Farrah Fawcett
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The plot follows Hughes' trial for the murder of her husband, James Berlin "Mickey" Hughes, following her setting fire to the bed he was sleeping in at their Dansville, Michigan home on March 9, 1977 after thirteen years of physical domestic abuse at his hands.
- Faith McNulty
- Crime Drama
- 1980
Oct 8, 1984 · The Burning Bed: Directed by Robert Greenwald. With Farrah Fawcett, Paul Le Mat, Richard Masur, Grace Zabriskie. An abused battered wife has had enough of her husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Robert Greenwald
- 1984-10-08
Mar 21, 2019 · Francine Hughes’ life story reads like a nightmare, and the book based on her ordeal, Faith McNulty’s The Burning Bed is as much a horror story as true crime reportage. As a child, Francine...
Francine Moran Hughes (later Wilson; August 17, 1947 – March 22, 2017) 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.
Jul 9, 2020 · “The Burning Bed” Recalls the Case That Changed How Law Enforcement Treats Domestic Violence | The New Yorker. Video Dept. “The Burning Bed” Recalls the Case That Changed How Law...
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The Burning Bed. Rent The Burning Bed on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. Francine Hughes (Farrah Fawcett) suffers the abuse of her husband, Mickey (Paul Le Mat), for almost a...
- Drama
Mar 31, 2017 · It became a cause célèbre when “The Burning Bed,” a 1980 book by the New Yorker writer Faith McNulty, was made into a television movie with the same title in 1984, with Farrah Fawcett as...
