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Aug 18, 2002 · Charms for the Easy Life: Directed by Joan Micklin Silver. With Gena Rowlands, Mimi Rogers, Susan May Pratt, Geordie Johnson. The story of three women who live in a North Carolina town and defy the traditional roles set forth for them by society.
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- Drama
- Joan Micklin Silver
- 2002-08-18
Jan 1, 2001 · A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeat lives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina. Radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy, brilliant daughter, Margaret, possess powerful charms to ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery that often beats a path to their door.
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In the 1940s, Southern midwife Charlie Kate Birch (Gena Rowlands) is given a lucky charm after healing a brutalized black man. In no time at all, her good-for-nothing husband...
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- Joan Micklin Silver
- TV-PG
- Gena Rowlands
Jul 5, 2005 · In Charms for an Easy Life, talented Kaye Gibbons sticks to what she does best: write about several generations of Southern women. Written as a fictional memoir, it chronicles the lives of a trio of strong willed women within one family, led by Charlie Kate, a turn-of-the-century unlicensed midwife in North Carolina.
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- Kaye Gibbons
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- Harper Perennial
Mar 24, 1993 · In Charms for an Easy Life, talented Kaye Gibbons sticks to what she does best: write about several generations of Southern women. Written as a fictional memoir, it chronicles the lives of a trio of strong willed women within one family, led by Charlie Kate, a turn-of-the-century unlicensed midwife in North Carolina.
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- Kaye Gibbons
Margaret struggles toward adulthood in a world torn apart by the Second World War and complicated by her strong-willed mother, Sophia, and grandmother, Charlie Kate, in a story about three generations of passionate, willful Southern women.
In a sad and singular era, they are unique among women of their time. For radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy and brilliant daughter Margaret possess powerful charms to ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery that all too often beats a path to their door.