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The Burning Bed. The Burning Bed is both a 1980 non-fiction book by Faith McNulty about battered housewife Francine Hughes, and a 1984 TV-movie adaptation written by Rose Leiman Goldemberg. 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 ...
- Faith McNulty
- Crime, Drama
- 1980
- English
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.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Robert Greenwald
- 1984-10-08
Mar 21, 2019 · By the time Farrah Fawcett starred in a made-for-TV movie based on The Burning Bed in 1984, there was a National Domestic Violence Awareness Week, and the movement had made huge gains. Mary Evans ...
Francine Hughes. Francine Moran Hughes (later Wilson; August 17, 1947 – March 22, 2017) [1] 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.
- March 22, 2017 (aged 69), Leighton, Alabama
- Nurse, LPN
- Killing her husband after years of abuse, and being found not guilty by reason of temporary insanity
Jul 9, 2020 · Anna Boots writes on “The Burning Bed,” a new short documentary, from Retro Report, about domestic violence and law enforcement, and the cases of Francine Hughes and Thomia Hunter.
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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 decade because she cannot find ...
- Drama
Brief Synopsis. Read More. 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. Her greatly praised work won her an Emmy nomination as Outstanding Ac.
