Carmen Mathews
Nacimiento : 1914-05-08, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Muerte : 1995-08-31
Jane (Bernadette Peters) tiene un mareo mientras está en casa. A medida que su condición no mejora, se consulta a un médico que se da cuenta de que está muy enferma y que no tiene la familia para ayudarla a superar este momento muy difícil. Ella cuenta con la ayuda de un terapeuta (Mary Tyler Moore), que es muy reticente a involucrarse en este caso debido a la pérdida que sufrió cuando era niña. A medida que su condición se deteriora, Jane aprende a llegar a un acuerdo con su pasado, al igual que su terapeuta.
Daniel es hijo de Paul y Rochelle Isaacson, que fueron ejecutados en los Estados Unidos, 1950, acusados de ser espías soviéticos. En los años 60, Daniel, al que la vida de sus padres ha marcado profundamente, milita en el movimiento pacifista.
Madame Jeanette
Based on the turbulent life of the temperamental French painter, Paul Gauguin, and his compulsive search for creative freedom which caused him to abandon his wife and five children in Paris for a life of contentment in Tahiti.
Minna Ellsworth
Michael Stone is a rising company executive who decides to chuck his career and marriage to fulfill a fantasy to be a member of the U.S. Olympic bobsled team and partake in the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid.
Miss Cumberland
A California rancher hires a private detective to deliver the rancher's long-lost daughter to him. However, several people, including the rancher's new wife, his foreman and a crooked sheriff, don't want the girl--who would inherit the rancher's large spread if he died--to make it to the ranch alive.
Carmen
A woman is left on her own to raise her two children after the unexpected death of her husband.
Mrs. Rita Boatwright
The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, the wife and mother, Rebecca Morgan, sends the oldest son, who is about 11 years old, to visit his father at the camp. The trip becomes something of an odyssey for the boy. During the journey he stays a little while with a dedicated Black schoolteacher.
A small-town district attorney is saddled with several major investigations, including a gambler's murder and a possible insurance scam.
Abigail Booth
An alcoholic drifter decides to run for sheriff in a small town. However, in order to get elected, he must find out who killed a visiting preacher.
Mrs. Springer
Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom comes home one day from his dead-end job to find his pregnant wife Janice asleep, splayed in front of the TV, highball glass in hand. After a moment's contemplation, he decides to leave. Taking his coat and car keys, he's off and running on a rambling, aimless journey.
Emily Caldwell
Grace Caldwell ha estado rodeada de hombres durante toda su existencia, lo que ha puesto en entredicho su situación social y su prestigio. Este hecho a ella no le había influido nunca. Sin embargo, cuando Sidney Tate le pide la mano para casarse, se siente atrapada por su pasado. Aunque le cuenta a su amado toda la verdad, éste insiste en casarse con ella. Ella debatirá entre perder su libertad o seguir con la vida que siempre le gustó llevar, libre y sin ataduras.
Mrs. Jescott (uncredited)
Gloria Wandrous, una modelo de lujo de Nueva York, de moral un tanto dudosa, se despierta una mañana en la lujosa casa del millonario Weston Liggett con un sobre que contiene 250 dólares. Se siente tan humillada que decide no volver a verlo, pero su amor es tan fuerte que acaba aceptando una nueva cita.
Dolly Bloomer
In 1956, BLOOMER GIRL was presented in a live television production starring the magnificent Barbara Cook, whose star was then on the rise, with leading roles in CANDIDE and THE MUSIC MAN still in her future. A solid success when it opened on Broadway in 1944, BLOOMER GIRL boasts a glorious score by the legendary team of Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg (THE WIZARD OF OZ). The book by Fred Saidy is set at the brink of the Civil War and addresses issues of women's equality (priorities were the right to vote and to wear bloomers, a liberating alternative to hoop skirts) and racial equality.
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