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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 ...
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Roeg was born in Los Angeles in 1974 and is the oldest of Donald and Francine’s kids. Though he isn’t directly involved in film or television, Roeg works for the talent and sports agency, CAA.
Goldemberg wrote the screenplay and co-produced the television film The Burning Bed, which was originally broadcast by the NBC network in 1984. It was based on the true story of Francine Hughes, played by Farrah Fawcett, a victim of domestic violence who killed her abuser by setting their bed on fire. The movie earned very high ratings, was ...
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 ...
The fire was caused by a blown fuse when a laptop was being plugged in, family said.