Katherine Helmond
Also Known As: Katherine Marie Helmond, کاترین هلموند
Biography: Katherine Marie Helmond (July 5, 1929 – February 23, 2019) was an American film, theater, and television actress, and director. Over her five decades of television acting, she was known for her starring role as ditzy matriarch Jessica Tate on the ABC prime time soap opera sitcom Soap (1977–1981) and her co-starring role as feisty mother Mona Robinson on Who's the Boss? (1984–1992). She also played Doris Sherman on Coach and Lois Whelan, the mother of Debra Barone, on Everybody Loves Raymond. She guest starred on a number of TV shows including True Blood, Strong Medicine, Providence, The Love Boat, The Bionic Woman (1976), The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bob New hart Show, Mannix, and Gunsmoke. She had supporting roles in films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot (1976), Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985), and Overboard (1987). She also voiced Lizzie in the Cars trilogy by Disney/Pixar. Some info from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Galveston, Texas, USA
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Birthday: July 05, 1929
Age: 95 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: February 23, 2019
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Brazil
Overview: Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-20
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Cars
Overview: Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. On route across the country to the big Piston Cup Championship in California to compete against two seasoned pros, McQueen gets to know the town's offbeat characters.
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-08
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Shadey
Overview: A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the thoughts he sees onto film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-31
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Getting Married
Overview: A man falls madly in love with a pretty newscaster and goes all out to win her heart and her hand in marriage before she weds another man.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-17
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Overview: Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.
Genres: Adventure Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-19
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Overboard
Overview: Heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht—and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overboard and loses her memory, Dean sees an opportunity to get even.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-16
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How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale
Overview: Three broke men try to become rich by finding rich women.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-20
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Family Plot
Overview: Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-09
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Beethoven's 5th
Overview: When Sara takes Beethoven to spend summer vacation with wacky Uncle Freddie in an old mining town, the mischievous canine "digs up" the missing clue to a legendary hidden fortune of Rita and Moe Selig. Now everybody wants to be the dog's best friend as his discovery unleashes a frenzy of treasure hunting among the community's cast of kooky creatures. With help from Uncle Freddie and Garrett (a friend or maybe more), Sara and Beethoven try to help uncover a secret that has been in the crazy little town for years.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-02
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The Elvira Show
Overview: Filmed for CBS in 1993, this unaired pilot features the witch Elvira, her aunt, and their pet cat welcoming a long-lost niece into their new Kansas home and contending with a couple of overzealous cops.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Time Bandits
Overview: Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.
Genres: Family Fantasy Science Fiction Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-13
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Mr. St. Nick
Overview: King Nicholas XX is ready to retire and pass the throne to his son, Nick St. Nicholas. But he is a no-show, preferring his lavish seaside lifestyle and sexy girlfriend.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-17
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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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The Hindenburg
Overview: Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.
Genres: History Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-25
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Lady in White
Overview: Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago. Shortly afterward he finds himself stalked by the killer and is soon drawn to an old house where a mysterious Lady In White lives. As he discovers the secret of the woman he soon finds that the killer may be someone close to him.
Genres: Mystery Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-22
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Wine of Morning
Overview: A story of bloodshed and shipwreck, of intrigue and murder, of love and redemption. The film traces the life of Joel, a promising young man who turns outlaw to free his people from Roman tyranny. As "Barabbas," Joel becomes the murderer and robber chosen by the mob to be released in place of Christ.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-30
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A Grandpa for Christmas
Overview: An old-time movie-star singer/ hoofer rebonds with his estranged daughter and 9-year-old granddaughter.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-24
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Christmas Snow
Overview: A shop owner who is being evicted at Christmas rescues her Scrooge-like landlord from an accident.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-20
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Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker
Overview: A rebellious 17-year-old girl ignores parental advice and joins her friends as a beach-bound regular on the local hitchhiking circuit, being picked up, ultimately, by a homicidal maniac.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-21
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Collaborator
Overview: A playwright whose marriage and career are in a free fall has an explosive run-in with his former neighbor, a right-wing ex-con.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-08
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Time Travel Mater
Overview: When a clock lands on Mater's engine, he travels back in time to 1909 where he meets Stanley, an ambitious young car on his way to California. With the help of Lightning McQueen, Mater alters history by convincing Stanley to stay and build Radiator Springs. Stanley meets Lizzie and they commemorate the opening of the new courthouse with their wedding.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-12
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The Flight of the Dove
Overview: An explosives expert fleeing his past and a beautiful spy trading sex for secrets find themselves in love and fighting the spy ring out to kill them.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-10
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Ms. Scrooge
Overview: Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by the ghost of her dead partner Maude Marley and then by other spirits who remind her of her happy past and chronicle the bitterness and greed that have taken over her life. At last, she is shown her own death and funeral. No one is there to mourn her. This revelation shocks her into opening her heart and her checkbook.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-10
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Inside Monkey Zetterland
Overview: An off beat comedy about an out of work screen writing/artist that complains about being too cool, too talented and way too gay.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-12
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The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
Overview: A young doctor fresh out of medical school takes a job at a big-city hospital, and on his first day finds himself making life-and-death decisions.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-13
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The Family Nobody Wanted
Overview: A minister and his wife take in poor and troubled children that nobody else wants and soon they find themselves with a family of a dozen kids.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-19
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Locusts
Overview: A swarm of locusts appears on the horizon near a Midwestern town and the inhabitants must find a way to destroy or divert them before the insects devour the area's valuable crops
Genres: Drama TV Movie Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-09
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Scout's Honor
Overview: Gary Coleman stars as little Joey Seymour, a clever but lonely orphan shuffled from one foster home to the next, who is also determined to be the best Cub Scout ever. Pearl Bartlett (Katherine Helmond) is a hard-working executive who dislikes children, but she must take on a troop of Cub Scouts and become a den mother to save her job. Somewhere along the way, Joey teaches Pearl the true meaning of caring.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-30
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Little Ladies of the Night
Overview: The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Lyle York was murdered working the streets a few years ago. Since his reform, he has teamed with Officer Russ Garfield to clear the streets of underage girls working in prostitution. Pretty, young runaway Hailey Atkins has been turned out. Down deep she wants to go straight but has had great difficulty escaping her pimp and doesn't even have a place to go. York and Garfield go out on a limb to try and help.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-16
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Dr. Max
Overview: A small-town doctor neglects his family to look after his patients.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-04
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Baby Blue Marine
Overview: A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Marine Raider, who leaves him to hitch-hike home in an undeserved hero's uniform. A small Colorado town takes him in, treating him like the hero he appears to be.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-05
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The Legend of Lizzie Borden
Overview: A dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-10
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Cage Without a Key
Overview: A high school girl who needs a ride accepts one from a boy she doesn't know. He then forces her to participate in a robbery, in which a clerk is killed. They are soon caught, and the girl, despite her protestations of innocence, is convicted of first-degree murder and sent to prison. Once she gets there, she finds out that her troubles are just beginning.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-14
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Grass Roots
Overview: This sequel to the 1983 miniseries, "Chiefs," continues the saga of the Lee family with Will Lee, an ambitious Georgia lawyer running for the U.S. Senate at the same time he is forced by a local judge to defend a young man in a murder trial. On top of this, he becomes the target of an assassin hired by a white-supremacist organization.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-24
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When Will I Be Loved?
Overview: Three disillusioned wives who are contemplating divorce compare notes on their stormy marriages.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-03
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Cars 2
Overview: Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rocky as Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-11
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Frank and Ava
Overview: The wild and tempestuous relationship between icons Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-07
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Amore!
Overview: Saul Schwartz, a married successful businessman, is bored with his life and decides he has had enough. So he gets a divorce, quits his job, and goes off to pursue his dream, in Hollywood to be a movie star. Only becoming a movie star isn't as easy as he thought. Nobody wants an overweight, 50 year old, New Yorker who looks like a lawyer. He's going to have to make a few adjustments.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-01
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Save the Dog!
Overview: Becky wants to become an actress. After an audition for a dog food ad she has best chances to get the part - but the day after her dog Petey becomes very ill. She has to come up with $700 until 5 pm for the operation - else Petey will be put to death! Lacking only $70, she takes a job as messenger. She needs only one delivery, but her car breaks down and bad luck delays her again, and again, and again...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-19
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Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story
Overview: The story of singer Rosemary Clooney's rise to fame, her marriage to Jose Ferrer, and her nervous breakdown.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-08
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Living in Fear
Overview: A man returning to his childhood home for the reading of a will is met with hostility. Do the townsfolk know more about him than his new wife?
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-31
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The Perfect Nanny
Overview: Upon her release from a mental institution where she was recovering from a suicide attempt, Andrea McBride applies for the position of nanny for a handsome, wealthy surgeon, Dr. James Lewis, a widower with two children. Another applicant is hired, but she dies in an accident and Andrea gets the job after all, excelling and quickly becoming part of the family. Then Lewis' girlfriend, Dr. Julia Bruning, is mysteriously killed. When his boss tells Lewis of impending cutbacks at the hospital, the boss is murdered. Meanwhile, Lewis' teenaged daughter Fawn begins piecing together the history of the new nanny and discovers that Andrea may be responsible for these and other killings - but Fawn had better hurry, because the slayings are getting closer to home
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-16
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Jack and the Beanstalk
Overview: Imaginative and creative Jack seeks adventure while trying to provide for himself and his mother. Will he ever solve the mystery of how his father died?
Genres: Fantasy Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-08
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James Dean
Overview: A dramatization of the story of legendary movie actor James Dean. The film's writer, William Bast, had roomed with Dean in the early '50s, when both were trying to break into films as actors, and was his lover for a time.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-17
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Cars 3
Overview: Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in the game, he will need the help of an eager young race technician with her own plan to win, inspiration from the late Fabulous Hudson Hornet, and a few unexpected turns. Proving that #95 isn't through yet will test the heart of a champion on Piston Cup Racing’s biggest stage!
Genres: Family Comedy Adventure Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-15
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Wanted: The Sundance Woman
Overview: Katharine Ross repeats her portrayal of Etta Place (from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid") in this adventure of the fugitive who, alone and desperate following the deaths of Butch and Sundance, seeks help from Pancho Villa in exchange for guns and ammunition.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-01
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Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales
Overview: Mater the tow truck travels from country to country as he retells his infamous but unbelievable stories.
Genres: Family Comedy Adventure Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-31
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The Radiator Springs 500½
Overview: A 'leisurely drive' planned in honor of Radiator Springs’ town founder, Stanley, turns precarious as Baja pros descend on the town and challenge Lightning McQueen to an off-road race. Meanwhile, the townsfolk, led by a Stanley-costumed Mater, enjoy the planned 'leisurely drive' to retrace Stanley’s original frontier route. Thinking they’re on the same course, a wrong turn sends McQueen and the Baja pros on a treacherously wild bid for survival. The misunderstanding leaves the racing professionals in awe of the 'legend' of Stanley: the Original Off-Road Racer.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-20
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What Is Brazil?
Overview: What is this film called Brazil? Find out in this witty documentary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-16
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Mater and the Ghostlight
Overview: Mater, the rusty but trusty tow truck from Cars, spends a day in Radiator Springs playing scary pranks on his fellow townsfolk. That night at Flo's V8 Café, the Sheriff tells the story of the legend of the Ghostlight, and as everyone races home Mater is left alone primed for a good old-fashioned scare.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-27
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Overview: In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In between the chapters of her life, the present-day struggles of Blacks in Bayonne, urged on by Jimmy, are dramatized.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-31
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The Perfect Tribute
Overview: A boy risks life and limb to travel across the war-torn southern states of America during the height of hostilities in the Civil War, hoping to visit his wounded brother in a field hospital on the other side of the country. His accidental meeting with Abraham Lincoln helps the disheartened president understand just how important the Gettysburg Address really is.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-21
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Larry
Overview: A man who has been confined from early childhood to a dubiously run home for the mentally challenged is transferred to a state mental hospital when the home is shut down. Staff discover that, despite outward appearances, the man was wrongly confined and is of average intelligence.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-23
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For Lovers Only
Overview: A man, his daughter, and son-in-law run a honeymoon resort in the Poconos.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-15
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Liza’s Pioneer Diary
Overview: The story of a gentle, unsure young woman who grows in maturity and self-reliance as she travels across the American plains in 1848 in a wagon train with her young husband and his family.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-17
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Deception: A Mother’s Secret
Overview: When a widower tries to adopt his wife’s son he’s shocked by what he discovers about her past.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-24
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