Mary Jackson
Nascimento : 1910-11-22, Milford, Michigan, USA
Morte : 2005-12-10
História
One of those strikingly familiar matrons you just can't place, character actress Mary Jackson is probably best known for her recurring role as one of the delightfully eccentric bootlegging sisters, "Miss Emily" Baldwin, on the series The Waltons (1971) that ran for nine seasons. She was born November 22, 1910 in rural Milford, Michigan, and earned a bachelor's degree from West Michigan University in 1932. A Depression-era school teacher for one year before pursuing her interest in theater, she returned to college (this time Michigan State University) in a fine arts program. She started out on the Chicago stage and in summer stock before migrating to the larger stages in New York and Los Angeles.
Film and TV roles did not come her way until well into middle age. Guesting on such TV shows as "The Andy Griffith Show," "The Twilight Zone," "My Three Sons," "Hazel," "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Barnaby Jones" and "Highway to Heaven," she usually appeared as ladylike small-town citizens. She was also part of the ensemble in Peter Bogdanovich's first low-budget film thriller Targets (1968), which was Boris Karloff's last feature. In the 70s she started gathering up character bits here and there, such as her nuns in the all-star epic Airport (1970) and the horror Audrey Rose (1977). A variety of pleasant, maternal parts came her way, including Lynn Carlin's mother in the Blake Edwards' western Wild Rovers (1971) and Jane Fonda's in the comedy caper Fun with Dick and Jane (1977). She supported Fonda again in the Vietnam-era drama Coming Home (1978), was among the cast in the cultish Big Top Pee-wee (1988) and had a noticeable role in Steve Martin's Leap of Faith (1992).
As for "The Waltons" success, character actress Dorothy Stickney played the part of Emily in the initial TV pilot along with Josephine Hutchinson as older sister Mamie. When the series came to fruition, Mary and actress Helen Kleeb, another one of those "I've seen her before" character faces, took over the spinster roles. Both she and Kleeb continued their sister act periodically in several Walton "reunion" TV-movies, which included assorted weddings and holiday gatherings. Both ladies made their final TV appearances in A Walton Easter (1997). Kleeb died of natural causes in 2003 at age 96. Mary passed away two years later at age 95 of complications from Parkinson's disease. - IMDb Mini Biography
Carrie
Fazendeiro branco de meia idade descobre, quando da morte de sua mãe, ser filho, na verdade, de criada negra. Nos diários de sua mae adotiva, encontra outra grande surpresa: ele tem um meio irmão negro, que mora em Chigaco, e que decide conhecer.
Cleaning Lady
While on a stakeout, hardboiled cop Eddie Boone gets injected with a dangerous new designer drug causing nightmarish side effects. As he searches for his missing partner, Eddie discovers the urban streets full of mutants, monsters, and mayhem orchestrated by the mastermind behind the lethal narcotic.
Emily Baldwin
The fourth Waltons reunion TV movie is set in the 1960s , with John-Boy still living in New York, trying to persuade his fiancée to marry him. Meanwhile, Ben and Cindy's daughter Virginia has died, and Cindy is finding life very lonely without her. She tells Ben that she would dearly love to adopt another baby, but Ben feels that it is not a good idea. Ben argues with his father about buying a new truck for their lumber company, but John keeps insisting that they can't afford it. Elsewhere, Erin now has three children and is separated from Paul. Her decision to start seeing another man causes some indignation among the other Walton family members. Ike and Corabeth become grandparents when Aimee has a daughter, while Elizabeth returns from Europe and reunites with Drew, her old beau.
Emma Schlarp
Jonas Nightengale (Steve Martin) é um falso pregador de fé que usa todos seus truques com a Bíblia na mão de forma a atrair as pessoas para seus cultos. Ele, a namorada Jane (Debra Winger) e sua equipe rodam os Estados Unidos parando nas cidades para montar seu "espetáculo". Quando um dos caminhões quebra em uma pequena cidade, Jonas aceita o desafio de fazer dinheiro nela. Desta forma, passa a seduzir a garçonete Marva (Lolita Davidovitch) e faz com que Jane conquiste Will Braverman (Liam Neeson), o xerife local, que está disposto a provar que Jonas é na verdade uma fraude.
Mrs. Clelia
O tenente Kinderman e o Padre Dyer tentam lidar com a morte de seu amigo em comum, o Padre Damien, porém, um assassino está a solta. O tenente da polícia investiga uma série de assassinatos envolvendo tortura, decapitação e profanação religiosa. Kinderman descobre que as morte têm semelhança com as praticadas pelo serial killer Gemini, um homem que morreu há quinze anos.
Crawldaddy
Crawldaddy and her two kids are travelling across the country on the search for victims. The dysfunctional family has the disturbing habit of skinning people alive before killing them. When their van breaks down, they are put up by a friendly couple.
The chilling true story of the "two of a kind" killing cousins, Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers.
Mrs. Dill
Eu moro em uma fazenda, onde sirvo panquecas no café da manhã para os animais e trabalho em experimentos botânicos supersecretos com meu porquinho de estimação, o Vance. Um dia, uma tempestade traz um circo para a minha fazenda! Eles têm animais selvagens e outras coisas muito bacanas - principalmente a trapezista Gina. Ela é a garota mais bonita que já vi na minha vida! É também a garota mais bonita que já beijei na vida! É por isso que a minha noiva, Winnie, fica tão brava. Cá entre nós, um tórrido triângulo amoroso é um prato cheio para qualquer um! No final, tudo acaba bem, e eu até mesmo me torno atração de circo! Serragem, brilho e emoção. Espero que se divirtam!
Esther Lovell-Mingott
A maid has left a huge inheritance. She moves in her low-class family, upsetting the relatives of the deceased. They plot to get rid of the entire clan of the Munceys.
Mrs. McDaniel
A series of vignettes based upon an imaginative girl's unique outlook on her community.
Emily Baldwin
Most of the Waltons have split up in the days approaching Thanksgiving 1947. But most of the family begins to arrive at Walton's Mountain begging with John-Boy recovering from a case of writers block in New York followed by Jason now a struggling musician as well as John Walton whom tries to get everyone together for the special event for Elizabeth, while newlyweds Erin and Paul plan to move out of the Walton homestead.
Frances
Prisioneiro da Guerra do Vietnã volta para a sociedade americana e encontra sua situação financeira totalmente mudada. Resolve então entrar para o crime organizado.
Eddy Frazer
Bob Frazer is a prominent attorney who compulsively tries to make amends with his younger, less polished brother Russ who runs the family business and harbors the guilt for their father's recent death.
Emily Baldwin
Erin Walton is considering marrying her boyfriend Paul but her old boyfriend Ashley, who left for the war and married someone else, lived through his wife's death and would like to get Erin back, but Paul is not going to give her up so easily. Also Mary Ellen's boyfriend Jonesy who's a veterinarian is trying to establish a practice but everybody doesn't think he is competent. And Ben who has been minding the lumber business while their father's with their ailing mother in Arizona is having some problems and everybody's worried that he's digging himself a hole that he might not get out of.
Rose
A college professor is recruited by an undercover cop to pose as a bag lady to track down a drug connection following the brutal killing of a skid row crone.
Grandmother Mary
A former call-girl who has left the profession behind to pursue a college career is recruited by the police to turn one more trick in order to trap the person laundering syndicate money.
Edna Miller
When aging newspaper Editor Frank Miller is fired after decades of service and replaced by a computer, he cannot take this fate quietly. Frank becomes enraged and starts writing letters to his son, Richard, expressing his fury.
Fleta Wilson
Em 1968, Bob Hyde (Bruce Dern), um oficial do exército americano, embarca para o Vietnã. Sally (Jane Fonda), sua mulher, vai trabalhar em um hospital de veteranos e lá se apaixona por Luke Martin (Jon Voight), um soldado que ficou paraplégico na guerra do Vietnã. A trama se desenvolve até que, quando a verdade é revelada, as conseqüências se tornam dramáticas para todos os envolvidos.
Mother Veronica
Um estranho tenta convencer um feliz casal de que a filha deles é na verdade a sua filha reencarnada.
Jane's Mother
Dick and Jane formam o casal de vida tranquila. Acabaram de construir a piscina da casa e são felizes por isso. Mas Dick inesperadamente perde o emprego. Endividados e sem ter como esconder a condição dos vizinhos, os dois decidem se tornar ladrões.
Miss Moran
Drama about students at a girls' school, their boyfriends, and an unexpected pregnancy.
Louise
Advogado Stephen Blume, especializado em divórcios, vive uma situação paradoxal em que, tendo o seu próprio casamento terminado, ainda é apaixonado por sua ex-esposa.
Mrs. Evans
Bickford, chega na cidade de Texas Dime Box e assume uma variedade de trabalhos braçais. Ele é ajudado por Reese e sua esposa, Molly. Somente com a chegada da ex-namorada Janet descobre-se que Bickford é realmente o famoso ladrão de trem Kid Blue.
Evelyn Smith
College student Regina comes back to her room from class one day to discover she's won a getaway vacation at the quiet Red Wolf Inn. Before she can even call her parents to let them know where she'll be, the lodge owners arrange her transport and she soon finds herself with two other young women as guests of a kindly old couple. The place is beautiful and the food is fantastic, but something just doesn't seem right. One of the guests has suddenly vanished, and the hosts are certainly reluctant to have anyone poking around the meat locker. Still, the barbecued ribs are delicious, so what's there to complain about?
Latin Teacher
On the day before she retires, a teacher discovers that a student she had flunked ten years previously is out to kill her.
Sada's Mother
Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy. Post is young and rambunctious and ambitious for a better life than wrangling cows. When one of their fellow cowboys is killed in a corral accident, Post suggests a way into a better life for himself and his friend: robbing a bank. Bodine reluctantly joins in the plan and the two contrive to rob the local bank. They make good their escape initially, but Walt Buckman and his two sons, John and Paul, are incensed at this betrayal by their own trusted employees. John and Paul set out to bring Bodine and Post to justice.
Felice
Durante uma forte nevasca que ameaça fechar o funcionamento de um aeroporto, Mel Bakersfeld (Burt Lancaster), o gerente encarregado, deve se virar para lidar com uma ameaça de um psicopata em explodir um avião.
Charlotte Thompson
Byron Orlock, veterano ator de filmes de terror, decide se aposentar, pois acredita que seus filmes não assustam mais como outrora. Sua derradeira aparição pública será na estreia de seu último filme, num drive-in. Lá ele encontrará Bobby Thompson, um jovem aparentemente comum que após matar a mãe e a esposa saiu pelas ruas atirando ao acaso.