Eileen Heckart
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Biography: Eileen Heckart was an American actress of stage, screen, and television. Born Anna Eileen Herbert, her career spanned nearly 60 years. She first became known for her role as schoolteacher Rosemary Sydney in the original 1953 cast of William Inge's play Picnic on Broadway. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as the overprotective mother of a blind adult son in Butterflies Are Free, a role she originated on Broadway before playing it in the film. She often played mothers, including Rocky Graziano's mother in Somebody Up There Likes Me; the mother of a murdered child in The Bad Seed; the elderly mother of an estranged son in the PBS production of the one-act play Save Me a Place at Forest Law; the overbearing mother of the detective portrayed by George Segal in No Way to Treat a Lady; the mother of reporter Jack Stein on the 1990s television sitcom Love & War; the mother of two separate characters on the daytime soap opera One Life to Live in the 1980s and 1990s; and the meddling mother of a jilted wife (played by Diane Keaton) in The First Wives Club, her last film role. She also had a recurring role on the 1970s sitcom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, as Mary's Aunt Flo Meredith, a famous woman reporter, which she repeated on the subsequent spin-off series, Lou Grant. In addition to her Academy Award, she also won two Emmy Awards for Save Me a Place at Forest Lawn and Love & War, and a Golden Globe Award for The Bad Seed. She also received a special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in 2000, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She made her final acting appearance in 2000 at age 80 in an off-Broadway production, The Waverly Gallery, in which she played the leading role of an elderly grandmother with Alzheimer's disease. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eileen Heckart, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Birthday: March 29, 1919
Deathday: December 31, 2001
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Gender: Female
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Heartbreak Ridge
Overview: A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-05
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The First Wives Club
Overview: After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts - in the wallet!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-20
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Suddenly, Love
Overview: Young lovers — she's a child of the ghetto, determined to escape her alcoholic, bickering parents; he's a socially prominent attorney with a long-standing health problem — attempt to defy every obstacle to their romance and ultimate marriage.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-04
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Bus Stop
Overview: Cowboys Beauregard Decker and Virgil Blessing attend a rodeo in Phoenix, where Decker falls in love with beautiful cafe singer Cherie. He wants to take Cherie back to his native Montana and marry her, but she dreams of traveling to Hollywood and becoming famous. When she resists his advances, Decker forces Cherie onto the bus back to Montana with him, but, when the bus makes an unscheduled stop due to bad weather, the tables are turned.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-31
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Somebody Up There Likes Me
Overview: The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-04
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Burnt Offerings
Overview: A couple and their 12-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer. Things start acting strange almost immediately. It seems that every time someone gets hurt on the grounds, the beat-up house seems to repair itself.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-18
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The Bad Seed
Overview: Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-12
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No Way to Treat a Lady
Overview: Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-20
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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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Heller in Pink Tights
Overview: Nineteenth century Wyoming: the wild West. Mild-mannered Tom Healy has a two-wagon theater troupe hounded by creditors because Angela, his leading lady and the object of his affection, constantly buys clothes. In Cheyenne, they meet with applause, so they hope to stay awhile: the theater owner likes Angela, and she keeps him on a string. She's also the object of the attentions of Mabry, a gunslinger who's owed money by the richest man in Bonanza.
Genres: Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-01
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The Hiding Place
Overview: The Hiding Place is an account of a Dutch family who risk their lives by offering a safe haven for Jews during World War II
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-04
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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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Zandy's Bride
Overview: Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they struggle to survive develops in him a growing love.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-19
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Miracle in the Rain
Overview: Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-31
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The Victim
Overview: A woman is trapped during a storm in a house with no electricity or phone. A killer has murdered her sister, stuffed the body in the basement, and is now after her.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-14
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Hot Spell
Overview: Alma Duval, a middle-aged housewife, tries to hide how much she suffers from her husband's amorous excursions while trying to help her children solve their problems and doing her best to keep her family together as it's slowly falling apart. Meanwhile, daughter Virginia is dumped by her boyfriend because she cannot help him with his career. Her cheating husband's birthday party is approaching and many lines will be crossed after that event.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-21
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Breathing Lessons
Overview: A married couple review their lives and renew their love for one another while driving to a friend's funeral.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-06
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My Six Loves
Overview: A celebrated actress discovers six runaway children living on her country property.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-03
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White Mama
Overview: A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial relationship: he provides her companionship and protection, and she becomes the mother he never had.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-05
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F.D.R.: The Last Year
Overview: Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasion and engages in tempestuous summit meetings with his wartime allies Stalin and Churchill.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-15
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Stuck with Each Other
Overview: When their stingy boss suddenly drops dead, two coworkers decide to split the million in cash in his safe, only to find themselves pursued by the criminal owners of the money.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-17
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Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story
Overview: Relationship problems between a father and son are intensified by Hurricane Andrew.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-24
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Games Mother Never Taught You
Overview: Hard-working career wife Laura becomes the first female executive in an all-male office and is dismayed to find she now has to learn the rules of the corporate game.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-27
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Ultimate Betrayal
Overview: Based on a true story about two sisters who sue their father for incest and child abuse. As the story unfolds, it is revealed that the father severely abused all six children, and committed incest with all four of his daughters.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-20
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Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill
Overview: The first of three private-eye movies created by Robert Blake about rugged Joe Dancer as the forerunner to a prospective but unrealized series after the retirement of his "Baretta" character. In the initial outing, Blake, as Dancer, follows a trail of bodies through a maze of corruption involving a politically ambitious Beverly Hills family.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-29
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The Tree
Overview: A directionless and emotionally scarred young man kidnaps his niece, the daughter of his sister with whom he has a difficult past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-09
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All the Way Home
Overview: Jay Follet is suffering a mid-life crisis while his wife, Mary, is expecting their second child. When Jay takes his family to visit his 103-year-old grandmother, he begins to realize that life is passing by too quickly. He turns more and more toward alcohol to escape from reality. When Jay doesn't come home one night, Mary learns that he was in an accident and waits anxiously for his return. Screen adaptation of Tad Mosel's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning play based on James Agee's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel A Death in the Family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-01
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The Sorrows of Gin
Overview: An affluent suburban couple's empty and gin-fueled lives are observed through the eyes of their neglected, eight-year old daughter.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-24
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Wedding Band
Overview: A drama which examines the enduring nature of love between a white man and a black woman in 1918 South Carolina.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-24
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Sunshine Christmas
Overview: A musician, brooding over the marriage of his sometime girlfriend, decides to take his adopted daughter to his home in Texas to celebrate Christmas with his family. While there, he begins to rekindle the relationship he once had with his childhood girlfriend.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-12
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Stephen King's Golden Tales
Overview: A collection of horror stories taking the viewer into the dark world of Stephen King, featuring vampires, strange objects and sinister humor. The five 20-minutes tales were all taken from the Tales from the Darkside TV series and strung together as a video feature.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-19
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The Little Foxes
Overview: A tale of greed, one-upmanship, family distrust, abuse, apathy, and lost love, set in the deep south at the turn of the twentieth century.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-16
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A Doll's House
Overview: A wealthy woman's attempts to help her financially troubled husband go unrewarded.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-15
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The Trip to Bountiful
Overview: A woman has to live with a daughter in law who hates her and a son who does not dare take her side. While the unhappy family lives in a Houston apartment, Carrie Watts dreams of returning to Bountiful, where she was raised.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-01
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The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
Overview: J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI go after notorious bank robber and kidnapper Alvin Karpis and his gang.
Genres: TV Movie History Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-08
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The Honeymooners Christmas Special
Overview: With a Christmas lotto radio show coming up, Ralph Kramden invests his mother-in-law's social security check, Ed Norton's Christmas bonus, and the Nortons' life savings into lottery tickets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-10
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