Angela Lansbury
Mrs. Emily Pollifax
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- This made-for-television movie, based on the novels by, is about Emily Pollifax (), a mild-mannered New Jersey widow who, through a series of misunderstandings, joins the CIA and becomes an international spy. The film opens on the one-year anniversary of her husband Virgil's death, and she visits his grave, continue to talk to him for comfort.
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4.16. 27,597 ratings2,673 reviews. Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown children. She was tired of attending her Garden Club meetings. She wanted to do something good for her country. So, naturally, she became a CIA agent.
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Synopsis. This made-for-television movie, based on the novels by , is about Emily Pollifax (), a mild-mannered New Jersey widow who, through a series of misunderstandings, joins the CIA and becomes an international spy.
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (1966) Mrs. Pollifax is an elderly widow who has come to find life dull and is almost ready to end it all out of sheer boredom. Inspired by a newspaper profile of an actress who began her career in later life, she decides to fulfill a childhood ambition and apply for a job as a spy at the CIA.
- The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
- Dorothy Gilman
- Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled
Mar 31, 2012 · And when dauntless, widowed Mrs. Pollifax the grandmother decides to embark on her long-longed-for career (she's pushing sixty), she goes right to the heart of things- the CIA. It's a case of on-the-spot typecasting as by a fluke she is sent to Mexico to make a simple pick-up as the typical tourist.
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May 20, 1999 · The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax: Directed by Anthony Pullen Shaw. With Angela Lansbury, Thomas Ian Griffith, Ed Bishop, Paul Birchard. When her doctor recommends that a widow pursue her unfulfilled life ambitions, he doesn't realize that she has always wanted to be a spy.
The unexpected Mrs. Pollifax. by. Gilman, Dorothy, 1923-2012. Reviewed by Sheryn Morris, Librarian, Literature & Fiction, August 9, 2022. View it in Our Catalog.
