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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.
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.
The Burning Bed. 1984 · 1 hr 36 min. TV-MA. Drama · Crime. A battered wife sets her husband on fire one night after living with his beatings and humiliations for years. Subtitles: English. Starring: James Callahan Farrah Fawcett Paul Le Mat. Directed by: Robert Greenwald.
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.
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.
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Farrah Fawcett astounded critics with the heretofore unplumbed depths of her performing abilities, playing a battered wife charged with her husband's murder after setting his bed afire following years of beatings and humiliations.
The Burning Bed. After marrying her high school sweetheart, a woman falls into a marriage of constant abuse and terror until her desperation from a failed social welfare system and the need to protect her three children forces her to react with the ultimate revenge. HD. 3,207 IMDb 7.2 1 h 35 min 1984. X-Ray 7+.
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Jan 1, 1980 · The Burning Bed is the true story of Francine Hughes who killed her abusive ex-husband, Mickey, after enduring over a dozen years of emotional, financial and physical abuse. On March 9, 1977, in her home in Lansing, Michigan, Francine Hughes poured gas around her ex-husband's bed and lit it on fire.
- Faith McNulty
After years of beatings and terror, Francine Hughes set fire to her abuser's bed while he slept. Her confession and subsequent murder trial held the nation enthralled. A dramatic story of a woman pushed over the edge.
