Nancy Marchand
Biography: Nancy Lou Marchand was an American actress. She began her career in theater in 1951. She was most famous for her television portrayals of Margaret Pynchon on Lou Grant and Livia Soprano on The Sopranos.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 19, 1928
Deathday: June 18, 2000
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Sparkling Cyanide
1983-11-05
Sparkling Cyanide
Overview: The beautiful but unfaithful wife of a successful lawyer meets her untimely end at their anniversary dinner. After a suicide note is found soon after her death, it seems more likely that she was murdered, as all the dinner guests had good reason to want her dead.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-05
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988-12-02
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Overview: When the incompetent Lieutenant Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-02
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Ladybug Ladybug
1963-12-23
Ladybug Ladybug
Overview: Staff and students at a rural school react to a warning of an imminent nuclear attack, not knowing whether it is real or mistaken.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-23
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Me, Natalie
1969-07-13
Me, Natalie
Overview: Since she was a child, Natalie Miller has always thought she was an ugly ducking. Despite her mother's encouragement that she will grow up to be pretty, Natalie has never believed it will happen. She rents a Greenwich Village apartment from an eccentric landlady and gets a job at the Topless Bottom Club. She rides a motorcycle to work, decorates her loft with a moose head, and rides up and down a dumbwaiter to get to her apartment. There Natalie meets David an artist, and the two have a love affair before she discovers he is married.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-13
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Once Upon a Family
1980-01-22
Once Upon a Family
Overview: A father tries to make it as a single parent when his wife walks out on him and the children.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-22
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Sabrina
1995-12-15
Sabrina
Overview: Sabrina Fairchild, a chauffeur's daughter, grew up at the Long Island estate of the wealthy Larrabee family enchanted with their sparkling world of privilege and wealth, but she's especially enamored of younger son David, a charming playboy. After the once plain Sabrina returns from a sojourn in Paris transformed into a glamorous young woman, she at long last catches David's eye. In a calculated effort to manipulate David away from her and into a more financially advantageous marriage, formidable older brother Linus devises a plan to keep them apart.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-15
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Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
1992-10-09
Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
Overview: This short comedy about the love of acting features a grandmother, daughter, and granddaughter in three different eras: first backstage at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1900, then backstage at a college theater in 1956, and finally, in the make-up room of the Charlie Rose television program in 1992. One of several short pieces commissioned for the PBS television special Great Performances 20th Anniversary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-09
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Jefferson in Paris
1995-03-31
Jefferson in Paris
Overview: His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-31
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Brain Donors
1992-04-17
Brain Donors
Overview: Three manic idiots—a lawyer, a cab driver and a handyman—team up to run a ballet company to fulfil the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run the ballet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-17
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Spearfield's Daughter
1986-05-25
Spearfield's Daughter
Overview: The daughter of a leading politician tries to carve out a career in the world of international journalism.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-25
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Some Kind of Miracle
1979-01-03
Some Kind of Miracle
Overview: The story of a TV newscaster who is paralyzed in a surfing accident and how he, and his fiance, have to adjust to his being in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-03
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The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story
1980-05-25
The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story
Overview: This Olympics film, tied in with the planned 1980 games from which the United States subsequently withdrew, focuses on an American athlete whose dreams of winning the Decathlon are threatened by his romance with a pretty Russian gymnast.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-25
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Dear God
1996-11-01
Dear God
Overview: A judge gives con-man Tom Turner a choice—a jail sentence, or a year of honest work. But when he gets a job in the U.S. Post Office's dead letter office, he starts a Good Samaritan con by answering letters written to God. His seemingly virtuous work inspires his co-workers to do the same, but their good deeds are frowned upon by the postmaster general—and the cops.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-01
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Television: The First Fifty Years
1999-01-01
Television: The First Fifty Years
Overview: Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclusive interviews from television greats like Walter Cronkite, Carol Burnett, and Jay Leno.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The Hospital
1971-12-14
The Hospital
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-14
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After the Fall
1974-01-02
After the Fall
Overview: Adaptation of Arthur Miller's semi-autobiographical play about Quentin, a Jewish intellectual from New York who must reexamine his life and his troubled relationship with Holga.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-02
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The Bostonians
1984-05-01
The Bostonians
Overview: A bored lawyer and a suffragette vie for the attention of a faith healer's charismatic daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-01
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Marty
1953-05-24
Marty
Overview: Marty Pilletti is a 36-year-old butcher who lives with his mother, who is always asking him why he doesn't find a nice girl and get married. The truth is Marty is lonely and would like nothing better, but he has low self-esteem and admits to his mother that he's ugly and no one wants him. He's tired of going to the Saturday night dance with his buddies and then going home more depressed than he was when the evening started. But at one of those dances he meets Clara. They have a great deal in common but Marty will have to overcome peer pressure if he and Clara are to have a relationship.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-24
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From the Hip
1987-02-06
From the Hip
Overview: Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must reexamine his scruples after his shenanigans win him a promotion in his firm, and he must now defend a college professor who is appearantly guilty of murder.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-06
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The Bachelor Party
1957-04-09
The Bachelor Party
Overview: Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night wears on and the drink starts to tell, they become more confidential in expressing their concerns and hopes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-09
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Willa
1979-03-17
Willa
Overview: A truck-stop waitress, determined to make a better life for her young children after being abandoned by her husband, leaves hash-slinging behind her to embark on a new career as a trucker in the rig her late father used to drive.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-17
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Valley Forge
1975-12-03
Valley Forge
Overview: George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-03
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Little Women: Meg's Story
1950-12-18
Little Women: Meg's Story
Overview: Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-18
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Little Women: Jo's Story
1950-12-25
Little Women: Jo's Story
Overview: Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-25
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Mayerling
1957-02-04
Mayerling
Overview: Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf--desperate over his father's command to put away his teenage mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera--shot her to death and killed himself. The misfortune may indeed have been a murder-suicide, but perhaps it was a political assassination, or even the result of a lunatic family vendetta: scholarship is still catching up with the facts.
Genres: TV Movie Romance War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-04
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James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend
2013-12-22
James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend
Overview: In the half-hour tribute, friends and colleagues remember the three-time Emmy winner, who died June 19 at age 51. The special features clips of Gandolfini’s work as well as behind-the-scenes footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-22
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Regarding Henry
1991-07-10
Regarding Henry
Overview: Respected lawyer, Henry Turner survives a convenience-store shooting only to find he has lost his memory, and has serious speech and mobility issues. After also losing his job—where he no longer 'fits in'—his loving wife and daughter give him all their love and support.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-10
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Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
1970-05-11
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
Overview: Junie Moon is in the hospital after her face has been disfigured by her deranged boyfriend. There she meets two other patients — Arthur, an epileptic, and Warren, who is gay and uses a wheelchair. The unlikely trio of outcasts decides to move in together and manages to enjoy a series of adventures as they endure various forms of prejudice and struggle with their own issues.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-11
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Killjoy
1981-08-24
Killjoy
Overview: A romantic rivalry leads to an innocent woman's murder. Or is it a hoax crime, part of a cunning deception? At City General Hospital, two young doctors engage in a move-and-countermove rivalry over Laury Medford. It may be more than Laury's beauty that motivates the men. Her father is the hospital's chairman of the board. Marrying her would be an inside track to the chief of staff post. Meanwhile, a senior hospital staffer, who is the mother of one of the two doctors, plots to enhance her son's chances, a mysterious outsider who says he knew the dead woman tails the two men, and Laury may be more than she appears. Murder? Hoax? The answer isn't revealed till the final freeze-frame.
Genres: Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-24
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Soldier's Home
1977-01-01
Soldier's Home
Overview: Harold Krebs went off to fight in World War I, "the war to end all wars." But when he comes home, Harold finds that he doesn't fit in any more. He needs peace and quiet to figure out what has happened to him and who he has become, but his mother pressures him to rejoin society.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Reckless
1995-11-17
Reckless
Overview: On Christmas Eve, a relentlessly cheerful woman escapes from the killers hired by her husband, and embarks on a series of strange encounters.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-17
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Look Homeward, Angel
1972-01-01
Look Homeward, Angel
Overview: The life of a young man growing up in a small town in the mountains of North Carolina during the early part of the 20th century, based on Thomas Wolfe's autobiographical novel of the same name.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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A Touch of the Poet
1974-01-02
A Touch of the Poet
Overview: Cornelius "Con" Melody is an Irish tavern keeper in New England who lives in reverence of his former days as a nobleman and decorated officer in the British army during the Napoleonic wars. Impoverished now, he struts about in his uniform and plots to make money by manipulating the love of his daughter for the son of a wealthy manufacturer. His daughter sees through his façade and his chicanery and begins to plot for herself.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-02
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Grandpa, Will You Run with Me?
1983-05-01
Grandpa, Will You Run with Me?
Overview: A celebration of how the very young and the very old appreciate and enjoy each other via sketches and variety performances.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-01
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