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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 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 ...
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.
Ralph and Hughes married back in July 2005, about four years after Ralph and her ex-husband Eric Maurice, with whom she shares two children, divorced. ... For nearly two decades, Sheryl Lee Ralph ...
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 ...
Sheryl Lee Ralph is sharing why she and her husband, Vincent Hughes, whom she has been married to since 2005, have never lived together. The “Abbott Elementary” star recently spoke to People ...
They may live thousands of miles apart but Sheryl Lee Ralph and husband Vincent Hughes have been on the same page for decades.. The Abbott Elementary star, 69, opens up to PEOPLE in this week's ...
After her husband John died in 1956, Faith remarried, to Richard Martin, a set designer and an inventive designer of set props. The Burning Bed was based on the true story of Francine Hughes, who set fire to the bedroom in which her husband was sleeping. Hughes defended herself by saying that her husband had been abusing her for 13 years. The ...