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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 ...
Today (Tuesday, March 2), Penguin Random House publishes “Decoding Despacito’: An Oral History of Latin Music,” the latest book by Billboard vice president Leila Cobo, who may be the top ...
The official music video on YouTube was released on Fonsi's channel on January 12, 2017, and amassed one billion views in 97 days, becoming the second-fastest video on the site to reach the milestone. [150] [151] [152] It also became the fastest video on YouTube to surpass two billion views, with 154 days. [153]
The fire was caused by a blown fuse when a laptop was being plugged in, family said.
Farrah Fawcett - The Burning Bed as Francine Hughes; Jane Fonda - The Dollmaker as Gertie; Glenda Jackson - Sakharov as Yelena Bonner; Best Supporting Performance in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film Supporting Actor Supporting Actress Paul Le Mat - The Burning Bed as James Berlin "Mickey" Hughes. Pierce Brosnan - Nancy Astor as Robert ...
Toni is the eldest daughter of Valli and Mandel. Toni later married Gerry Polci, a member of her father’s Four Seasons band, in 1987. “I first saw him when I was 15,” she previously told The ...