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Jan 1, 1999 · A GIRL NAMED SOONER was made into a TV Movie - IBM/NBC Special, adapted by Suzanne Clauser, from her novel and starred Lee Remick, Richard Crenna and Cloris Leachman; endorsed by the NEA and nominated by Writers Guild of America as outstanding adaptation of the year.
A young girl in the hills of Indiana, who had been abandoned by her family and raised by a bootlegging old woman, is taken by the authorities and made the ward of a childless couple.
The adjustments of a backwoods 8-year-old (Susan Deer) to a foster home in 1930s Indiana. Elizabeth: Lee Remick. Mac: Richard Crenna. Old Mam: Cloris Leachman.
A Girl Named Sooner is a 1975 NBC Made-for-TV Movie directed by Delbert Mann, based on Suzanne Clauser's 1972 novel of the same name.. It's about a young girl named Sooner (Susan Deer) who lives with her guardian, an elderly moonshiner named Mam Hawes (Cloris Leachman), in a backwoods near the small town of Vevay, Indiana during The Great Depression.
Sooner is a young girl who lives with a mean, moonshiner whom she calls Old Mam. Old Mam works the girl from dawn to dusk, switches her when she's displeased, barely feeds and clothes her, and doesn't send her to school. Sooner gets by because, honestly, she doesn't know any other life and she has a special relationship with a few woodland ...
