Patty Duke
Also Known As: Anna Marie Duke, Patty Duke-Astin, Anna Pearce, Patty Duke Astin
Biography: Patty Duke was born Anna Marie Duke on December 14, 1946 in Elmhurst, New York, to Frances Margaret (McMahon), a cashier, and John Patrick Duke, a cab driver and handyman. She is of Irish, and one eighth German, descent. Her acting career began when she was introduced to her brother Ray Duke's managers, John and Ethel Ross. Soon after, Anna Marie became Patty, the actress. Patty started off in commercials, a few movies and some bit parts. Her first big, memorable role came when she was chosen to portray the blind and deaf Helen Keller in the Broadway version of "The Miracle Worker". The play lasted almost two years, from October 19, 1959-July 1, 1961 (Patty left in May, 1961). In 1962, The Miracle Worker (1962) became a movie and Patty won an Academy Award for best supporting actress. She was 16 years old, making her the youngest person ever to win an Oscar. She then starred in her own sitcom titled The Patty Duke Show (1963). It lasted for three seasons, and Patty was nominated for an Emmy. In 1965, she starred in the movie Billie (1965). It was a success and was the first movie ever sold to a television network. That same year, she married director Harry Falk. Their marriage lasted four years. She then starred in Valley of the Dolls (1967), which was a financial but not a critical success. In 1969, she secured a part in an independent film called Me, Natalie (1969). The film was a box-office flop, but she won her second Golden Globe Award for her performance in it. In the early 1970s, she became a mother to actors Sean Astin (with writer Michael Tell) and Mackenzie Astin (with actor John Astin). In 1976, she won her second Emmy award for the highly successful mini-series, Captains and the Kings (1976). Other successful TV films followed. She received two Emmy nominations in 1978 for A Family Upside Down (1978) and Having Babies III (1978). She then won her third Emmy in the 1979 TV movie version of The Miracle Worker (1979), this time portraying "Annie Sullivan". In 1982, she was diagnosed with manic-depressive illness. In 1984, she became President of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). In 1986, she married Michael Pierce, a drill sergeant whom she met while preparing for a role in the TV movie, A Time to Triumph (1986). In 1987, she wrote her autobiography, "Call Me Anna". In 1989, she and Mike adopted a baby, whom they named "Kevin". Her autobiography became a TV movie in 1990, with Patty playing herself, from her 30s onward. In 1992, she wrote her second book, "A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depression Illness". Anna Marie Duke had a long and successful career, winning three Emmys. She was a mother and a political advocate for issues such as the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment), AIDS and nuclear disarmament, all despite having Manic-Depression. She died on March 29, 2016, in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, of sepsis from a ruptured intestine. Patty had proved her strength as an actress and as a person.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Elmhurst, Queens, New York, United States
Birthday: December 14, 1946
Deathday: March 29, 2016
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Miracle Worker
Overview: The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen through the power of touch, the only tool they have in common, and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-23
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Valley of the Dolls
Overview: In New York City, bright but naive New Englander Anne Welles becomes a secretary at a theatrical law firm, where she falls in love with attorney Lyon Burke. Anne befriends up-and-coming singer Neely O'Hara, whose dynamic talent threatens aging star Helen Lawson and beautiful but talentless actress Jennifer North. The women experience success and failure in love and work, leading to heartbreak, addiction and tragedy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-27
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The Goddess
Overview: A woman adored by the people around her ultimately struggles to be happy with herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-24
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Prelude to a Kiss
Overview: A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-10
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Hitch-Hikers
Overview: In 1930s Mississippi, a traveling salesman picks up two hitch-hikers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Love Finds A Home
Overview: In this sequel, Lillian has been adopted and it's several years later. Annie, married and pregnant, visits her fellow doctor friend, Dr. Owen. Dr Owen desperately wants a baby, but seems unable to become pregnant. Lillian finds a love interest, an assistant to her adoptive dad, the latter has become quite overprotective.
Genres: Drama Action Western Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-11
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I Love Liberty
Overview: An all-star variety special saluting America.
Genres: Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-21
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Willy/Milly
Overview: Milly is annoyed whenever her mom tells her to behave more appropriate for a girl. She's just not interested in fancy dresses or prom dances. Some day her best friend's little brother offers her a potion which can make her deepest wish come true during a solar eclipse. She goes through with it and ends up with male genitals, additionally. So she has to decide if she wants to live as a boy or a girl. Her father, who always wanted a son, supports her in checking out life as a boy. Hence Milly changes school and starts out as Willy.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-14
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The Swarm
Overview: Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains spectacular special effects, including a train crash caused by the eponymous swarm.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-07-14
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Swiss Family Robinson
Overview: T.V. movie adaptation of The Swiss Family Robinson, sponsored by Rexall.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-12
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Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive
Overview: Jean and Shag Williams locate a newly built house and decide it's perfect for them to buy. One thing the developers forgot to tell them about was that it is built on a graveyard. Within days toilets start to flush by themselves and the garage door moves up and down by its own accord. Will Jean and Shag realize that the place may be haunted by ghosts before it's too late?
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-03
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Billie
Overview: A 16-year-old tomboy and high school athlete becomes embroiled with the lives around her boyfriend whose conservative father is running for mayor.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-13
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Happy Anniversary
Overview: An accidental slip reveals that a happily married couple were intimate before marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Fire!
Overview: The sheer terror and unearthly beauty of a raging forest fire is breathlessly captured in this compelling Irwin Allen production boasting a big-name cast and enough blazing special effects to turn night into day. Involved are a lumber mill owner (Ernest Borgnine), the widowed operator of a forest lodge (Vera Miles), a teacher on a class outing (Donna Mills), a country doctor (Lloyd Nolan), a couple (Patty Duke Astin and Alex Cord) whose shaky marriage is healed when battling the blaze brings out their better natures, and escaping convicts (Neville Brand and Erik Estrada) who use the conflagration to cover their tracks. Like Allen’s crowd-pleasers The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, Fire sizzles with suspense and excitement. Turn up the heat!
Genres: Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-08
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A Christmas Memory
Overview: A new version of Truman Capote's 1956 tale based on his own bittersweet upbringing in Alabama. The story deals with a seven-year-old who forms a special friendship with his simple, older cousin whose two sisters and bachelor brother feel he needs better influences and role models and decide to send him to military school after the Christmas holidays.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-21
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Amazing Love
Overview: Teen friends, Steve, Carrie, Cooper, and Gameboy embark on a weekend camping trip lead by their church youth group leader Stuart (Sean Astin) and his wife Beth (Erin Bethea). Joining them is an outsider Ashley, a self-involved rich kid, whose attitude causes a major commotion within the group, specifically between her and Carrie. Before it gets too out of hand though, Stuart takes this opportunity to share with the kids the incredibly powerful biblical story of Hosea; a story of immovable faith, impeccable commitment, and impervious love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-06
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Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
Overview: Even big stars need to stand in front of the director and audition for their roles, and some of the best screen tests are from the early years of legends. See some of Hollywood's top names and greatest talents in their very first appearances on celluloid. From Dustin Hoffman's 1966 stock and personality tests to Raquel Welch and James Coburn cavorting for Our Man Flint, from The Three Stooges to Rock Hudson, see stars trying to get on film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Call Me Anna
Overview: Patty Duke portrays herself in this made-for-tv biopic about her struggles as a child star growing into adulthood.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-11
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Little John
Overview: The unmarried daughter of a Texas rancher gives birth to an unwanted child. She puts the child up for adoption and moves away from home. Without her knowledge, her father took the boy and raised him. Twelve years later, she is now a successful family-court judge in L.A. Over the years, she has avoided her father and knows nothing of the child. That all changes when he decides that is time she knew her own child and heads for L.A.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-05
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Inside 'the Swarm'
Overview: A behind-the-scenes/Making of documentary short focused on Irwin Allen's all-star disaster flick The Swarm.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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You'll Like My Mother
Overview: Francesca, a pregnant Los Angeles widow, journeys to her late husband's Minnesota hometown to finally meet his mother and family. After being met with icy acceptance from her mother-in-law, then getting stranded with her in a blizzard, Francesca begins to discover terrifying secrets about her husband's family.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-13
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The Power and the Glory
Overview: Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant determined to capture him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-31
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When He Didn't Come Home
Overview: A mother (Patty Duke) goes to Chicago to try to find her son (Robert Floyd) who has suddenly quit contacting her and can't be reached.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-19
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Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
Overview: The true story of the disappearance of Sarah Porter. With no help from the police, Sarah's parents are forced to act on their own to find her. They must battle the bureaucracy of the police department while they are searching all over town for clues to Sarah's whereabouts. When the crucial clue is discovered, Shara's father confronts her kidnapper at gunpoint.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby
Overview: Baby Adrian is now all grown up and separated from his mother, wrestling with the occult influences that plague him, and trying to outrun Satan himself.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-29
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Journey to the Unknown
Overview: TV Movie consisting of two episodes of the UK TV series "Journey to the Unknown" (1968): 'Matakitas is Coming' (episode 1.3) and 'The Last Visitor' (episode 1.9).
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-15
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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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Family of Strangers
Overview: Julie must disclose her family's medical history before undergoing major surgery: when she questions her family, she discovers that she was adopted and, later, that her conception was the product of a rape.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-21
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Best Kept Secrets
Overview: Blaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic Forrest), who wants to join a special investigative unit. Forrest is denied this position on the basis of information concerning his wife. The information, which reveals a dicey extramarital affair, was culled from a department surveillance file that was supposed to have been destroyed by court order. Blaise battles through legal channels to expose the police force's illegal actions, even as she and her husband suffer the innuendoes and cold shoulders from his fellow officers.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-26
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Miracle on the Mountain: The Kincaid Family Story
Overview: A staunch professional executive and his wife coerce their rebellious teens and their older sister to take a plane trip for a weekend in the mountains. The older sister does not make it to the plane in time and the family leaves without her. Their small private plane then develops trouble and crashes away from any people. This forces the group to band together to survive the wilderness conditions, including an avalanche.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-22
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Two on a Bench
Overview: An outgoing young girl and a square stockbroker meet on a park bench in Boston and are mistaken for international spies and chased by both sides.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-02
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If Tomorrow Comes
Overview: In California, a young Caucasian girl and a Japanese-American boy defy local prejudices and secretly marry on Dec. 7, 1941, minutes before Pearl Harbor is attacked.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-07
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace
Overview: Mason defends a man he had sentenced to prison when he was an appellate-court judge. Now, 18 months after the sentencing, a new witness turns up to prove the man's innocence. Mason steps in to defend the man.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-28
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My Sweet Charlie
Overview: A pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up, abandoned house and realize they both need each other in order to survive.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-20
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The Miracle Worker
Overview: The true story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, a gripping battle to overcome impossible obstacles and the struggle to communicate. As a young girl, Helen Keller is stricken with scarlet fever. The illness leaves her blind, mute, and deaf. Sealed off from the world, Helen cannot communicate with anyone, nor anyone with her. Often frustrated and desperate, Helen flies into uncontrollable rages and tantrums that terrify her hopeless family. The gifted teacher Annie Sullivan is summoned by the family to help the girl understand the world from which she is isolated, freeing Helen Keller from her internal prison forever. Television remake of the 1962 film which also starred Patty Duke in the role of Helen Keller.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-14
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Love Lessons
Overview: An older couple are about to retire, when they find out that they're about to be parents all over again.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-22
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The Daydreamer
Overview: A young Hans Christian Andersen goes in search of knowledge in the Garden of Paradise in order to make his studies easier. Each time he falls asleep, he experiences in his dreams the different characters he would later write about in fairy tales including The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, and The Emperor's New Clothes.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-01
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The Women's Room
Overview: A wife is sick and tired of her husband's infidelities, so she leaves home and goes back to grad-school. There she meets many self-confident women who help her find her own voice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-14
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A Family Upside Down
Overview: An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-08
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Amityville: The Evil Escapes
Overview: After moving into their matriarch's gothic seaside mansion, the Evans family soon becomes host to an uninvited demonic force in the form of a mysterious lamp that once resided in the Amityville house.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-12
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Hanging by a Thread
Overview: A group of old friends on an outing re-live various traumas and tragedies via flashback whilst trapped high above a ravine in a disabled cable-car.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-08
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A Killer Among Friends
Overview: A teenage girl disappears and later turns up drowned, with a log across her back. Three years later, a former friend comes forward with some answers.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-08
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Fight for Life
Overview: Jerry Lewis plays an Ohio optometrist who has a six-year old daughter with epilepsy. He fights to get the FDA to approve a drug (at that time only available in England) for use in the U.S.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-23
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Killer on Board
Overview: The passengers on a cruise ship are seized by panic when a deadly virus begins killing off passengers and crew.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-10
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The Babysitter
Overview: Overprotective mother Liz Benedict meets 18-year-old orphan Joanna Redwine and hires her as house help and live-in companion to rambunctious daughter Tara. Liz's husband Jeff isn't too thrilled with the arrangement, and his fears soon prove justified when Joanna begins to manipulate everyone and to slowly destroy the family. Meanwhile, next-door neighbor Dr. Linquist investigates and discovers Joanna has a disturbing past.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-28
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Birdbath
Overview: During the course of one night, two strangers, a lonely waif and a prodigal poet, form an unexpected connection.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-29
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Fatal Judgement
Overview: A Massachusetts nurse (Patty Duke) is accused of exercising Fatal Judgment in this made-for-TV movie. While tending a seriously ill cancer patient, the nurse administered a generous dose of morphine. The patient died, which is why the woman is now on trial for murder.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-18
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Rosetti and Ryan: Men Who Love Women
Overview: A couple of resourceful, free-wheeling criminal attorneys with an eye for the ladies confront a no-nonsense judge while trying to clear an heiress in the slaying of her husband, although her explanation of a mysterious intruder provides them with a rather weak case.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-19
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The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin' in Brooklyn Heights
Overview: Original castmembers from the 60's series reunite as Patty fights to stop her longtime nemesis Sue Ellen from turning Brooklyn Heights High into a shopping mall.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Harvest of Fire
Overview: In a small Amish community, three barns are burnt down almost simultaneously. FBI agent Sally Russwell is sent in to investigate this possible hate crime. What she finds however is a community that little trust for outsiders or "The English" as they call them. However, in her investigations, Agent Russell makes friends with one entrepreneurial widow, Annie Beiler who has her own curiosity about this stranger. Together, Annie introduces Russell in-depth to this close knit community bearing many appealing attributes. However, as Sally's investigations continue, she discovers secrets that reveal uncomfortable truths about the religious community that are linked to the arson attacks.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-21
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The Violation of Sarah McDavid
Overview: Sarah McDavid, an idealistic young teacher, takes a job in a rough high school where she is eventually attacked and raped in her classroom after school hours and decides to buck the school system in an attempt to make schools safer for students and teachers alike, against the advice of the school's principal, Dr. Keys, who tries to gloss over the hazardous conditions and the incident itself to avoid bad publicity and decreased enrollment.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-19
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Last Wish
Overview: A woman with cancer seeks the assistance of her daughter in fulfilling her last wish - a wish to die with dignity.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-12
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By Design
Overview: Angie and Helen are in love. They live and work together designing women's evening wear in Vancouver. When Helen decides she wants to have a baby, the pair set out to find a suitable sperm donor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-08
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Absolute Strangers
Overview: A husband tries to keep his comatose wife alive by allowing doctors to terminate her pregnancy. Hearing about this, anti-abortion protesters start a legal campaign to gain legal custody of the fetus.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-14
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When the Vows Break
Overview: Patty Duke plays a divorced woman who goes to law school to defend herself in court after a chauvinistic judge awards her rotten husband their property.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-01
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She Waits
Overview: When a newlywed woman is taken to her husband's hometown to meet his mother, she is possessed by the vengeful spirit of his previous wife.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-28
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Kimberly
Overview: Four young men fall in love with the same woman. When they all find themselves attracted by Kimberly, hey vow not to fight for her affections during the season -- but then she gets pregnant and doesn't know which teammate is the father.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-28
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Please Don't Hit Me, Mom
Overview: A babysitter realizes that one of the children she looks after is being physically abused by his mother.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-19
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George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation
Overview: The first U.S. president (Barry Bostwick) and his wife (Patty Duke) endure two terms of turmoil from 1789 to 1797.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-21
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The Girl on the Edge of Town
Overview: Patty Duke Astin received an Emmy nomination for her role as a mother whose teenage daughter learns she is pregnant thus bringing back memories of her own teenage years and mistakes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-04
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The Storyteller
Overview: A television writer is troubled by accusations that a young boy's death resulted from actions the boy copied from the writer's teleplay.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-05
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Cries from the Heart
Overview: Michael, a young autistic boy who has trouble with verbalization but a real talent for technology, uses a computer to plead for help after being molested at his school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-16
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A Season for Miracles
Overview: A miracle occurs for a homeless family consisting of two wayward children and their protective aunt with the help of an angel. When a young woman's niece and nephew are threatened with foster care after her sister is hospitalized following yet another overdose, she flees with them until they land in the sleepy town of Bethlehem just before Christmas and a series of kindnesses and coincidences gives the trio a chance at happiness.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-12
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Always Remember I Love You
Overview: Just after he turns sixteen, Robert finds out that he is adopted. His parents find to their horror that he was kidnaped from his real parents. They decide to tell him about this, even though they fear they might lose him. Robert runs away to find his real parents. He finds and gets close to them, without revealing his true identity. Eventually he must decided where he belongs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-23
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4D Man
Overview: Two brothers, scientists Scott and Tony Nelson, develop an amplifier which enables a person to enter a 4th dimensional state, allowing him to pass through any object. Scott experiments on himself and discovers that each time he passes through something he ages rapidly. He begins killing people, sucking out their life energies and regaining his youth as a result.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-07
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Curse of the Black Widow
Overview: Tony Franciosa plays a detective who's on the trail of a murderer whose mutilated and predominantly male victims are found encased in silken cocoons...
Genres: Horror TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-16
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Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door
Overview: Mark Lucas and Theresa Connolly fall in love but their overbearing mothers ruin their wedding plans and possibly their future together.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-04
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To Face Her Past
Overview: Beth Bradfield (Patty Duke) is a housewife with what appears to be a stable life in an American village. One day, her 24-year-old daughter Lori (Tracey Gold), who is married to Jesse Molina (Maurice Benard) and recently gave birth to his daughter Molly (Laura and Megan Jaime), unexpectedly collapses and is hospitalized. After several tests, she is diagnosed with leukemia. Her doctor (Erick Avari) reveals to Beth that Lori is in urgent need of a donor, though her rare blood type makes finding one a difficult task.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-12
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One Woman's Courage
Overview: Because Grace's husband Craig is having an affair she starts drinking. One night Grace witnesses a man attacking a girl; she helps her to the hospital but does not want to be a witness in court because of Craig, thinking that he would lose his reputation. Only when the mother of the girl appeals to her, Grace puts herself in contact with Lt. Lawson from the police department. During the trial Grace identifies Bremer as the thug but at the same time she is being asked questions about her private life. When in the end Bremer is set free, he is out to chase Grace.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-27
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September Gun
Overview: Ben Sunday, a long-in-tooth gunfighter forms an uneasy alliance with a Catholic nun. The single-minded sister wants to erect a sanctuary for a group of Apache orphans. Ben Sunday picks an ideal spot, right in the center of town--the local saloon and "bawdy house".
Genres: TV Movie Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-08
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No Child of Mine
Overview: A woman attempts to stop her daughter signing away her down syndrome grandson for adoption. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-31
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Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage
Overview: The maiden cruise of the ocean liner Italia travels from Italy to California for the premiere of the motion picture "Valley of the Dolls."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-20
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Hard Day at Blue Nose
Overview: Backwoods officers try to uncover clues about the mysterious death of a young woman at a dude ranch.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-12
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Meet Me in St. Louis
Overview: Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-26
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Before and After
Overview: Patty Duke loses weight and discovers her husband has been cheating on her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-05
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Bigger Than the Sky
Overview: After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man stuck in a deadend life decides to audition for a small role in a local community theatre's production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Despite having no experience as an actor, he lands the lead role, which wreaks havoc upon his life.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-18
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A Time to Triumph
Overview: Construction worker, Chuck Hassan, has a heart attack and is no longer able to work and support his family. After losing their home and savings, his wife, Concetta, looks for work and decides to join the Army, to take advantage of the security and benefits. She advances quickly and eventually becomes a helicopter pilot.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-07
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Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
Overview: Directed by Kevin Burns, this documentary from Playboy Home Video examines the oftentimes tense relationship between sex, women, and popular Hollywood culture. With a particular focus given to Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Jean Harlow, and Sharon Stone, Sex at 24 Frames Per Second studies the role of female sexuality in film throughout the years. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-23
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Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure
Overview: Based on the true story of baby Jessica McClure who fell into a drain pipe in her back yard while playing. She was stuck in the pipe about 20 to 30 feet down and it took rescuers 58 hours to get her out. There was fear that if they shook the earth too much with machinery they could cause Jessica to fall further down and die.
Genres: Drama Action Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-21
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Unanswered Prayers
Overview: After his football career, Ben Beck returned to his Virginia small town and joined the family building firm. His family happiness with wife Lorrie and adolescent son Jessie is suddenly tested by the return of Ben's first high-school love, Ava Andersson, who visits from Chicago, after a failed marriage, to bury her ma. Ava seduces Ben into reliving their courtship, which she traumatically broke off without a goodbye. Jesse reacts furiously, even backseats his own football scholarship bid, rather pa's projected ambition, in favor of a writing summer course
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-07
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Having Babies III
Overview: Dr. Julie Farr presides over three impending births and cannot help but get involved in the lives of her troubled patients.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-03
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Wuthering Heights
Overview: Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation. [Originally aired on CBS's DuPont Show of the Month.]
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-09
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An American Girl
Overview: The story of a teenage girl who starts wearing a Jewish charm bracelet that she received for her birthday. She then begins to experience anti-semitism and prejudice first hand from her friends at high school and in the community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Power of the Air
Overview: An African Missionary shares with a Christian man in the United States how he feels the church in America is in great danger. The Christian is very convicted by what he hears and then sets forth a plan to reach his city with the gospel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-02
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Nightmare
Overview: A murder witness can't convince the police that the killer lives in the apartment across the courtyard from him, and he realizes he is the sniper's next victim.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-08
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Murder Without Conviction
Overview: Recently released from her vows as a nun, Christine Bennett is discovering "life on the outside." After a visit to her mentally-handicapped cousin Gene, Christine becomes embroiled in the investigation of the murder mystery surrounding James and Edward Talley, twin savant brothers accused of killing their mother on Good Friday.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-12
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Deadly Harvest
Overview: An Iron Curtain defector who has been living for years as a California winegrower learns that Soviet agents are stalking him.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-26
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Mom, the Wolfman and Me
Overview: Concerned that her feminist mom Deborah is going to stay single, Jenny Bergman plays matchmaker. She arranges a date between mom and unemployed Theo Marker, Irish Wolfhound owner, doing everything to get keep them together.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-20
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Something So Right
Overview: Joey lives with his mother. His father isn't around, he doesn't like school, he is bored and doesn't take orders from anyone. In other words he is a real little scamp. Being at one's wit's end, his mother decides to look for a "big brother" (sort of surrogate father) for Joey. At first this clumsy Arnie doesn't know how to handle Joey but after a while everything changes and not only for Joey ...
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-30
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Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
Overview: We look at why Valley of the Dolls is so beloved and appreciated, both for its "badness" and hidden merits. Valley Of The Dolls is considered either a national disaster or a national treasure.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-15
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