CBS TUESDAY MOVIES, THE: PORTRAIT OF A REBEL: MARGARET SANGER (TV)
Summary
A drama based on the life of Margaret Sanger, a pioneer for birth control in the early 20th century. After meeting Haywood and Anita, Sanger becomes a journalist; Sanger founds an organization for birth control and begins publishing materials on sex education; Sanger's sister, Ethel, supports her but her father, Higgins, opposes her cause; Sanger is indicted for illegal mailings of birth control information; and Monsignor Soldini declares the church will fight Sanger.
Sanger leaves for England to postpone her trial; Sanger meets Havelock Ellis and decides to open a birth control clinic in the U.S.; Sanger's daughter dies; Sanger opens the clinic and is arrested; Ethel is sentenced to jail; Sanger is jailed; and Sanger returns to the clinic. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: April 22, 1980 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:38:15
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T80:0788
- GENRE: Drama, historical
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, historical; Biography; Birth control; Pregnancy and birth; Journalists
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV, 1980
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Marvin Minoff … Executive Producer
- Christopher Morgan … Producer
- Virgil Vogel … Director
- Blanche Hanalis … Writer
- Arthur B. Rubenstein … Music by
- Bonnie Franklin … Cast, Margaret Sanger
- David Dukes … Cast, Bill Sanger
- Richard Johnson … Cast, Havelock Ellis
- Frances Lee McCain … Cast, Ethel
- Milo O'Shea … Cast, Higgins
- Albert Salmi … Cast, Haywood
- Yvonne Wilder … Cast, Fania
- William Windom … Cast, Monsignor Soldini
- Carol Rossen … Cast, Anita
- Garn Stephens … Cast, Mollie
- Deborah Baltzell … Cast, Ida
- Kathleen Doyle … Cast, Marvis
- James Karen … Cast, Untermeyer
- F. William Parker … Cast, Warden Hale
- Helen Boll … Cast, Matron #2
- John Carlyle … Cast, Agent Fields
- Cherry Davis … Cast, Woman
- Jo Ella Deffenbaugh … Cast, Mrs. O'Hara
- Anson Downes … Cast, Messenger
- Olive Dunbar … Cast, Mrs. Sullivan
- John Christy Ewing … Cast, Congressman Berger
- Matthew Faison … Cast, D.A. Content
- Lisabeth Fielding … Cast, Matron #1
- Laurence Haddon … Cast, Prosecutor
- Maurice Hill … Cast, Warren Harding
- Stacy Keach Sr. … Cast, Judge Murdock
- Tommy Kendrick … Cast, Reporter #2
- Archie Lang … Cast, Butler
- Bob Larkin … Cast, Reporter #3
- Russ Marin … Cast, Dr. Hilburn
- Lee Murphy … Cast, Martha
- Robert Nadder … Cast, Dr. Rutgers
- John O'Leary … Cast, Dr. Jessup
- Jami Sue Platt … Cast, Little Margaret
- Bruce Reed … Cast, Jake Sacks
- Glenn Robards … Cast, Reporter #1
- Elizabeth Ruscio … Cast, Dolly
- Catherine Scheiber … Cast, Sadie Sacks
- Shirley Slater … Cast, Mrs. Thomas
- Fred Slyter … Cast, Bailiff
- Joanne Strauss … Cast, Mrs. Daley
- Jane Strudwick … Cast, Mabel Dodge
- Bunny Summers … Cast, Rose
- Stacy Heather Tolkin … Cast, Peggy
- Jimmy Weldon … Cast, Senator
- Jason Wingreen … Cast, Judge Hazel