Frances Sternhagen

Frances Sternhagen

Born: January 13, 1930
Died: November 27, 2023
in Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Frances Hussey Sternhagen was an American Tony winning actress. Sternhagen had appeared on and off Broadway, in movies, and on TV since the 1950s.

Movies for Frances Sternhagen...

And So It Goes
Title: And So It Goes
Character: Claire
Released: July 17, 2014
Type: Movie
Nobody likes self-centered realtor Oren Little, and he prefers it that way. He's deliberately mean to anyone who crosses his path and wants nothing more than to sell one final house and retire. His life turns upside-down when his estranged son drops off a granddaughter he never knew existed. Suddenly left in charge of her and with no idea how to take care of a child, he pawns the girl off on his neighbor, Leah -- but he eventually learns how to open his heart.
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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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Dolphin Tale
Title: Dolphin Tale
Character: Gloria Forrest
Released: September 22, 2011
Type: Movie
A story centered on the friendship between a boy and a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap.
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Title: Parenthood
Character: Blanche Braverman
Released: March 2, 2010
Type: TV
The trials and tribulations of the very large, colorful and imperfect Braverman family.
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Julie & Julia
Title: Julie & Julia
Character: Irma Rombauer
Released: August 6, 2009
Type: Movie
Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
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When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
Title: When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
Character: Self
Released: March 25, 2008
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes documentary on the making of the film.
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The Mist
Title: The Mist
Character: Irene Reppler
Released: November 21, 2007
Type: Movie
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.
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Title: The Closer
Character: Willie Ray Johnson
Released: June 13, 2005
Type: TV
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Johnson's quirky personality and hard-nosed approach often rubs her colleagues the wrong way, but her reputation as one of the world's best interrogator eventually wins over even her toughest critics.
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Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star
Title: Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star
Character: Self - Actress
Released: February 4, 2003
Type: Movie
This is a lovely documentary that pays tribute to the career of star Jessica Tandy, as the filmmakers recall what it was like to work with this marvelous actress. This featurette is fairly short, but it offers fine insight, history and heart
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Misery Loves Company
Title: Misery Loves Company
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
A documentary presenting the behind the scenes of Rob Reiner's classic "Misery", with Reiner himself, Kathy Bates, James Caan, Frances Sternhagen, writer William Goldman, Barry Sonnenfeld (the film's cinematographer) presenting their views on the film years later of its release and the impact "Misery" had in their professional lives.
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Highway
Title: Highway
Character: Mrs. Murray
Released: March 26, 2002
Type: Movie
Jack is caught with the wife of his employer, a Vegas thug. The thug sends goons after Jack, who convinces his best friend, Pilot, to flee with him. Pilot insists that they head for Seattle, but doesn't tell Jack why. The goons learn from Pilot's drug source where the youths are headed, and they follow, hell bent on breaking Jack's feet. On the road, Jack and Pilot give a ride to Cassie, a distressed young woman. She and Jack hit it off. They pick up an aging stoner headed to Seattle for Kurt Cobain's memorial, and they help a circus sideshow family. Why is Pilot so set on Seattle, will the goons catch Jack, and is there any way the friends' competing needs can be resolved?
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The Laramie Project
Title: The Laramie Project
Character: Marge Murray
Released: January 10, 2002
Type: Movie
"The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard. To create the stage version of "The Laramie Project," the eight-member New York-based Tectonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, recording hours of interviews with the town's citizens over a two-year period. The film adaptation dramatizes the troupe's visit, using the actual words from the transcripts to create a portrait of a town forced to confront itself.
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Curtain Call
Title: Curtain Call
Character: Amy
Released: December 5, 1998
Type: Movie
A bachelor afraid of marriage angers his long-time girlfriend by buying a splendid townhouse just for himself, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of a famous theatrical couple, who teach him about love and commitment.
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Title: Sex and the City
Character: Bunny MacDougal
Released: June 6, 1998
Type: TV
Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as they pursue their careers and talk about their sex lives, all while trying to survive the New York social scene. 
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To Live Again
Title: To Live Again
Character: Constance Holmes
Released: March 8, 1998
Type: Movie
A loopy mother locks her teenage daughter in her room after allegedly showing signs of being crazy. Over a decade later, somebody finally investigates, removes the daughter from the mother's care, and attempts to rehabilitate the daughter.
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The Con
Title: The Con
Character: Hadabelle
Released: March 4, 1998
Type: Movie
A lonely gas station attendent in Mississippi falls in love with a con woman who wants to get her hands on an inheritance he doesn't know about.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Jean Anderson
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: TV
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
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Reunion
Title: Reunion
Character: Tobie Yates
Released: December 10, 1994
Type: Movie
The undying bond between a mother and her beloved son nearly destroys the lives of an entire family. Jessie Yates (Marlo Thomas) is torn between the ghost of her son and the life she has created with her husband and family.
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Title: ER
Character: Millicent Carter
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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Vault of Horror I
Title: Vault of Horror I
Character: Effie Gluckman
Released: July 2, 1994
Type: Movie
A compilation of three episodes from the Tales from the Crypt series ("Carrion Death", "None but the lonely heart" and "Abra Cadaver") with some famous cast and directors.
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Title: The Road Home
Character: Charlotte Babineaux
Released: March 5, 1994
Type: TV
The Road Home is an American TV series that aired on CBS from March 5, 1994, to April 16, 1994. The series starred Karen Allen, Ed Flanders, Terence Knox, Jessica Bowman and Christopher Masterson. 5 episodes were produced.
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Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story
Title: Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story
Character: Mary Rafferty
Released: May 9, 1993
Type: Movie
When a woman learns she cannot bear children, her mother decides to be a surrogate for her.
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The Donner Party
Title: The Donner Party
Character: voice
Released: October 28, 1992
Type: Movie
Doomed attempt to get to California in 1846. More than just a riveting tale of death, endurance and survival. The Donner Party's nightmarish journey penetrated to the very heart of the American Dream at a crucial phase of the nation's "manifest destiny." Touching some of the most powerful social, economic and political currents of the time, this extraordinary narrative remains one of the most compelling and enduring episodes to come out of the West.
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Raising Cain
Title: Raising Cain
Character: Dr. Lynn Waldheim
Released: August 7, 1992
Type: Movie
When neighborhood kids begin vanishing, Jenny suspects her child psychologist husband, Carter, may be resuming the deranged experiments his father performed on Carter when he was young. Now, it falls to Jenny to unravel the mystery. And as more children disappear, she fears for her own child's safety.
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She Woke Up
Title: She Woke Up
Character: Noelle DuVausant
Released: January 19, 1992
Type: Movie
A socialite comes out of a coma determined to identify her assailant who may be a family member with a motive to strike again.
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Doc Hollywood
Title: Doc Hollywood
Character: Lillian, Welcoming Committee
Released: August 2, 1991
Type: Movie
After leaving Washington D.C. hospital, plastic surgeon Ben Stone heads for California, where a lucrative practice in Beverly Hills awaits. After a car accident, he's sentenced to perform as the community's general practitioner.
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Title: Golden Years
Character: Gina Williams
Released: July 16, 1991
Type: TV
A science lab's elderly janitor is caught in an explosion and inexplicably begins getting younger, making him a target for a sinister agency.
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Golden Years
Title: Golden Years
Character: Gina Williams
Released: July 16, 1991
Type: Movie
When an explosion at a top-secret government lab injures an elderly janitor, no one could have expected the terrifying results. Exposure to mysterious chemicals causes him to undergo a bizarre transformation. He is slowly... incredibly... growing younger every day. Now, a ruthless CIA assassin will stop at nothing to take him prisoner and turn him into a government guinea pig. With his future on the line, the janitor goes on the run with his wife and a feisty female agent. All the while, he continues to transform... into a being with powers that are as deadly as they are unimaginable.
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Coney Island
Title: Coney Island
Character: (voice)
Released: February 4, 1991
Type: Movie
Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of New York real estate was internationally famous. On summer Sundays, three great pleasure domes--Steeplechase, Luna Park and Dreamland--competed for the patronage of a half-million people. By day it was the world's most amazing amusement park, by night, an electric "Eden".
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Misery
Title: Misery
Character: Virginia
Released: November 30, 1990
Type: Movie
After stalking and saving the life of her favorite fiction author in a car accident, his manic obsessor holds him captive in her remote Colorado home then forces him to write back to life the popular literary character he killed off.
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Sibling Rivalry
Title: Sibling Rivalry
Character: Rose Turner
Released: October 26, 1990
Type: Movie
Marjorie Turner is suffocating. Her younger sister Jeanine has no ambition, and her 8 year marriage to Harry puts her in constant competition with his family (all doctors)..
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Margaret Langdon
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Estelle Muller
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Title: Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Character: Self
Released: August 27, 1990
Type: Movie
A leading acting teacher who trained some of the most famous performers of the stage and screen, Sanford Meisner was a founding member of the Group Theatre. The Group Theatre, a cooperative theater ensemble, became a leading force in the theater world of the 30s. Meisner performed in many of the group’s most memorable productions.
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Follow Your Heart
Title: Follow Your Heart
Character: Cloe Sixbury
Released: April 2, 1990
Type: Movie
An ex-marine, in search of some defining life direction, unexpectedly faces a hurdle when his jeep breaks down in a sparsely populated Wyoming town. While waiting for parts to repair the vehicle he takes a temporary job as a rest area attendant and moves onto a ranch run by a one-legged widow with a mentally handicapped son. When an abandoned Vietnamese girl joins the group, the scene is ready for confrontation and tragedy.
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Title: The Simpsons
Character: Mrs. Bellamy (voice)
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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Communion
Title: Communion
Character: Dr. Janet Duffy
Released: November 10, 1989
Type: Movie
A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.
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Title: Tales from the Crypt
Character: Effie Gluckman
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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See You in the Morning
Title: See You in the Morning
Character: Neenie
Released: April 14, 1989
Type: Movie
Three years after his divorce from his model-wife is the psychologist Larry Livingstone ready for a new commitment. He falls in love with the young widow Beth who has two children. But Beth and the children are still in mourning over their dead husband and father and Larry finds it a bit difficult to penetrate their reservations. Larry himself has to deal with his ex-wife and his love for his own two kids. Slowly both Beth and the children realise that they have to go on with their lives and that they have been giving a second chance.
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Title: American Experience
Character: (voice)
Released: October 4, 1988
Type: TV
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
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Title: American Experience
Character: Self (voice)
Released: October 4, 1988
Type: TV
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
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Bright Lights, Big City
Title: Bright Lights, Big City
Character: Clara
Released: April 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.
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Title: The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Character: Dora
Released: May 21, 1987
Type: TV
Molly Dodd — a mid-30s, divorced woman living in New York — faces the comedy and drama of a widely changing career, difficulties of apartment living, love life and its consequences, and more.
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Title: At Mother's Request
Character: Berenice Bradshaw
Released: January 4, 1987
Type: TV
A mother forces her son to kill her father, based upon a true event in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1978.
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Resting Place
Title: Resting Place
Character: Eudora McCallister
Released: April 27, 1986
Type: Movie
A television movie set in Rockville, Georgia, in 1972. Major Kendall Laird, a Survival Assistance Officer, arrives in this sleepy little town with the body of Lieutenant Dwyte Johnson, a Vietnam war hero. It's Laird's job to help Johnson's parents bury their son. But since the dead hero was black, his parents are turned away by the white racists who maintain the town's "all-white" cemetery.
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Title: Spencer
Released: December 1, 1984
Type: TV
Spencer, later titled Under One Roof, is an American teen situation comedy broadcast on NBC for one season starting in December 1984. The show originally starred Chad Lowe as high school student Spencer Winger, Mimi Kennedy as his mother Doris Winger, and Ronny Cox as his father George Winger. Lowe left the series in 1985 after six episodes and was replaced by Ross Harris, who assumed the role of Spencer. At that time the show's title was changed from Spencer to Under One Roof; the first episode with the new title aired March 23, 1985. Cox also left the show during the retooling, his character written off as having left the family for a 23-year-old woman. Harold Gould and Frances Sternhagen were added to the cast as Spencer's maternal grandparents. Former WKRP in Cincinnati star Richard Sanders played a high school guidance counselor in the series.
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The Dining Room
Title: The Dining Room
Character: Various
Released: October 19, 1984
Type: Movie
Six actors play over 50 characters across 18 scenes from different families that overlap and intertwine in a single dining room. Set in a typical well-to-do household, the mosaic of interrelated scenes - some funny, some touching, some rueful - create an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the upper-middle-class WASP.
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Prototype
Title: Prototype
Character: Dorothy Forrester
Released: December 7, 1983
Type: Movie
An intelligent android (Michael) constructed by a research team is taken outdoors and successfully passed off as human in a trial run. When the government hears of this, they order their own set of tests in Washington. When the project leader realizes the military want the android for a soldier, he can't accept it, and he and Michael go into hiding to avoid their clutches.
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Romantic Comedy
Title: Romantic Comedy
Character: Blanche Dailey
Released: October 7, 1983
Type: Movie
Jason is in need of a collaborator to give him inspiration. Phoebe is a small-town English teacher with an urge to write. On the day Jason is being married, Jason and Phoebe meet and form a partnership.
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Independence Day
Title: Independence Day
Character: Carla Taylor
Released: January 21, 1983
Type: Movie
Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a waitress in her father's diner, yet she can't help but feel unfulfilled by a life of pouring coffee and grilling hamburgers. Mary Ann's real passion is photography, but pursuing her dream of becoming a photographer means leaving Mercury behind.
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Title: Cheers
Character: Esther Clavin
Released: September 30, 1982
Type: TV
The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there.
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Outland
Title: Outland
Character: Dr. Lazarus
Released: May 22, 1981
Type: Movie
An honest marshal in a corrupt mining colony on Io, Jupiter's sunless third moon, is determined to confront a violent drug ring even though it may cost him his life. After his wife angrily deserts him, he waits alone for the arrival of killers hired by the company to eliminate him.
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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Title: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Character: Mary Richards
Released: March 17, 1980
Type: Movie
A mysterious stranger descends on the small town of Hadleyburg to teach its deceitful residents a lesson
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Mother and Daughter: The Loving War
Title: Mother and Daughter: The Loving War
Character: Mrs. Lloyd
Released: January 25, 1980
Type: Movie
A love-hate relationship among three generations of women, spanning 30 years.
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Starting Over
Title: Starting Over
Character: Marva Potter
Released: October 5, 1979
Type: Movie
After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.
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Who'll Save Our Children?
Title: Who'll Save Our Children?
Character: Nellie Henderson
Released: December 16, 1978
Type: Movie
A childless couple provide shelter for a pair of homeless children. When they try to adopt them the natural parents appear leading to the inevitable court battle.
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Fedora
Title: Fedora
Character: Miss Balfour
Released: June 29, 1978
Type: Movie
An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star, whom he tries to lure out of retirement.
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Title: The Andros Targets
Character: Mrs. Mason
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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Enemies
Title: Enemies
Character: Paulina
Released: January 23, 1974
Type: Movie
In a sun-dappled garden in provincial Russia in 1905, some factory owners and their wives discuss the unrest among the workers. Rather than submit to a strike, they decide to close down the factory. When an owner is slain in a scuffle with a workman, the ensuing investigation uncovers the socialist fervor that is sweeping the countryside.
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Two People
Title: Two People
Character: Mrs. McCluskey
Released: March 18, 1973
Type: Movie
Evan Bonner is a deserter from the Vietnam war; he is on his way back to America to give himself up when he meets Deirdre McCluskey, a beautiful if petulant model. The two make an unlikely couple, but once in France the magic of Paris works its charm and these two vulnerable people finally find each other.
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The Rimers of Eldritch
Title: The Rimers of Eldritch
Character: Wilma Atkins
Released: November 4, 1972
Type: Movie
Lanford Wilson's prize-winning drama about life in a played-out coal town in the Midwest. Against the background of a murder trial, the people recall their lives.
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The Hospital
Title: The Hospital
Character: Mrs. Cushing
Released: December 14, 1971
Type: Movie
Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospital bed, it appears to Bock to be a case of unforgivable malpractice. Hours later, another doctor, who happens to be responsible for another case of malpractice, is found dead. Despondent, Bock finds himself drawn to Barbara, the daughter of a comatose missionary.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Wilma Atkins
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: Paulina
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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Up the Down Staircase
Title: Up the Down Staircase
Character: Charlotte Wolf, School Librarian
Released: June 28, 1967
Type: Movie
Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an administration that drowns its staff in paperwork. The following days go from bad to worse as Sylvia struggles to reach her most troubled students.
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Soldier in Love
Title: Soldier in Love
Character: Abigail
Released: April 26, 1967
Type: Movie
The story of the Churchills in the court of Queen Anne.
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Title: Profiles in Courage
Character: Miss Koeller
Released: November 8, 1964
Type: TV
Profiles in Courage is an American historical anthology series that was telecast weekly on NBC from November 8, 1964 to May 9, 1965. The series was based on the recently President John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize winning book, Profiles in Courage.
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Title: Another World
Released: May 4, 1964
Type: TV
Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC for 35 years from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. Set in the fictional town of Bay City, the show in its early years opens with announcer Bill Wolff intoning its epigram, “We do not live in this world alone, but in a thousand other worlds,” which Phillips said represented the difference between “the world of events we live in, and the world of feelings and dreams that we strive for.” Another World focused less on the conventional drama of domestic life as seen in other soap operas, and more on exotic melodrama between families of different classes and philosophies.
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The Arena
Title: The Arena
Character: Betty - Secretary
Released: April 9, 1956
Type: Movie
Arriving in Washington, a freshman senator gets an experienced advisor who warns him not to continue a heated feud with his state's senior salon, held over from his father. But later in a drunken jag, he blurts out secret evidence that can end the career of the older man.
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Title: Tony Awards
Character: Self - Winner
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: 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: The Secret Storm
Released: February 1, 1954
Type: TV
The Secret Storm is a soap opera which ran on CBS from February 1, 1954 to February 8, 1974. The series was created by Roy Winsor, who also created the long-running soap operas Search for Tomorrow and Love of Life. Gloria Monty of General Hospital fame was a longtime director of the series. Like most CBS Soap Operas of the time such as The Guiding Light and As the World Turns The Secret Storm was filmed, and later taped, in New York at the CBS Broadcast Center on West 52 Street.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Abigail
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: Mrs. McAlister
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: Love of Life
Released: September 24, 1951
Type: TV
Love of Life is an American soap opera which aired on CBS from September 24, 1951, to February 1, 1980. It was created by Roy Winsor, whose previous creation Search for Tomorrow had premiered three weeks before Love of Life, and who would go on to create The Secret Storm two and a half years later.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Mary
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Betty - Secretary
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.