire family on John for everything -- money, jobs, housing, and personal guidance in every decision. Tagline: "The world doesn't revolve around John...but his family does." A total of 15 episodes were produced.
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The Librarian: Quest for the Spear
Title: The Librarian: Quest for the Spear
Character: Margie Carsen
Released: July 12, 2004
Type: Movie
When a magical artifact is lifted from his library, a meek librarian sets out to ensure its safe return.
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Charlie's War
Title: Charlie's War
Character: Charlie
Released: May 2, 2003
Type: Movie
Charlie's War is the story of Charlotte Lewis, a woman who is experiencing serious emotional and mental turmoil brought about by nightmares of increasing intensity. In the dreams, she is a young girl, and she runs from unknown terrors. Trying to understand her troubling dreams, Charlotte revisits part of her childhood, which comes back to her in a series of impressionistic memories. Charlie, her sister, Jobie, and her mother move in with her grandmother. It is 1944, and World War II rages in Europe and the Far East. Though Grandma's farm seems to be a peaceful refuge, there is an undercurrent of fear and brooding menace in their surroundings.
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Mafia Doctor
Title: Mafia Doctor
Character: Rose Dellarusso
Released: March 16, 2003
Type: Movie
Growing up poor on the streets of New Jersey, Frank Siena (Danny Nucci) has little hope of realizing his dream of becoming a doctor. But "fate" has a way of intervening. Now a brilliant, successful cardiac surgeon, Frank seems to have it all, except for one terrible secret: Before he swore to save lives and do no harm, Frank took another oath... to mob boss Nicola Delarusso (Paul Sorvino), who paid his way through medical school in exchange for absolute loyalty. And when Delarusso demands payment in full Frank suffers a crisis of conscience that could cost him his job, his wife... and his life!
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The Event
Title: The Event
Character: Lila Shapiro
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Manhattan prosecutor Nick is charged with looking into the untimely death of city resident Matt, a musician who had AIDS. As she questions Matt's loyal family members -mother Lila and sister Dana- she comes to learn that his closest pal, health-care worker Brian, is an ardent believer in assisted suicide and that he threw Matt a big party before his death. This presents a dilemma for the humane but dutiful Nick.
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The Intended
Title: The Intended
Character: Erina
Released: June 6, 2002
Type: Movie
A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading post and encounter a closed-fisted ivory trader and her ill-meaning family.
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Guilty Hearts
Title: Guilty Hearts
Character: Amanda Patterson
Released: February 10, 2002
Type: Movie
Quiet and unassuming church organist Jenny Moran is depressed with her marriage to working-class Matt and leaves him. Jenny begins an affair with the manipulative and charming Dr. Stephen Carrow, who is also deacon of her church and a married man. Someone kills Carrow's wife after she learns of the affair between Jenny and her husband. The murderer is caught and confesses, but that confession leads to new lies which tear apart Jenny Moran's life.
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Title: Further Tales of the City
Character: Anna Madrigal
Released: May 6, 2001
Type: TV
Residents of 28 Barbary Lane continue to navigate human life, flawed love, and blind hope in 1980's San Francisco.
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Ladies and The Champ
Title: Ladies and The Champ
Character: Sara Stevens
Released: April 21, 2001
Type: Movie
Two retired women (Olympia Dukakis, Marion Ross) find their lives rejuvenated when they decide to train a street thug (David deLuise) to become a prize fighter.
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And Never Let Her Go
Title: And Never Let Her Go
Character: Marguerite Capano
Released: April 1, 2001
Type: Movie
The true story of a woman's suspicious disappearance after ending an affair with a powerful, married attorney.
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Title: And Never Let Her Go
Character: Marguerite Capano
Released: April 1, 2001
Type: TV
The true story of a woman's suspicious disappearance after ending an affair with a powerful, married attorney.
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My Beautiful Son
Title: My Beautiful Son
Character: Esther Lipman
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Drama - A NYC psychiatrist is diagnosed with leukemia - and when he finds out he was adopted, he travels to England in search of his birth mother and some answers. - Paul Reiser, Amber Sealey, Lachele Carl
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Borough of Kings
Title: Borough of Kings
Character: Helen Manners
Released: December 31, 2000
Type: Movie
Toil and trouble. Jimmy, an aspiring actor, wants out of South Brooklyn where hoods run the show. Since the death of his firefighter father, Jimmy's family has been the guys at the station house and Tommy, a mobster who owns a gym where Jimmy works. Tommy encourages Jimmy's dreams, and Jimmy gets the part of Banquo in a Joseph Papps production of "Macbeth." He goes to tell Tommy the good news and walks in on a mob hit. Tommy protects him temporarily from Nunzio, a murderous Mamaluc, but soon the cops get word Jimmy knows something. Can Jimmy succeed as an actor, be a stand up guy for Tommy, avoid Nunzio, and get closer to Anna, a woman he falls for at the theater?
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The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Title: The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Character: Dinah
Released: August 26, 2000
Type: Movie
After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its members, the roses on the drum set, and herself--the last of the Blonde Bombshells.
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Crimes of Honour
Title: Crimes of Honour
Released: December 31, 1999
Type: Movie
Throughout the Islamic world, each year hundreds of women are shot, stabbed, strangled or burned to death by male relatives because they are thought to have “dishonoured” their families. They may have lost their virginity, refused an arranged marriage or left an abusive husband. Even if a woman is raped or merely the victim of gossip, she must pay the price. Crimes of Honour documents the terrible reality of femicide – the belief that a girl’s body is the property of the family, and any suggestion of sexual impropriety must be cleansed with her blood. We meet women in hiding from their families, a brother who describes his reasons for killing the sister he loved, and a handful of women who have committed themselves to the protection of young women in danger of losing their lives.
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Crimes of Honour
Title: Crimes of Honour
Character: Narrator
Released: December 31, 1999
Type: Movie
Throughout the Islamic world, each year hundreds of women are shot, stabbed, strangled or burned to death by male relatives because they are thought to have “dishonoured” their families. They may have lost their virginity, refused an arranged marriage or left an abusive husband. Even if a woman is raped or merely the victim of gossip, she must pay the price. Crimes of Honour documents the terrible reality of femicide – the belief that a girl’s body is the property of the family, and any suggestion of sexual impropriety must be cleansed with her blood. We meet women in hiding from their families, a brother who describes his reasons for killing the sister he loved, and a handful of women who have committed themselves to the protection of young women in danger of losing their lives.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Debby Marsh
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Title: Joan of Arc
Character: Mother Babette
Released: May 16, 1999
Type: TV
Joan of Arc is born in 1412 in the village of Domrémy in the war zone of Northern France. During her youth she often witnesses the horrors of war, but her spirit is kept high by the legend of the Maiden of Lorraine. This says that a young maiden one day will unite the divided country and lead the people to freedom.
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Better Living
Title: Better Living
Character: Nora
Released: November 2, 1998
Type: Movie
A comedy about families, the elements that bind them together, and about hope in the face of hardship.
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Jane Austen's Mafia!
Title: Jane Austen's Mafia!
Character: Sophia
Released: July 24, 1998
Type: Movie
Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father.
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Title: So Graham Norton
Character: Self - Guest
Released: July 3, 1998
Type: TV
So Graham Norton was a British television programme, hosted by Irish personality Graham Norton. It ran from 3 July 1998 to 1 March 2002.
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Title: More Tales of the City
Character: Anna Madrigal
Released: June 7, 1998
Type: TV
Lonely inhabitants at 28 Barbary Lane search for love and identity, turning to each other in the hope of finding happiness in San Francisco.
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The Pentagon Wars
Title: The Pentagon Wars
Character: Madam Chairwoman
Released: February 28, 1998
Type: Movie
From the director of “Made In America” and “The Money Pit” comes a hilarious look at one of the most expensive blunders in military history. Over 17 years and almost as many billion dollars have gone into devising the BFV (Bradley Fighting Vehicle). There's only one problem. . . it doesn't work.
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Scattering Dad
Title: Scattering Dad
Character: Dotty
Released: January 4, 1998
Type: Movie
An agoraphobic woman who hasn't left her home in 20 years receives a visit from the spirit of her deceased husband who reminds her of a promise she made to scatter his ashes at his favorite vacation spot. With her daughters unavailable, she sets off to fulfill the promise herself.
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Title: The View
Character: Self
Released: August 11, 1997
Type: TV
ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Meghan McCain, and Abby Huntsman, discussing the most exciting events of the day. Hot topics in the news, the best experts in their field, celebrity interviews and general entertainment are all part of The View.
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Picture Perfect
Title: Picture Perfect
Character: Rita
Released: August 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.
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A Match Made in Heaven
Title: A Match Made in Heaven
Character: Helen Rosner
Released: April 27, 1997
Type: Movie
A dying widow plays matchmaker to her 32-year-old unmarried son and sets him up with a nurse that she meets.
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Milk & Money
Title: Milk & Money
Character: Goneril Plogg
Released: October 19, 1996
Type: Movie
When David drops out of medical school, he finds out what life isn't really like. He meets beautiful women, holds a box, helps make a movie, and takes care of 21 cows in Manhattan.
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Jerusalem
Title: Jerusalem
Character: Mother (Mrs. Gordon)
Released: September 6, 1996
Type: Movie
Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.
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Never Too Late
Title: Never Too Late
Character: Rose
Released: August 26, 1996
Type: Movie
Four old friends reunite to investigate the death of a good friend.
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Mr. Holland's Opus
Title: Mr. Holland's Opus
Character: Principal Jacobs
Released: December 29, 1995
Type: Movie
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.
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Mighty Aphrodite
Title: Mighty Aphrodite
Character: Jocasta
Released: September 13, 1995
Type: Movie
When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda Ash, a kindhearted prostitute and porn star, Lenny is determined to reform her immoral lifestyle. A Greek chorus chimes in to relate the plot to Greek mythology in this quirky comedy.
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Jeffrey
Title: Jeffrey
Character: Mrs. Marcangelo
Released: August 18, 1995
Type: Movie
Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect himself. As fate would have it, shortly after his declaration of a sex-free existence, he meets the handsome Steve Howard, his dream man -- except for his HIV-positive status. Facing this dilemma, Jeffrey turns to his best friend and an outrageous priest for guidance.
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Dead Badge
Title: Dead Badge
Character: Dr. Doris Rice
Released: March 28, 1995
Type: Movie
After a cop dies, his shield goes back on duty. They call it a "dead badge" - a way to honor a fallen officer. Badge #2424 used to belong to Many Torres - a cop who died of a heroin O.D. Now it belongs to Dan Sampson... and it's haunting him.
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Young at Heart
Title: Young at Heart
Character: Rose Garaventi
Released: March 12, 1995
Type: Movie
A matriarch of three generations born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, discovers that her recently-deceased husband has lost their bar and home to a gambling debt.
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Mother
Title: Mother
Character: Mrs. Jay
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Weisser is a young college bound man whose future is threatened when his mother interferes with his love life and a pending scholarship. He also discovers that his mother's best friend wishes to get closer to him, even if it means murder.
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Title: Touched by an Angel
Character: Clara
Released: September 21, 1994
Type: TV
Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.
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Title: Inside the Actors Studio
Character: Self
Released: August 14, 1994
Type: TV
James Lipton sits down with some of the world's most accomplished actors and directors for penetrating, fascinating interviews.
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I Love Trouble
Title: I Love Trouble
Character: Jeannie
Released: June 29, 1994
Type: Movie
Rival Chicago reporters Sabrina Peterson and Peter Brackett join forces to uncover a train wreck conspiracy.
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Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
Title: Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
Character: Olympia Dukakis (uncredited)
Released: March 18, 1994
Type: Movie
Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.
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Title: Intimate Portrait
Character: Self
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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Look Who's Talking Now!
Title: Look Who's Talking Now!
Character: Rosie
Released: November 5, 1993
Type: Movie
When high-powered executive Samantha LeBon hatches a scheme to spend a romantic Christmas with her new employee – the unsuspecting, blithesome James – his wife, their kids and their two dogs, Rocks and Daphne, must rescue him before he makes a terrible mistake.
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Digger
Title: Digger
Character: Bea
Released: September 29, 1993
Type: Movie
A young boy is sent to live with relatives when his parents break up. He befriends a dying boy who has an eerie connection with nature.
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Title: Tales of the City
Character: Anna Madrigal
Released: September 28, 1993
Type: TV
Mary Ann Singleton, a naïve young secretary from the mid-west, tumbles head first into the colorful world of San Francisco, where carefree chaos revolves around the funky old apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane.
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Title: Frasier
Character: Caller #3 (voice)
Released: September 16, 1993
Type: TV
After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.
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The Cemetery Club
Title: The Cemetery Club
Character: Doris Silverman
Released: February 3, 1993
Type: Movie
The story of three Pittsburgh widows who meet every year to visit their husband's graves and talk about perspectives in their lives.
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Title: Sinatra
Character: Dolly Sinatra
Released: November 8, 1992
Type: TV
Sinatra is a 1992 CBS miniseries biography and drama, starring Philip Casnoff as singer Frank Sinatra, developed and executive produced by Frank's youngest daughter Tina Sinatra.
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Over the Hill
Title: Over the Hill
Character: Alma Harris
Released: June 30, 1992
Type: Movie
Alma can't stand to have one more birthday without seeing her estranged daughter, Elizabeth, who lives in Sydney, Australia.
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Fire in the Dark
Title: Fire in the Dark
Character: Emily Miller
Released: July 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A 75-year old widow with battles herself as she struggles with being a burden to those she loves. Though determined not to rely on her children, she is forced to move in with her daughter after a serious fall, and the family learns to face the future with dignity and hope.
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Lucky Day
Title: Lucky Day
Character: Katherine Campbell
Released: March 10, 1991
Type: Movie
When 30-year-old Allison Campbell wins a $2 million lottery, her family life turns upside down not just because of her winnings but because Allison is mentally handicapped. Kari, her younger sister, has been caring for Alison for 10 years. Problems arise when the girls' mother, Katherine, decides she wants Allison to live with her.
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Look Who's Talking Too
Title: Look Who's Talking Too
Character: Rosie
Released: December 14, 1990
Type: Movie
Mollie and James are together and raising a family, which now consists of an older Mikey and his baby sister, Julie. Tension between the siblings arises, and as well with Mollie and James when Mollie's brother Stuart moves in. Mikey is also learning how to use the toilet for the first time.
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In the Spirit
Title: In the Spirit
Character: Sue
Released: April 6, 1990
Type: Movie
After her husband loses his job, Marianne moves from Beverly Hills to a nightmare New York City. She hires ditzy psychic Reva to redecorate her apartment, and they end up being pursued by a crazed killer.
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Title: The Simpsons
Released: December 17, 1989
Type: TV
Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.
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Steel Magnolias
Title: Steel Magnolias
Character: Clairee Belcher
Released: November 15, 1989
Type: Movie
A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.
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Dad
Title: Dad
Character: Bette Tremont
Released: October 27, 1989
Type: Movie
A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. Estranged from his own son, the executive comes to realize what has been missing in his own life.
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Look Who's Talking
Title: Look Who's Talking
Character: Rosie
Released: October 12, 1989
Type: Movie
Mollie is a single working mother who's out to find the perfect father for her child. Her baby, Mikey, prefers James, a cab driver turned babysitter who has what it takes to make them both happy. But Mollie won't even consider James. It's going to take all the tricks a baby can think of to bring them together before it's too late.
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Working Girl
Title: Working Girl
Character: Personnel Director
Released: December 20, 1988
Type: Movie
Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess takes over her office, her apartment and even her wardrobe. She creates a deal with a handsome investment banker that will either take her to the top, or finish her off for good.
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Moonstruck
Title: Moonstruck
Character: Rose Castorini
Released: December 16, 1987
Type: Movie
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him. When she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny, an emotional and passionate man, she finds herself drawn to him. She tries to resist, but Ronny, who blames his brother for the loss of his hand, has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls for Ronny, she learns that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.
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Flanagan
Title: Flanagan
Character: Mary
Released: October 30, 1985
Type: Movie
Aging New York cabbie Flanagan still has hopes of making it as a stage actor. He can recite any Shakespeare sonnet and is facile with accents, but he can't land an agent or a job. During the course of one summing-it-all-up day, he drives his cab around the city dealing with fare evaders, an insolent stage manager determined to keep him from auditioning for his choice director, his estranged wife who has a new lover, his mistress who seems awfully close to her "drawing teacher", and two teenage sons whose bright visions of the future don't seem to include jobs. If he can only cope with all the annoyances of this day, maybe he can deal with the limitations in his abilities and his future.
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Title: The Equalizer
Character: Judge Paula G. Walsh
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: TV
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
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The Neighborhood
Title: The Neighborhood
Character: Mrs. St Paul
Released: April 25, 1982
Type: Movie
A neighborhood in Brooklyn reacts to the first black families moving into the community.
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National Lampoon's Movie Madness
Title: National Lampoon's Movie Madness
Character: Helena Naxos ("Success Wanters")
Released: April 23, 1982
Type: Movie
A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.
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King of America
Title: King of America
Character: Mama Nicola
Released: January 19, 1982
Type: Movie
Hot-tempered Greek immigrant Andreas arrives in America in 1915. He finds work on a railroad, but soon gives his corrupt foreman Mekakis a savage beating. Making his way west across the country, Andreas eventually comes upon another railroad looking for workers. It turns out Mekakis has gone westward, too. He offers Andreas the only job suitable for him, a "mountain mover" on the suicide squad: He must grapple down the face of a cliff, position sticks of dynamite and then climb back up again before the lit fuses reach the explosive.
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The Idolmaker
Title: The Idolmaker
Character: Mrs. Vacarri
Released: November 14, 1980
Type: Movie
Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.
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F.D.R.: The Last Year
Title: F.D.R.: The Last Year
Released: May 15, 1980
Type: Movie
Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasion and engages in tempestuous summit meetings with his wartime allies Stalin and Churchill.
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Rich Kids
Title: Rich Kids
Character: Lawyer
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 Wanderers
Title: The Wanderers
Character: Joey's Mom
Released: July 13, 1979
Type: Movie
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’
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The Wanderers
Title: The Wanderers
Character: Joey's Mother (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1979
Type: Movie
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’
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Title: The Andros Targets
Character: Marina Angelis
Released: January 31, 1977
Type: TV
James Sutorious star as Mike Andros, a newspaper investigative reporter who seeks out corruption and injustice in this this action-drama series.
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The Seagull
Title: The Seagull
Character: Pauline
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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Death Wish
Title: Death Wish
Character: Cop at the Precinct (uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1974
Type: Movie
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
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Nicky's World
Title: Nicky's World
Character: Irene Kaminios
Released: April 19, 1974
Type: Movie
A close-knit Greek-American family, jeopardized when its Manhattan bakery goes up in flames, looks desperately for ways to solve the financial dilemma of repossession and property without destroying its heritage.
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The Rehearsal
Title: The Rehearsal
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
An indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The film tries to give a reconstruction of the events during the students' uprising in the Athens Polytechnic (November 1973) by documents, rehearsals, interviews, songs and poems.
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Sisters
Title: Sisters
Character: Louise Wilanski
Released: November 18, 1972
Type: Movie
Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is forced to take matters into her own hands. Her first move is to recruit private investigator Joseph Larch, who helps her to uncover a secret about Danielle's past that has them both seeing double.
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Made For Each Other
Title: Made For Each Other
Character: Gig's Mother
Released: December 12, 1971
Type: Movie
An eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Pauline
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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John and Mary
Title: John and Mary
Character: John's Mother
Released: December 14, 1969
Type: Movie
John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.
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Stiletto
Title: Stiletto
Character: Mrs. Amato (uncredited)
Released: July 30, 1969
Type: Movie
A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decides it's time to retire from that life, he finds that his former employers don't like the idea that someone who knows so much about them won't be under their control anymore, and decide to send their own hitmen to eliminate him.
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Lilith
Title: Lilith
Character: Patient (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Vincent Bruce, a war veteran, begins working as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge, a private psychiatric facility for wealthy people where he meets Lilith Arthur, a charming young woman suffering from schizophrenia, whose fragile beauty captivates all who meet her.
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Twice a Man
Title: Twice a Man
Character: Young Mother
Released: December 27, 1963
Type: Movie
A reworking of the myth of Hippolytus, in which a chaste youth rejects the incestuous advances of his mother and is saved from death by a caring physician.
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Title: Dr. Kildare
Character: Anna Nieves
Released: September 27, 1961
Type: TV
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
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Title: Search for Tomorrow
Released: September 3, 1951
Type: TV
Search for Tomorrow is an American soap opera that premiered on September 3, 1951, on CBS. The show was moved from CBS to NBC on March 29, 1982. It continued on NBC until the final episode aired on December 26, 1986, a run of thirty-five years. At the time of its final broadcast, it was the longest-running non-news program on television. This record would later be broken by Hallmark Hall of Fame, which premiered on Christmas Eve 1951 and still airs occasionally. The show was created by Roy Winsor and was first written by Agnes Nixon for thirteen weeks and, later, by Irving Vendig.