Carmen Mathews

Jane (Bernadette Peters) has a dizzy spell while at home. As her condition does not improve, she consults a doctor who finds that she is very ill and that she has no family to help her through this very trying time. He enlists the help of a therapist (Mary Tyler Moore) who is very hesitant to become involved in this case due to the loss she suffered as a young child. As her condition deteriorates, Jane learns how to come to terms with her past as does her therapist.

The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his experiences to the memory of his parents and his belief that they were wrongfully convicted.

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.

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.

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.

A woman is left on her own to raise her two children after the unexpected death of her husband.

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.

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.

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.

Grace Caldwell, a young Pennsylvania newspaper heiress living with her widowed mother, has trouble restraining herself when it comes to the amorous attentions of young men. As word starts to spread about her behavior, Grace becomes a major source of heartache for her mother and a big source of concern to her brother.

겉으로는 패션 모델이지만 실은 고급 매춘부인 글로리아는 어릴때 받은 성적 학대로 그 상처를 가슴 속에 안고 있다. 어느날 젊고 핸섬한 실업가 웨스턴 리게트와 관계를 맺으면서 진실한 사랑을 깨닫게 된다. 리게트와 예일 대학에서 법률을 전공했지만 부호의 딸 에밀리와 결혼함으로써 부와 지위를 누리게 되자 상한 자존심을 감추기 위해 방탕한 생활을 하던 남자. 그러나 글로리아가 홧김에 장난처럼 집어 온 에밀리의 밍크코트가 그 사랑을 가로막으면서 과거를 잊고 새 출발을 하기에는, 지난 흔적이 영원히 치유될 수 없는 상처가 되어 글로리아를 괴롭힌다. 결혼신청을 하는 리게트와 함께 간 곳은 그들이 육체적인 욕망만을 민족시키던곳. 갑자기 차를 돌려 나오는 글로리아는 쫓아오는 리케트로부터 또 자신의 과거로부터 도망치다가 글로리아의 자동차는 벼랑을 구른다.

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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