Frances Sternhagen
Also Known As: Francis Sternhagen, Frances Hussey Sternhagen
Biography: Frances Hussey Sternhagen (January 13, 1930 – November 27, 2023) was an American actress. Sternhagen appeared on and off Broadway, in movies, and on TV beginning in the 1950s, won a Tony, and was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: January 13, 1930
Age: 95 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: November 27, 2023
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Misery
Overview: After an accident, acclaimed novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by a nurse who claims to be his biggest fan. Her obsession takes a dark turn when she holds him captive in her remote Colorado home and forces him to write back to life the popular literary character he killed off.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-30
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Outland
Overview: An honest marshal in a corrupt mining colony on Io, Jupiter's sunless third moon, is determined to confront a violent drug ring even though it may cost him his life. After his wife angrily deserts him, he waits alone for the arrival of killers hired by the company to eliminate him.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-22
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The Mist
Overview: After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-21
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Doc Hollywood
Overview: After leaving Washington D.C. hospital, plastic surgeon Ben Stone heads for California, where a lucrative practice in Beverly Hills awaits. After a car accident, he's sentenced to perform as the community's general practitioner.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-02
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The Dining Room
Overview: Six actors play over 50 characters across 18 scenes from different families that overlap and intertwine in a single dining room. Set in a typical well-to-do household, the mosaic of interrelated scenes - some funny, some touching, some rueful - create an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the upper-middle-class WASP.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-19
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Misery Loves Company
Overview: A documentary presenting the behind the scenes of Rob Reiner's classic "Misery", with Reiner himself, Kathy Bates, James Caan, Frances Sternhagen, writer William Goldman, Barry Sonnenfeld (the film's cinematographer) presenting their views on the film years later of its release and the impact "Misery" had in their professional lives.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Communion
Overview: A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-10
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Raising Cain
Overview: Child psychologist Carter Nix is a loving and caring family man, but under this appearance lies a dark and troubled past. Grappling with the consequences of this past on his own psyche and the influence of his returning father and violent brother Cain, Carter becomes involved in a series of murders and kidnappings. Meanwhile, his wife Jenny rekindles an old love affair, placing herself in the crosshairs of her increasingly unstable husband.
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-07
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Golden Years
Overview: When an explosion at a top-secret government lab injures an elderly janitor, no one could have expected the terrifying results. Exposure to mysterious chemicals causes him to undergo a bizarre transformation. He is slowly... incredibly... growing younger every day. Now, a ruthless CIA assassin will stop at nothing to take him prisoner and turn him into a government guinea pig. With his future on the line, the janitor goes on the run with his wife and a feisty female agent. All the while, he continues to transform... into a being with powers that are as deadly as they are unimaginable.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-16
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Up the Down Staircase
Overview: Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an administration that drowns its staff in paperwork. The following days go from bad to worse as Sylvia struggles to reach her most troubled students.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-28
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Dolphin Tale
Overview: A story centered on the friendship between a boy and a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-22
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Soldier in Love
Overview: The story of the Churchills in the court of Queen Anne.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-26
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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Overview: A mysterious stranger descends on the small town of Hadleyburg to teach its deceitful residents a lesson
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-17
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Resting Place
Overview: A television movie set in Rockville, Georgia, in 1972. Major Kendall Laird, a Survival Assistance Officer, arrives in this sleepy little town with the body of Lieutenant Dwyte Johnson, a Vietnam war hero. It's Laird's job to help Johnson's parents bury their son. But since the dead hero was black, his parents are turned away by the white racists who maintain the town's "all-white" cemetery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-27
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Prototype
Overview: An intelligent android (Michael) constructed by a research team is taken outdoors and successfully passed off as human in a trial run. When the government hears of this, they order their own set of tests in Washington. When the project leader realizes the military want the android for a soldier, he can't accept it, and he and Michael go into hiding to avoid their clutches.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-07
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Starting Over
Overview: After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-05
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Fedora
Overview: An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star, whom he tries to lure out of retirement.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-29
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Romantic Comedy
Overview: Jason is in need of a collaborator to give him inspiration. Phoebe is a small-town English teacher with an urge to write. On the day Jason is being married, Jason and Phoebe meet and form a partnership.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-07
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See You in the Morning
Overview: Three years after his divorce from his model-wife is the psychologist Larry Livingstone ready for a new commitment. He falls in love with the young widow Beth who has two children. But Beth and the children are still in mourning over their dead husband and father and Larry finds it a bit difficult to penetrate their reservations. Larry himself has to deal with his ex-wife and his love for his own two kids. Slowly both Beth and the children realise that they have to go on with their lives and that they have been giving a second chance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-14
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The Donner Party
Overview: Doomed attempt to get to California in 1846. More than just a riveting tale of death, endurance and survival. The Donner Party's nightmarish journey penetrated to the very heart of the American Dream at a crucial phase of the nation's "manifest destiny." Touching some of the most powerful social, economic and political currents of the time, this extraordinary narrative remains one of the most compelling and enduring episodes to come out of the West.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-28
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The Con
Overview: A lonely gas station attendent in Mississippi falls in love with a con woman who wants to get her hands on an inheritance he doesn't know about.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-04
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Independence Day
Overview: Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a waitress in her father's diner, yet she can't help but feel unfulfilled by a life of pouring coffee and grilling hamburgers. Mary Ann's real passion is photography, but pursuing her dream of becoming a photographer means leaving Mercury behind.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-21
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The Rimers of Eldritch
Overview: Lanford Wilson's prize-winning drama about life in a played-out coal town in the Midwest. Against the background of a murder trial, the people recall their lives.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-04
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Enemies
Overview: In a sun-dappled garden in provincial Russia in 1905, some factory owners and their wives discuss the unrest among the workers. Rather than submit to a strike, they decide to close down the factory. When an owner is slain in a scuffle with a workman, the ensuing investigation uncovers the socialist fervor that is sweeping the countryside.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-23
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And So It Goes
Overview: Nobody likes self-centered realtor Oren Little, and he prefers it that way. He's deliberately mean to anyone who crosses his path and wants nothing more than to sell one final house and retire. His life turns upside-down when his estranged son drops off a granddaughter he never knew existed. Suddenly left in charge of her and with no idea how to take care of a child, he pawns the girl off on his neighbor, Leah -- but he eventually learns how to open his heart.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-10
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Follow Your Heart
Overview: An ex-marine, in search of some defining life direction, unexpectedly faces a hurdle when his jeep breaks down in a sparsely populated Wyoming town. While waiting for parts to repair the vehicle he takes a temporary job as a rest area attendant and moves onto a ranch run by a one-legged widow with a mentally handicapped son. When an abandoned Vietnamese girl joins the group, the scene is ready for confrontation and tragedy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-02
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Highway
Overview: Jack is caught with the wife of his employer, a Vegas thug. The thug sends goons after Jack, who convinces his best friend, Pilot, to flee with him. Pilot insists that they head for Seattle, but doesn't tell Jack why. The goons learn from Pilot's drug source where the youths are headed, and they follow, hell bent on breaking Jack's feet. On the road, Jack and Pilot give a ride to Cassie, a distressed young woman. She and Jack hit it off. They pick up an aging stoner headed to Seattle for Kurt Cobain's memorial, and they help a circus sideshow family. Why is Pilot so set on Seattle, will the goons catch Jack, and is there any way the friends' competing needs can be resolved?
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-26
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Coney Island
Overview: Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of New York real estate was internationally famous. On summer Sundays, three great pleasure domes--Steeplechase, Luna Park and Dreamland--competed for the patronage of a half-million people. By day it was the world's most amazing amusement park, by night, an electric "Eden".
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-04
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Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story
Overview: When a woman learns she cannot bear children, her mother decides to be a surrogate for her.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-09
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Who'll Save Our Children?
Overview: A childless couple provide shelter for a pair of homeless children. When they try to adopt them the natural parents appear leading to the inevitable court battle.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-16
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Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Overview: A leading acting teacher who trained some of the most famous performers of the stage and screen, Sanford Meisner was a founding member of the Group Theatre. The Group Theatre, a cooperative theater ensemble, became a leading force in the theater world of the 30s. Meisner performed in many of the group’s most memorable productions.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-27
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Bright Lights, Big City
Overview: A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-01
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Two People
Overview: Evan Bonner is a deserter from the Vietnam war; he is on his way back to America to give himself up when he meets Deirdre McCluskey, a beautiful if petulant model. The two make an unlikely couple, but once in France the magic of Paris works its charm and these two vulnerable people finally find each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-18
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Sibling Rivalry
Overview: Marjorie Turner is suffocating in her marriage and day to day life. An extramarital affair with a stranger seems to be the answer until her paramour has a fatal heart attack, and turns out to be less of a stranger than she could have thought...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-26
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She Woke Up
Overview: A socialite comes out of a coma determined to identify her assailant who may be a family member with a motive to strike again.
Genres: Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-19
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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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Reunion
Overview: The undying bond between a mother and her beloved son nearly destroys the lives of an entire family. Jessie Yates (Marlo Thomas) is torn between the ghost of her son and the life she has created with her husband and family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-10
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Mother and Daughter: The Loving War
Overview: A love-hate relationship among three generations of women, spanning 30 years.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-25
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To Live Again
Overview: A loopy mother locks her teenage daughter in her room after allegedly showing signs of being crazy. Over a decade later, somebody finally investigates, removes the daughter from the mother's care, and attempts to rehabilitate the daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-08
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Vault of Horror I
Overview: A compilation of three episodes from the Tales from the Crypt series ("Carrion Death", "None but the lonely heart" and "Abra Cadaver") with some famous cast and directors.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-02
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When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
Overview: Behind the scenes documentary on the making of the film.
Genres: Documentary Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-25
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Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star
Overview: This is a lovely documentary that pays tribute to the career of star Jessica Tandy, as the filmmakers recall what it was like to work with this marvelous actress. This featurette is fairly short, but it offers fine insight, history and heart
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-04
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Julie & Julia
Overview: Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-06
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The Laramie Project
Overview: "The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard. To create the stage version of "The Laramie Project," the eight-member New York-based Tectonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, recording hours of interviews with the town's citizens over a two-year period. The film adaptation dramatizes the troupe's visit, using the actual words from the transcripts to create a portrait of a town forced to confront itself.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-10
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Curtain Call
Overview: A bachelor afraid of marriage angers his long-time girlfriend by buying a splendid townhouse just for himself, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of a famous theatrical couple, who teach him about love and commitment.
Genres: Romance Science Fiction Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-05
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Pearl
Overview: When a midwestern poet (Dan Butler) visits an elderly relative (Frances Sternhagen) to bring news of his mother’s recent death, the visit takes an unsettling turn. Adapted from a poem of the same name by former U.S. poet laureate Ted Kooser.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-01
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