Patty Duke in, "You'll Like My Mother" (1972).
The best made for TV movie of the 70s was Duel with Dennis Weaver, directed by Steven Spielberg before anyone knew who he was.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 24, 2025 1:42 AM |
Joan Crawford sure as hell knew him before.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 24, 2025 1:50 AM |
With perpetual retard Sian Barbara Allen
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 24, 2025 1:52 AM |
Rosemary Murphy could do anything: from To Kill a Mockingbird all the way to Frasier…
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 24, 2025 1:52 AM |
[italic]You'll Like My Mussy...
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 24, 2025 1:54 AM |
Patty Duke was the queen on the shitty 70s TV movies.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 24, 2025 2:39 AM |
I LOVED these 1970s made for TV movies
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 24, 2025 2:49 AM |
She won an Emmy for her first big tv hit….wel-earned
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 24, 2025 4:29 AM |
She did one where Stephanie Zimbalist was an au pair who went after hubs…. William Shatner, of course.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 24, 2025 5:29 AM |
^^ OMG - just looked at the credits. Quinn Cummings was the little girl!
What a comedown after an Oscar nom.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 24, 2025 5:32 AM |
Patty and John had Oscars, not just noms, so they came down farther.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | April 24, 2025 5:35 AM |
Great movie, though not technically a television film as it did get a theatrical release—I think it was certainly more popularly known in television though.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 24, 2025 6:12 AM |
[quote]r11 Patty and John had Oscars, not just noms, so they came down farther. - Quinn
But darling, your nomination was more recent than their wins, IIRC. And you were so very young, much was expected of you.
Yet you gave us this - Stephanie Zimblast chasing you with a kitchen knife.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 26, 2025 1:40 AM |
There was another made-for-tv "dangerous babysitter" movie that came out a year or two later with Kim Darby, "Summer Girl" I believe it was called. I think the girl who got all incest-y in the Amityville sequal was the babysitter.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | April 26, 2025 2:39 AM |
She was crazy, you know.
Dee-ranged.
And short.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | April 26, 2025 2:45 AM |
Yes—that’s Kim Darby alright.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | April 26, 2025 2:47 AM |
Lamont Johnson directed this one and "My Sweet Charlie," which she won an Emmy for.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | April 26, 2025 3:55 AM |