Estelle Parsons
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Estelle Margaret Parsons (born November 20, 1927) is an American theatre, film and television actress and occasional theatrical director. After studying law, Parsons became a singer before deciding to pursue a career in acting. She worked for the television program Today and made her stage debut in 1961. During the 1960s, Parsons established her career on Broadway before progressing to film. She received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Blanche Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde (1967), and was also nominated for her work in Rachel, Rachel (1968). Parsons worked extensively in film and theatre during the 1970s and later directed several Broadway productions. More recently her television work included a role in the sitcom Roseanne. Nominated on four occasions for a Tony Award, in 2004 Parsons was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia article Estelle Parsons, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
Birthday: November 20, 1927
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Gender: Female
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Bonnie and Clyde
Overview: In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-13
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For Pete's Sake
Overview: Henrietta Robbins borrows money from a loan shark to finance her husband's investment in the stock market. However, when their stock plummets, she scrambles to find a way to pay the money back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-26
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Watermelon Man
Overview: A racist insurance agent lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. But his bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-27
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Rachel, Rachel
Overview: Rachel is a 35-year-old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-26
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Wilde Salomé
Overview: Pacino takes us on a journey as he unravels and re-interprets Oscar Wilde's once banned and most controversial work SALOME, a scintillating tale of lust, greed and one woman's scorn.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-20
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I Walk the Line
Overview: Henry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize others for their bad behavior. Miserable in his marriage, Henry falls in love with teenage seductress Alma, who is the daughter of local criminal and moonshiner Carl McCain. Henry's moral character comes further into question when he is tempted to conceal Carl's crimes in order to prolong his relationship with Alma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-18
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I Never Sang for My Father
Overview: Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother understands his need to get away, but warns him that moving so far away could be hard on his father. Just before the wedding, the mother dies. Hackman's sister (who has been disowned by their father for marrying a Jewish man) advises him to live his own life, and not let himself be controlled by their father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-18
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Ladybug Ladybug
Overview: Staff and students at a rural school react to a warning of an imminent nuclear attack, not knowing whether it is real or mistaken.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-23
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The UFO Incident
Overview: In the early 1960s, an interracial couple undergo hypnosis, which unlocks memories of a forgotten event on a lonely road. Soon they believe they were abducted by extraterrestrials.
Genres: Drama History Romance Science Fiction TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-20
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Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
Overview: The making-of documentary of Bonnie and Clyde.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-25
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Fore Play
Overview: A three-part omnibus centered around sex and its discontents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-01
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A Private Matter
Overview: The true story of Romper Room host "Miss Sherri" Finkbine, who, after the devastating effects of thalidomide were discovered in the early 1960s, sparked a firestorm of controversy with her determination to obtain an abortion.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-20
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Romantic Mysticism: The Music of Billy Goldenberg
Overview: A career overview of tv/film composer Billy Goldenberg.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-21
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Terror on the Beach
Overview: A family's outing turns out badly as they are terrorized by a gang of young thugs.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-18
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Freak City
Overview: After being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, a rebellious young woman is disease-stricken. Upon being admitted to a nursing home, she finds hope in the most unlikely of places...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-16
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Don't Drink the Water
Overview: The Hollander family's European vacation is interrupted when their plane is forced to land in Vulgaria. The Hollanders leave the plane to take pictures which results in accusations of spying. Chased by Vulgarian soldiers, they take refuge in the American Embassy under the protection of the absent ambassador's hapless son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-11
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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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The Tenth Level
Overview: Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazis, were willing to "just follow orders" and do horrible things to others. Professor Stephen Turner leads students to believe that they are applying increasingly painful electric shocks to other subjects when they fail to perform a task correctly, and is alarmed to see how much pain the students can be convinced to inflict "in the name of science."
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-26
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Guests of the Nation
Overview: This drama tells the story of Irish insurgents and the captured British soldiers whom they are assigned to guard. While confined to a remote farmhouse the foursome enjoy card playing, jig dancing, and a great deal of amiable bickering. Throughout the conviviality, however, Barney Callahan is haunted by the knowledge that reprisals will be in order if the Irish harm their British captives.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-09
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Open Admissions
Overview: An indifferent speech professor doing hack work in an urban college suddenly finds herself challenged by a ghetto youth with an intense desire to get a good education in this issue-oriented drama.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-08
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She's The Best Thing in It
Overview: Mary Louise Wilson is the most accomplished character actor you've never heard of. While teaching skeptical young students, she examines whether her life has been successful.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-16
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Broadway: The Next Generation
Overview: A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-16
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The Love Letter
Overview: 20th century computer games designer Scott, Civil War buff, buys an antique desk from that era and, while polishing it, he discovers a secret compartment in which sits an unmailed letter--a letter written by a young poet named Lizzie over a century earlier. Touched by her yearning for passion, he writes her back, egged on by his mystically inclined mother. Magically, his letter reaches Lizzie and they begin a correspondence that threatens Scott's impending marriage but promises to bring fulfilment to Lizzie. Spanning the Civil War to the present, the perils of Lizzie's war-torn situation threaten her safe passage into the future. Will their love endure the test of time?
Genres: Romance Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-01
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The Gun and the Pulpit
Overview: In the days of the "Wild West," a gunslinger, with a price on his head, discovers the body of a traveling minister who has been killed in an ambush. Fearing those who are following him, he assumes the dead minister's identity.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-03
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The Gentleman Bandit
Overview: Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-06
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The Lemon Sisters
Overview: Three life-long friends work the bars in 1980s Atlantic City performing the songs of the 1960s girl groups.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-01
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The American Clock
Overview: Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the stock market crash of 1929. Lee, a college-age young man, who now faces no possibility of entering college, decides to go on the road to see what is happening to the rest of the country.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-02
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That Darn Cat
Overview: While making his nightly rounds in the neighborhood, Patti's pet cat D.C. finds himself the carrier of a call for help from a kidnap victim. Patti enlists skeptical law enforcement help to find the victim before it's too late.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-14
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Diane
Overview: Diane is a devoted friend and caretaker, particularly to her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past choices and long-dormant memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-28
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Dick Tracy
Overview: The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-05
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Come Along with Me
Overview: Newly-widowed Mabel Lederer, who has psychic and mediumistic abilities, sells her house and belongings, changes her name, and moves to a new town. There she rents a room in a boarding house and holds a seance with the other tenants, with comical results.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-16
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Boys on the Side
Overview: After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-country travel partner. On their journey from New York City to Los Angeles, the two stop by Pittsburgh to pick up Jane's friend Holly, who is trying to escape an abusive relationship. With three distinct personalities, the women must overcome their differences to help one another.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-03
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June Moon
Overview: In this rousing satire a native upstate New York clerk comes to 1920s Manhattan with dreams of making in big on Tin Pan Alley.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-30
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A Memory of Two Mondays
Overview: Workers in an auto parts warehouse in 1933 New York City inhabit a bleak, dead-end world in the depths of the Depression where, at least, they have jobs. Introduced by its playwright, Arthur Miller, it was the first in a series of NET Playhouse programs concerning life in America during the Depression years.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-28
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Overview: Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who lived through it, creating a first-hand archive of personal backstage stories and memories. The new documentary is the long-awaited sequel to late filmmaker Rick McKay’s award-winning 2003 film Broadway: The Golden Age, continuing the saga into the '60s and '70s and spotlighting beloved classic Broadway shows including Once Upon a Mattress, Bye Bye Birdie, Barefoot in the Park, Pippin, A Chorus Line, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Chicago, and 42nd Street. Featuring a galaxy of stars including Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Glenn Close, André De Shields, Jane Fonda, Robert Goulet, Liza Minnelli, Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Ben Vereen, and many more, the film also includes rare archival photos and never-before-seen footage both onstage and off.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-14
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