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The Dollmaker is a american film of genre Drama directed by Daniel Petrie released in USA on 13 may 1984 with Jane Fonda
The Dollmaker (1984)
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Add to a movie listThe Dollmaker is an American made-for-TV movie, starring Jane Fonda, who was awarded the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress In A Limited Series Or A Special for her performance. It was first broadcast on ABC in 1984. The movie is based on the novel of the same title, written by Harriette Arnow and originally published in 1954. Director Daniel Petrie won a Directors Guild of America Award.
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The movie is the story of a family that moves from the rural home in Appalachia to Detroit Michigan where the father intends to find work in a factory. Fonda's character, Gertie, is hesitant to leave their home; her husband Clovis believes that it will bring the family a regular income and better way of living. What Fonda's Gertie finds is a new place to exist, rather than live, and the family settles down in a tar paper shack by the railroad tracks in an industrial area.Actors
Jane Fonda
(Gertie Nevels)
Mike Bacarella
(Truck Driver)
David Dawson
(Amos)
Christine Ebersole
(Miss Vashinski)
James N. Harrell
(Old John Miller)
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