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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.
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 ...
Starring Charlie’s Angels Jaclyn Smith, Art Carney (The Honeymooners), Paul Le Mat (who starred opposite Angels co-star Farrah Fawcett in 1985’s groundbreaking TV-movie, The Burning Bed), June ...
The Burning is a 1981 American teen slasher film directed by Tony Maylam, and starring Brian Matthews, Leah Ayres, Brian Backer, Larry Joshua, and Lou David.Its plot follows a summer camp caretaker who is horribly burnt from a prank gone wrong, where he seeks vengeance at a nearby summer camp years later.
Richard Masur (born November 20, 1948) is an American character actor who has appeared in more than 40 films. From 1995 to 1999, he served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG).
A former feature film and TV director, Greenwald, who made “The Burning Bed,” a seminal 1984 television movie about a battered wife played by Farrah Fawcett, started the nonprofit Brave New ...
The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) While The Slumber Party Massacre screenplay was initially written to be a parody of the then-new slasher film genre, famed low-budget movie producer Roger Corman ...