The Dollmaker
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Daniel Petrie
Mike Timoney
Marge Korisky
Levon Helm
Jamie Wild
James Harrell
Film Details
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Synopsis
In her TV-movie debut, Jane Fonda stars as an illiterate Kentucky woman who uproots her children to follow her husband to Detroit during World War II, where he has found work as a mechanic, and tries to adjust to a new way of life by utilizing her natural talents as a wood carver. Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn, who together wrote the Broadway play, "Foxfire," in which Cronyn starred with his wife, Jessica Tandy, reunited to do the television adaptation of Harriette Arnow's novel. Tandy initially was to have played the role of Fonda's mother, but a previous film commitment caused her to give up the part to Geraldine Page. It was Emmy Award nominated as Outstanding Drama Special, Jane Fonda was nominated as Outstanding Actress, and the writing, costume design, and sound mixing also were nominated.
Director
Daniel Petrie
Cast
Mike Timoney
Marge Korisky
Levon Helm
Jamie Wild
James Harrell
Etel Billig
Mike Nussbaum
James Lashly
Geraldine Page
Fran Thornton
David Wilson
Sheila Keenan
Billy Fitzgerald
Ellen Marchman
Susan Kingsley
Ralph Foody
Raymond Serra
Amanda Plummer
David P Dawson
Mary Seibel
Nikki Creswell
Ellen J Smith
Bruce Mckinnon
Ann Hearn
Diane Dorsey
Dan Hedaya
Studs Terkel
Jason Yearwood
Everett Smith
Christine Ebersole
Billie Henson
Ida Will Smith
Robert Swan
Gwen Mcgee
Dennis Lally
Starla Whaley
Bob Keenan
Patrick Billingsley
Derek Cooge
Phillip East
Jane Fonda
Sheb Wooley
Jimmy Mcdermott
Robert Mccord
Alex Harvey
Les Podewell
Edward Sadlowski
Jason Wild
Phyllis Boyens
Matthew P Freeman
Van Fox
Crew
Harriette Arnow
Ilona Bobak
Susan Cooper
Mike Copas
Hume Cronyn
Gary Daigler
William R. Finnegan
Bruce Gilbert
Ralph Hall
George Jenkins
Paul Lohmann
Alan Poul
Rita Roland
John Rubinstein
John Rubinstein
Bob Shelley
Scott Smith
Kathe Swanson
Julie Weiss
Film Details
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Aired in United States May 13, 1984
