Nan Martin
Also Known As: Nancy Martin, Nancy "Nan" Clow Martin, Nancy Clow Martin
Biography: Nan Martin (July 15, 1927 – March 4, 2010) was an American actress and comedienne. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nan Martin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Decatur, Illinois, USA
Birthday: July 15, 1927
Deathday: March 04, 2010
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Overview: During a hallucinatory incident, Kristen Parker has her wrists slashed by dream-stalking monster, Freddy Krueger. Her mother, mistaking the wounds for a suicide attempt, sends her to a psychiatric ward, where she joins a group of similarly troubled teens.
Genres: Horror Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-27
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Big Eden
Overview: Henry Hart is a young gay artist living in New York City. When his grandfather has a stroke, Henry puts his career on hold and returns home to the small town of Big Eden, Montana, to care for him. While there, Henry hopes to strike up a romance with Dean Stewart, his high-school best friend for whom he still has feelings. But he's surprised when he finds that Pike, a quiet Native American who owns the local general store, may have a crush on him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-18
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Some Kind of Hero
Overview: A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-02
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Shallow Hal
Overview: After taking his dying father's advice, Hal dates only the embodiments of female physical perfection. But that all changes after Hal has an unexpected run-in with self-help guru Tony Robbins. Intrigued by Hal's shallowness, Robbins hypnotizes him into seeing the beauty that exists even in the least physically appealing women. Hal soon falls for Rosemary, but he doesn't realize that his gorgeous girlfriend is actually a 300-pound-not-so-hottie.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-01
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Outside Chance
Overview: An advertising executive finds herself in a small-town jail after being terrorized on a drive from Los Angeles to New York by two hitchhikers who steal her car and leave her unconscious by the roadside. She becomes a fugitive after killing her jailer during a rape attempt and breaking out with one of the hitchhikers who could prove her innocence.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-02
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The Mugger
Overview: A police shrink tries to identify and capture an elusive mugger that scars his female victims before stealing their purse.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-01
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For Love of Ivy
Overview: A white family has had the same Black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish year old son decides what she needs is a change and begins searching for a man to wine and dine her, but who won't marry her, thinking that this will distract her from her plans. The man he finds doesn't entirely cooperate.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-17
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The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II
Overview: The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 is a 1978 film directed by Larry Peerce. It stars Marilyn Hassett and Timothy Bottoms. It is a sequel to The Other Side of the Mountain
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-10
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The Other Side of the Mountain
Overview: One year before the Olympics, Jill Kinmont, an 18-year-old skiing champion, suffers a fall during competition and is left paralyzed. With her life now completely altered, she undergoes an exhausting fight to regain some of what she has lost.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-14
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Remember When
Overview: An uncle's (Jack Warden) memories give strength to a New England family with four sons fighting in World War II.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-23
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A Small Circle of Friends
Overview: In the late 1960s, three Harvard students Jessica, Leo and Nick grow close as they undergo personal changes, but their friendship is jeopardized by romantic feelings both men develop for Jessica.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-12
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Toys in the Attic
Overview: Julian Berniers returns from Illinois with his young bride Lily Prine to the family in New Orleans. His spinster sisters Carrie and Anna welcome the couple, who arrive with expensive gifts. The sisters hope Julian will help with their expenses, and he tells them that while his profitable factory went out of business, he did manage to save money. It turns out that Julian pulled off a real estate scam and took off with the money. Carrie is obsessed with her brother. Her jealousy of Lily pushes her to discover the shady land deal for herself and she does everything she can to wreck their marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-31
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Murder in the Mirror
Overview: Mary meets Paul, marries Paul and when Paul is murdered becomes the number one suspect. While the police are preparing their case against her she begins her own investigation which takes her to the seedy parts of town and begins to expose her husbands very secret double life.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-19
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Last Gasp
Overview: A ruthless real estate developer is possessed by the violent spirits of the Native American tribesmen he massacred, which force him to go on an indiscriminate killing spree against his will.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-30
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Loving Couples
Overview: Walter is a successful doctor, and so is his wife Evelyn. Wealthy and good-looking, they should be a happily married couple, but they're not. Walter is so caught up in his career that he fails to keep up with Evelyn. So when she falls for the charms of Greg, a real estate Romeo, it takes Walter by surprise. Even more so, because he finds out about it from Stephanie, Greg's deserted TV weather girl girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-24
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Mother of the Bride
Overview: A mother's plans for her daughter's wedding are complicated when her ex-husband, who abandoned the family more than 20 years earlier, shows up.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-27
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The Book of Murder
Overview: Much-married and once successful writer Henry T. Aythecliff, now heavily in debt, summons his three ex-wives to his mansion, planning to extort a sizable amount of money from each. When he is discovered dead, clues indicate that each of his four wives had motive and opportunity to murder him, and a young detective must sift through some ingeniously devised evidence.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-19
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Mrs. Harris
Overview: Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly brutal end at the hands of his jilted lover, Jean Harris.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-25
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Greener Mountains
Overview: Greener Mountains is a family friendly, coming-of-age story about finding your place in the world.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-25
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Goodbye, Columbus
Overview: A Jewish man and a Jewish woman meet, and while attracted to each other, find that their worlds are very different. She is the archetypal Jewish American Princess — very emotionally involved with her parents' world and the world they have created for her, while he is much less dependent on his family. They begin an affair which brings more differences to the surface.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-03
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Three in the Attic
Overview: In the swinging sixties three girls discover they have the same boyfriend who has been playing around with them all while vowing fidelity to each. To teach him a lesson he won't forget, the trio contrive to lock him up and continually favour him with their attentions in turn.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-20
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The Young Nurses
Overview: Sexy young nurses apply special therapy in their daily rounds, as they work against a drug ring operating out of the hospital
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-01
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The Winter of Our Discontent
Overview: This story tells those self-denials of an honest man what necessary to reach his object of life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-06
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Dancing at the Harvest Moon
Overview: A betrayed wife, whose husband leaves her after 25 years, returns to the lake where she first fell in love and begins an affair with the son of her first love.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-20
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The War Widow
Overview: Originally broadcast by KCET (PBS) on their dramatic showcase series, "Visions," this sweet, quiet film is set during World War I. It is the story of Amy, a proper, but lonely housewife whose husband is away at war. She finds solace in a friendship with a more worldly female photographer, only to have her entire world turned upside down when the friendship becomes genuine love and she is forced to choose. Groundbreaking for its powerful yet non-prurient portrayal of lesbian first love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-28
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Mrs. R's Daughter
Overview: When a young woman is brutally raped and beaten, her mother sets out to find justice for her.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-19
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Eames Lounge Chair
Overview: Stop-motion animation depicts a man assembling an Eames lounge chair, sitting down to relax in it, and then disassembling it for shipment.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Doctor Detroit
Overview: A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-06
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Bus Riley's Back in Town
Overview: Bus Riley returns to his small town after time in the army. On his return, his ex-girlfriend wants to resume their relationship. The only problem is she has married in the mean time. Searching for fulfilment in his life, Bus decides to get a job with his gay friend who is a mortician. When the mortician makes a pass at him, Bus quickly gets out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-24
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The Art of Love
Overview: Struggling artist fakes his own death so his works will increase in value.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-30
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Cast Away
Overview: Chuck Nolan, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia crashes at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and finds himself marooned on a desolate island. With no way to escape, Chuck must find ways to survive in his new home.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-22
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Terror in the Family
Overview: Fifteen-year-old Deena Marten wants the same freedom every teenager craves. But when she can't have her way, her rebellious temperament erupts in violence. Her parents, Cynthia and Todd, fear her new boyfriend, Garret, 17, is the cause. Distraught, Stephanie turns to alcohol, and Todd escapes in his work. They're unaware their Boy Scout son Adam, 13, sips from a vodka bottle hidden in his bedroom. And the problems in this dysfunctional family continue to worsen.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-16
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Jackson County Jail
Overview: A young woman stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-31
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The Golden Honeymoon
Overview: Charley Tate is an old windbag, often a braggart, but somehow always lovable. Married over fifty years to his ever-patient wife Lucy, the two of them are on their Golden Honeymoon in Florida. Everything goes perfectly... until Lucy meets her former fiancee who's also vacationing with his wife. Suddenly there's a comic competition between Charley and the old boyfriend for Lucy's attention. After fifty years, cantankerous Charley has to win his girl all over again!
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-04
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Thicker Than Water
Overview: After the death of her father, Natalie Travers discovers he was married to a rodeo star before he married Natalie’s mother. Upset that her father kept part of his life a secret from her and bewildered over how a prominent judge could fall for a cowgirl, she sets out to find Maggie Mae Jarrett. But Natalie meets her daughter Jessie Mae Jarrett who is struggling to keep the wild horses on her land alive and safe.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-05
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The Buster Keaton Story
Overview: An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Overview: Tom Rath is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with Italian village girl Maria, which resulted in an illegitimate son he's never seen. Pressed by his unhappy wife to get a higher-paying job, Rath goes to work as a public relations man for television network president Ralph Hopkins. Drawn into poisonous office politics, Tom finds he must choose his career or his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-12
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Animal Behavior
Overview: Biologist Alex Brisco develops a new method to communicate with chimpanzees. Instead of using machines, she teaches the chimps simple sign language. Her research is overlooked by ignorant colleagues, but one man, Mark, a cellist, helps Alex with her research.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-27
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Proud Men
Overview: A cattle rancher faces off with his estranged son. A right-wing cattle rancher wrangles with his recently returned son, a soldier who went AWOL in Vietnam. The proud men butt chins in this arid macho weepie.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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A Circle of Children
Overview: A teacher at a school for emotionally disturbed children takes an interest in one particular child who doesn't talk but emits a stream of gibberish.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-10
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Forever Lulu
Overview: A schizophrenic romantic tracks down her college sweetheart to help her find their son she gave up for adoption sixteen years ago to the dismay of his new wife.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-07
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Prime Suspect
Overview: A respectable businessman becomes the prime suspect in the abduction and murder of several young girls. He is hounded by the media and disowned by his friends and neighbours.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-20
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Child of Rage
Overview: A priest and his wife adopt a brother and sister, but the girl has terrible outbursts of rage. They get her in treatment and try to find out the reason for this.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-24
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Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold
Overview: A naive Texas beauty queen, seeking Hollywood stardom, quickly learns the realities of the business after attending an unethical modeling school.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-23
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Matters of the Heart
Overview: A noted concert pianist in her early forties, totally obsessed with her music, retreats to a small town to be alone and to write a concerto, but there falls for a talented teenage musician and becomes consumed in an affair with him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-26
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The Gardener's Son
Overview: Based on true events which took place in the mill town of Graniteville, South Carolina in 1876, the story follows the rich Greggs, who run the mill, and the poor McEvoys, who work there. The animosity between their sons leads to tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-06
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All of Me
Overview: Just before stubborn millionaire Edwina Cutwater dies, she asks her uptight lawyer, Roger Cobb, to amend her will so that her soul will pass to the young, vibrant Terry Hoskins – but the spiritual transference goes awry. Edwina enters Roger's body instead, forcing him to battle Edwina for control of his own being.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-21
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I Take These Men
Overview: Moments before being surprised at an anniversary garden party thrown by her husband and their family and friends, Carol Sherwood shocks him by saying she wants a divorce and during the course of the party, she has three separate fantasies of marriages to three different men. The first is with egotistical real estate magnate Craig Wyler. The second is with milquetoast English professor David Koenig. The third is with her best friend Elaine's husband, Phil.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-05
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