
Birthday:
09-23-1922
Deathday:
02-12-2018 (95 years)
Birthplace:
Hamilton, Texas, USA
Biography
Was an American actress, perhaps best known for her portrayal of Bernice Edgar in Alfred Hitchcock's film Marnie (1964). Most of her work has been on television, including appearances on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Perry Mason, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Hawaii Five-O, Murder, She Wrote, Designing Women (as Perky, the mother of Julia and Suzanne Sugarbaker), and The X-Files. Latham was also the first person to learn the real circumstances of Dr Richard Kimble's wife's death in the final episode of The Fugitive (1967). She has also appeared in the films Mass Appeal (1984) and Love Field (1992). Latham's Broadway theatre credits include a 1956 revival of Major Barbara, Invitation to a March (1960), and Isle of Children (1962).
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Marnie
Act like Bernice Edgar
event1964 star_border 7.1
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Marnie is a thief, a liar, and a cheat. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, catches on to her routine kleptomania, she finds herself being blackmailed.
Firecreek
Act like Dulcie (midwife)
event1968 star_border 6.4
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A peace-loving, part-time sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.
White Lightning
Act like Martha Culpepper
event1973 star_border 6.1
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An ex-con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.
The Sugarland Express
Act like Mrs. Looby
event1974 star_border 6.6
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Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.
Obsessive Love
Act like Mrs. Foster
event1984 star_border 5.8
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A woman tries to create a relationship with the soap star who is the object of her obsession.
Territorial Men
Act like Martha Higgins
event1976
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The story of Sara Yarnell, a schoolteacher who moves from Philadelphia to the Western frontier to start a new life. She becomes the only teacher in a one-room schoolhouse in Independence, Colorado.
Paradise
Act like Catherine Reston Lee
event1991 star_border 6.2
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A 10-year-old boy spends a summer in the country with a childless couple and a precocious girl.
The Haunted
Act like Mary
event1991 star_border 6
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When the Smurl family moves into a duplex, they find out it's haunted.
Dying Room Only
Act like Vi
event1973 star_border 6.6
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A married couple are traveling on a deserted desert road at night. They stop at a diner and the husband goes to the men's room. He never returns and the wife begins to suspect serious foul play.
Mass Appeal
Act like Margaret
event1984 star_border 6.2
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A young seminarian rattles the established order at a Catholic parish run by an older pastor.
Savage
Act like Marian Stern
event1973 star_border 5.6
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A TV reporter investigates compromising photographs of a nominee to the Supreme Court.
The Ghost of Cypress Swamp
Act like Ma Landers
event1977 star_border 6
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A lost teenager and solitary murderer form an unusual friendship.
Crazy From the Heart
Act like Mae Esther
event1991 star_border 3.8
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A small-town, high-school principal still living at home with her mother shakes up her life in a way that even she never expected when she agrees to go out on a date with her school's Hispanic janitor.
The Philadelphia Experiment
Act like Pamela
event1984 star_border 6.1
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Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.
The Book of Murder
Act like Anne
event1974
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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.
The Harness
Act like Emma Randall
event1971
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A gentle John Steinbeck tale from 1938 about a farmer who is dominated by his ailing wife until a free-minded young woman turns up at his ranch with her eight-year-old son.
The Ghosts of Buxley Hall
Act like Bettina Buxley
event1980 star_border 6.3
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Ghosts and a young cadet try to save a military academy from being closed.
Settle the Score
Act like Helen Whately
event1989 star_border 4.5
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Katherine Whately, a tough, young Chicago cop, comes home to her small town to settle her teenage rape. She is welcomed by her brother but shunned by her father. Josh, the town doctor, is her only ally in her quest for the truth. Together Katherine and Josh find the bloody trail of a serial murderer and shatter the lie that is two decades old.
Sweet, Sweet Rachel
Act like Lillian Piper
event1971 star_border 6.3
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An ESP expert uses his powers to try to track down a psychic who uses telepathy to commit murder.
Love Lives On
Act like Nana
event1985 star_border 8
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A 15-year-old girl must choose between continuing her pregnancy and undergoing treatment for her fast-growing cancer.
Tell Me Where It Hurts
Act like Louise
event1974
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A housewife, increasingly disenchanted with her homemaker role, looks for new meaning in her life and organizes a discussion group, changing the lives of her six closest friends.
Love Field
Act like Mrs. Enright
event1992 star_border 5.9
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Dallas housewife Lurene Hallett's life revolves around the doings of Jacqueline Kennedy. She is devastated when President Kennedy is shot a few hours after she sees him arrive in Dallas. Despite her husband Ray's prohibition, she decides to attend the funeral in Washington, D.C. Forced to travel by bus, she befriends Jonell, the young black daughter of Paul Couter. Sensing something wrong, her good intentioned interference leads the mixed race threesome on an increasingly difficult journey to Washington with both the police and Ray looking for them.
Hail, Hero!
Act like Miss Mirabel
event1969 star_border 6
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Carl Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the law as a Vietnam protestor. It is our hero's intention to use love, rather than bullets, to combat the Viet Cong. Needless to say, his idealism is no match for the harsher realities of war.
Stillwatch
Act like Lila Thatcher
event1987 star_border 6.5
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Television journalist, Patricia Traymore, moves to Washington to do an in-depth interview with vice presidential hopeful, Senator Abigail Winslow. She moves into a house where she lived as a child and where her father murdered her mother and attempted to kill her. She wants to face the past and, with the help of a psychic neighbor, Lila Thatcher, find some answers about this tragic event. In the meantime, Senator Winslow has some secrets she is hiding.
The Young Lawyers
Act like Maria Cannon
event1969
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Attorney Michael Cannon leaves his Boston law firm to become director of the Neighborhood Law Office, where he guides three law students on a case involving two visiting musicians accused of robbing and beating up a cab driver. TV-pilot that was an ABC Movie of the Week in October of 1969 and then became a TV-series as part of the 1970-71 season.
Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal
Act like Pat Kinsman
event1982 star_border 6
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A poorly-educated housewife fights companies polluting her hometown's water table in upstate New York during the 1970s.
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Act like Mrs. Winemiller
event1976 star_border 8
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The tale of a lonely Southern woman's longing for her handsome next-door neighbor. At once tragic and romantic, the story is a reworking of the Williams play "Summer and Smoke," which uses the same characters and setting but in dramatically different ways.
Adam at Six A.M.
Act like Mrs. Hopper
event1970 star_border 4.7
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A disenchanted young Professor of Semantics at a California college learns of a distant relative's death in Missouri. He journeys cross-country to the funeral, then decides to spend the summer there and work as a laborer for a power-line company. In time, he meets a girl and falls in love but then faces an important decision as to which direction he wants his life to go.
92 in the Shade
Act like Mrs. Skelton
event1975 star_border 5.4
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A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter business, provoking a dangerous feud with a rival fishing sea captain.
Making It
Act like Mrs. Wilson
event1971 star_border 4.5
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A cocky high school student thinks nothing of using the people around him to satisfy his self-centered needs, until someone in his life gets pregnant.
Winter Kill
Act like Doris
event1974 star_border 7.4
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Someone is shooting the residents of a mountain resort town. Sheriff McNeill (Andy Griffith) must figure out the connection that links the victims and find the sniper before he (or she) kills again, and before the town council relieves him of duty.
Mary & Tim
Act like Forbsie
event1996 star_border 5.5
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Another adaptation of the novel "Tim", about the love that develops between a mentally challenged young man and the older, lonely widow who takes him under her wing.
Shell Game
Act like Constance Margolin
event1975 star_border 4
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A convicted con artist sets out to expose the head of a charity fund who has been embezzling money to cover his huge gambling losses.
Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill
Act like Fanny
event1979 star_border 2
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A variety of people are drawn together through their participation in an amateur talent contest in a country roadhouse.
Thin Ice
Act like Mrs. McCormick
event1981
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A teacher falls in love with a student, and deals with the reactions of the people around her.
Toughlove
Act like Mrs. Griffin (uncredited)
event1985 star_border 5
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The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the "Toughlove" program in searching for answers.
Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?
Act like Mrs. Schroeder
event1977
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A female private detective goes undercover as a porno actress to find a millionaire's missing daughter.
Johnny Belinda
Act like Mrs. McKee
event1967
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In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf and mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes scandal to swirl.
The Trouble with 'Marnie'
Act like Self
event2000 star_border 7.4
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This hour long documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's "Marnie" incorporates the usual melange of contemporary interviews with surviving participants and liberal helpings of film clips and production shots. It also presents a nice selection of script pages and memos as well. In the former category we find cast members 'Tippi' Hedren, Diane Baker, and Louise Latham, rejected screenwriters Joseph Stefano and Evan Hunter, final screenwriter Jay Presson Allen, daughter Pat Hitchcock O'Connell, production designer Robert Boyle, makeup artist Howard Smit, unit manager Hilton Green, Hitchcock historian Robin Wood, composer Bernard Herrmann biographer Steven C. Smith, and Hitchcock fan/filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich. An entertaining account of the film's production, the participants offer loads of valuable information and anecdotes. Highly enjoyable for Hitchcock fans and the film's growing number of admirers.
Pray TV
Act like Charlotte Oakes
event1982
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A newly ordained minister accepts a summer job with a dynamic TV evangelist only to find deep conflicts between the latter's conventional activities servicing his community's spiritual needs and his power wielded as a TV celebrity.
The Priest Killer
Act like Martha Gordon
event1971
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A police chief who is confined to a wheelchair and a former cop who is now a priest team up to discover who has been committing a series of murders of local priests. This is a TV movie and backdoor pilot for the proposed crime series SARGE, this aired as a special episode of IRONSIDE, at a movie-length 100 minutes (2 hours with commercials).
Gunsmoke
Act like Polly Cade (1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 6.6
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Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
The X-Files
Act like Marjorie Butters (1 ep.)
event1993 star_border 8.4
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The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
The Rogues
Act like Catherine DeMontrachet (1 ep.)
event1964 star_border 7.2
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The Rogues is an American television series that appeared on NBC from September 13, 1964, to April 18, 1965, starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Gig Young as a related trio of former conmen who could, for the right price, be persuaded to trick a very wealthy and heinously unscrupulous mark. Although it won the 1964 Golden Globe award for Best Television Series, the show was cancelled after one season consisting of thirty episodes.
The Fugitive
Act like Betsy Chandler (1 ep.)
event1963 star_border 7.2
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Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
Hothouse
Act like Louise Dougherty (7 ep.)
event1988 star_border 5
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A medical drama set in a New England psychiatric clinic includes father-and-son discord between the head of the facility and its business manager.
Columbo
Act like Mrs. Norris (1 ep.)
event1971 star_border 8.1
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Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
Hawaii Five-O
Act like Mrs. Klein (1 ep.)
event1968 star_border 7.1
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Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
Perry Mason
Act like Matilda Shore (1 ep.)
event1957 star_border 7.7
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The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
The Six Million Dollar Man
Act like Ms. Hallaway (1 ep.)
event1974 star_border 7.3
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Follow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent, employed by the OSI, under the command of Oscar Goldman and supervised by the scientist who created his cybernetics, Rudy Wells. Steve uses the superior strength and speed provided by his bionic arm and legs, and the enhanced vision provided by his artificial eye, to fight enemy agents, aliens, mad scientists, and a wide variety of other villains.
The Name of the Game
Act like Helen Bigelow (1 ep.)
event1968 star_border 6.8
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The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.
Fresno
Act like Ethel Duke (5 ep.)
event1986 star_border 6.4
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In Fresno, California, the once-wealthy Kensington family's raisin-growing empire has fallen on hard times. They are led by widowed matriarch Charlotte, who is locked in a deadly power struggle with rival raisin magnate Tyler Cane.
Bonanza
Act like Harriet Clinton (1 ep.)
event1959 star_border 7.5
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The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
Against the Grain
Act like Hilda (1 ep.)
event1993 star_border 3
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Insurance salesman Ed Clemons has just taken on the task of coaching the slumping high school football team of the small, but football-crazy town of Sumpter, Texas. He is given just one season to turn the fumbling teens around, and he throws himself into the job wholeheartedly. Though his methods ruffle the feathers of the quiet little town, he manages to make some real progress with the players. The show was inspired by Buzz Bissinger's book Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream.
The Contender
Act like Alma Captor (5 ep.)
event1980
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A college student turned prizefighter hopes to make it big so that he can support his widowed mother and younger brother.
Earth 2
Act like Old Lydia (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 6.7
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Two centuries in the future, when pollution has forced humans to abandon Earth in favor of cramped space stations, scientist Devon Adair hijacks a spacecraft and sets out with a band of followers in search of another planet that will offer a brighter, more normal future to children like her son, Ulysses. Joining Devon and Ulysses are mechanic John Danziger and his daughter, True; team physician Julia Heller, who has her own secret agenda; Alonzo Solace, a pilot; Yale, a cyborg; and Morgan, a craven government agent, and his wife, Bess. The voyagers find their planet, but their ship crash-lands on the wrong side of the globe, forcing them to attempt an arduous and dangerous trek to their ultimate destination, New Pacifica.
Scruples
Act like Mary Ann Evans (3 ep.)
event1980 star_border 5.2
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The title of the bestselling 1978 novel by Judith Krantz is the name of an ultra-chic Bevery Hills boutique that rags-to-riches Billy Ikehorn (Lindsay Wagner) established to fill the void left in her life by the illness of her elderly tycoon husband (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) and his subsequent death. To help make Scruples what it has become, Billy had brought in top fashion photographer Spider Elliott (Barry Bostwick) and fashion designer Valentine O'Neill (Marie-France Pisier), and it is the intertwined lives and romances that propel this sumptuous but sudsy saga.
The Invaders
Act like Joan Corman (1 ep.)
event1967 star_border 6.8
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The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them, for him it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy. Now, David Vincent knows that the Invaders are here, that they have taken human form. Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun.
Murder, She Wrote
Act like Mrs. Oates (1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 7.5
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An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
McNaughton's Daughter
Act like Cassy Garnett (3 ep.)
event1976 star_border 1
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Series pilot about a female deputy district attorney assigned the task of trying to pin a murder rap on a "saint," a beloved religious crusader accused of killing her young lover.
The Awakening Land
Act like Jary Luckett (3 ep.)
event1978 star_border 7.2
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A lusty frontier saga about a pioneer woman and her love for her family, the man she marries, and the land on which she lives, dramatized from Conrad Richter's Pulitzer Prize-winning trilogy: 'The Trees;' 'The Fields;' and 'The Town.' The series originally aired on NBC in three installments from February 19 to February 21, 1978 and stars Elizabeth Montgomery and Hal Holbrook.
Backstairs at the White House
Act like Miss Nesbitt, Housekeeper (4 ep.)
event1979 star_border 5.9
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Behind the scenes at the White House during eight administrations, as told by the people who work there.
ER
Act like Mrs. Cupertino (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 7.8
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ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Act like Maude Isles (1 ep.)
event1962 star_border 7.8
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A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
Great Performances
Act like Mrs. Winemiller (1 ep.)
event1971 star_border 5.4
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The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
Designing Women
Act like Perky Sugarbaker (1 ep.)
event1986 star_border 6.7
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Julia Sugarbaker, Mary Jo Shively, Charlene Frazier-Stillfield and Suzanne Sugarbaker are associates at their design firm, Sugarbaker and Associates. Julia is the owner and is very outspoken and strong-willed. Mary Jo is a divorced single-parent whom is just as strong-willed as Julia, but isn't as self-confident. Charlene is the naive and trusting farm girl from Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Suzanne is the self-centered ex-beauty queen whom has a number of wealthy ex-husbands.
Falcon Crest
Act like Irene (1 ep.)
event1981 star_border 5.5
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Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced.
The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.
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