Shirley Slater

Movies

Why Would I Lie?
Warden
Cletus is a compulsive liar. He prefers the term 'fabrication' to lie though. When Cletus becomes a social worker he's assigned the case of a boy called Jorge (with a 'J') who was taken from his mother. Cletus sets out to reunite Jorge with his mother, but to do so he has to fabricate many a story to keep Jorge from being adopted. In search of the mother, Cletus meets and falls in love with a women's advice councillor.
Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger
Mrs. Thomas
The dramatized biography of Margaret Sanger, the crusader who founded America's first birth control clinic during World War I and was tried in court under obscenity laws.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Joey's Mother
The story of a family living in a New York City slum in 1912, headed by a loving but alcoholic father and a strong-willed mother.