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Francine Moran Hughes (later Wilson; August 17, 1947 – March 22, 2017) [1] was an American woman who, after thirteen years of domestic abuse, set fire to the bed in which her live-in ex-husband Mickey Hughes was sleeping, on March 9, 1977, in Dansville, Michigan. Mickey was killed and the house destroyed in the resulting fire.
The Burning Bed is a 1984 television drama film starring Farrah Fawcett, Paul Le Mat, and Richard Masur.Based on the 1980 non-fiction novel of the same name by Faith McNulty, it follows battered housewife Francine Hughes and her trial for the murder of her abusive husband, James Berlin "Mickey" Hughes.
The following year, her role as battered wife Francine Hughes in the fact-based television movie The Burning Bed (1984) earned her the first of her four Emmy Award nominations. [37] The project was the first television movie to provide a nationwide 800 number that offered help for others in the situation, in this case victims of domestic abuse ...
At a party, a 17-year-old named Tyrone asks Bumpy for a job, and Francine struggles to reconcile her feelings for Bumpy with his criminal ways. The Salkes break into Bumpy’s home, killing his guards, but Bumpy ambushes them and kills one while a terrified Francine shoots the other dead.
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Francine Hughes: Dansville: 1977-03-09: Woman set fire to bed, killing abusive ex-husband, found not guilty by reason of insanity, later made into book and TV movie The Burning Bed [2] [8] Eddie Jefferson: Detroit: 1979-05-09: Jazz vocalist shot by a disgruntled dancer outside Baker's Keyboard Lounge [9] Killing of Vincent Chin: Highland Park ...
Frances Jennifer "Frannie" Hughes (formerly Crawford) is a fictional character on the daytime soap opera As the World Turns played by several actresses from 1973 to 1992. Frannie was most notably portrayed by future Academy Award winner Julianne Moore , from April 2, 1985, to May 1988 and April 5, 2010.