Jessica Rains
Also Known As: Jennifer Rains, Jessica Raines
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthday: January 24, 1938
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Patricia Neal Story
Overview: The dramatic account of actress Patricia Neal's miraculous recovery from a near-fatal stroke in 1966 with the help of her then-husband, author Roald Dahl, and their close friend, veteran actress Mildred Dunnock.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-08
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Little Miss Marker
Overview: Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in the 1930s. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his sudden love for a woman also involved in gambling operations.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-21
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F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
Overview: The story of author F. Scott Fitzgerald's two stays in Hollywood to write for films, once in 1927 at the height of his acclaim, and again in 1937 when he arrived with little money, enormous expenses and an ill wife.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-17
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Islands in the Stream
Overview: An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-09
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Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed!
Overview: A documentary from Universal about the movie "The Invisible Man" (1933) directed by James Whale.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-29
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Scream, Pretty Peggy
Overview: A sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother and his supposedly insane sister, both of whom live in the old family mansion with him.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-24
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Sex and the Married Woman
Overview: A suburban housewife writes a novel based on her neighbors' sex lives. It becomes a runaway best seller, but causes no end of trouble in her marriage and her relationships with her neighbors.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-13
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Never Con a Killer
Overview: Pilot to the short-lived TV series "The Feather and Father Gang" has Detective Feather Danton and her con-man father Harry teaming up to outwit Runyonesque horseplayer E.J. Valerian.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-13
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Butterflies Are Free
Overview: Striving to be independent, the blind but determined Don Baker moves away from his overprotective mother. After settling into his new San Francisco digs, Don meets kooky neighbor Jill Tanner. Don's quick wit and good looks disarm the free-spirited Jill, and before long they're more than just friends. Will Mrs. Baker's incessant meddling destroy Don and Jill's budding relationship?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-06
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Murder by Natural Causes
Overview: An elaborate mystery involving a famous mentalist, his unfaithful wife who is trying to literally scare him to death, the best friend of the family, and the wife's ham-actor lover -- not only an intriguing who- (or whether) dunit, but also a literate, adult dramatic puzzle with an endless series of twists.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-17
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Stand Up and Be Counted
Overview: Sheila is a newspaper reporter who returns to her home town in order to write an article about the progress of the liberation of the women. Arriving at the town she is very surprised to see that her sister and also her mother agree very much with the feministic arguments.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-01
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Kotch
Overview: When retired salesman Joseph Kotcher begins to feel pressure to move out of the house he shares with the family of his son, he opts to embark on a road trip instead of settling in a retirement home. Befriending Erica, a young pregnant woman and his grandson's former nanny, Kotch begins to finds new meaning in life as he helps her prepare to welcome her baby into the world.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-17
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A Summer Without Boys
Overview: A middle-aged woman going through a divorce takes her daughter to a summer lodge where the girl experiences a powerful awakening to life's challenges.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-05
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Portnoy's Complaint
Overview: During a session with his psychoanalyst, Alexander Portnoy rants about everything that is bothering him. His complaints include his childhood and his family with an emphasis on his mother, his sexual fantasies and the problems that he has with women, and his obsessive feelings about his Judaism.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-19
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Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
Overview: The life and times of the flamboyant showman who built his legendary Follies around beautiful women -- as told by the women in his life.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-21
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Sleeper
Overview: Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-17
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Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
Overview: Finding herself unable to cope with the divorce of her parents and the stress of daily life, 15-year-old Sarah Travis starts drinking in secret. At first, alcohol provides comfort and release. Then it sends her life spiraling out of control.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-11
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The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked
Overview: A documentary from Universal about their Phantom of the Opera movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Honky Tonk Freeway
Overview: Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not to put an exit into the town. The people of Ticlaw, leaded by its Mayor, will do anything in order to convince the governor to alter the project.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-21
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Shirts/Skins
Overview: Six businessmen who have a weekly after-hours basketball game get caught up in a bet about a hide-and-seek contest.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-09
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Class of '63
Overview: A jealous husband uses a college reunion to gauge whether or not his wife is still in love with her old flame.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-14
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Passions
Overview: A man with a wife and daughter also has a son with another woman. When he dies this little secret is revealed to the wife. She then sets out to make her and her son suffer by trying to throw them out of the house he bought for them but now it legally belongs to his wife. And at the same time, wanting to ensure her son's future, she sues his estate for her son's education fund. While they are butting heads, they both discover that they were both deceived by him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-01
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