Patty Duke
Marlene Chambers
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Jan 20, 1970 · My Sweet Charlie: Directed by Lamont Johnson. With Patty Duke, Al Freeman Jr., Ford Rainey, William Hardy. A pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up, abandoned house and realize they both need each other in order to survive.
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- Lamont Johnson
- G
- Patty Duke, Al Freeman Jr., Ford Rainey
Synopsis. Set during the Civil Rights Movement, Charlie Roberts is a militant African American attorney from New York City falsely accused of murder during a demonstration in rural Texas . Escaping from his captors, Charlie breaks into a vacant coastal vacation home, where he encounters white Marlene Chambers, an uneducated, prejudiced, unwed ...
- My Sweet Charlie novel by David Westheimer
- Universal Television
Brief Synopsis. A pregnant white southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run, meet in a boarded-up house in rural Texas and develop a close friendship for their mutual survival. Patty Duke won an Emmy for her acting -- the first given to a TV-movie performance -- and Levinson and Link were given Emmy.
- Lamont Johnson, Ralph Ferrin
- Patty Duke
Made an outcast by her family and her boyfriend because of an unwanted pregnancy, Marlene Chambers (Patty Duke) takes refuge in an abandoned seaside house. She is not there long before black ...
- Lamont Johnson
- G
- Patty Duke
1 hr 37 mins. Drama. G. Watchlist. Lamont Johnson directed this Emmy-winner about a curious friendship between a pregnant girl (Patty Duke) and a black fugitive (Al Freeman Jr.). Treadwell: Ford...
Dec 10, 2022 · Charlie is a black New York lawyer who is falsely accused of a crime in a Texas town. Escaping from his tormentors, Charlie takes refuge in a farmhouse. Here he meets unmarried, pregnant Marlene Chambers. Hostile towards each other at first, Charlie and Marlene become friends. Director: Lamont Johnson.
The film stars Patty Duke as Marlene, a 17-year old, Southern, bigoted, uneducated girl, who, upon learning she's pregnant, runs away from home and finds refuge in one of those boarded up summer houses on the Carolina coast. Her solitude is broken when Charlie (Al Freeman Jr.) also arrives at the house.
