American Actress
Joanna Merlin
- Jul 15, 1931 (age 89)
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2017
Movie∙Nov 2, 2017
Active Adults
Malcolm and Lily try to start their lives as they watch …
Malcolm and Lily try to start their lives as they watch Malcolm's grandparents' fall apart.
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2011
TV Show∙Oct 2, 2011
Homeland
Homeland is an American spy thriller television series …
Homeland is an American spy thriller television series developed by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa based on the Israeli series Prisoners of War (Original title Hebrew: חטופים, romanized: Hatufim, literally "Abductees"), which was created by Gideon Raff.
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2010
Movie∙Sep 16, 2010
Sarah's Key
One of the darkest moments in French history occurred in …
One of the darkest moments in French history occurred in 1942 Paris when French officials rounded up over ten thousand Jews and placed them in local camps. Eventually, over eight thousand were sent off to German concentration camps. As ten-year old Sarah (Mélusine Mayance) and her family are being arrested, she hides her younger brother in a closet. After realizing she will not be allowed to go home, Sarah does whatever she can to get back to her brother. In 2009, a journalist named Julia Jarmond (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) is on assignment to write a story on the deported Jews in 1942. When she moves into her father-in-law's childhood apartment, she realizes it once belonged to the Strazynski family, and their daughter Sarah.
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2009
TV Show∙Sep 22, 2009
The Good Wife
Alicia has been a good wife to her husband, a former state's …
Alicia has been a good wife to her husband, a former state's attorney. After a very humiliating sex and corruption scandal, he is behind bars. She must now provide for her family and returns to work as a litigator in a law firm.
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2008

Movie∙Nov 20, 2008
Beautiful Hills of Brooklyn
Beautiful Hills of Brooklyn released.
Movie∙Jan 18, 2008
The Wackness
Friendship, love, and coming of age in New York City, summer of …
Friendship, love, and coming of age in New York City, summer of 1994. Luke Shapiro has just graduated from high school, sells marijuana, and trades pot for therapy from a psychologist, Dr. Jeffrey Squires. Luke is attracted to a classmate, Stephanie, who's out of his league and Squires' step-daughter. By July, he's hanging out with Stephanie, taking her on his rounds selling pot out of an ice-cream pushcart. Then things take a turn. In the background, Squires and his wife as well as Luke's parents are having their troubles.
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2007
Movie∙Aug 17, 2007
The Invasion
While returning to Earth, the space shuttle explodes and the …
While returning to Earth, the space shuttle explodes and the fragments bring an alien virus that recodes the human DNA. In Washington, the psychiatrist Carol Bennell observes the modification of the behavior of one of her clients first, then in her former husband and finally in the population in general. Together with her friend Dr. Ben Driscoll the researcher Dr. Stephen Galeano, they discover that the extraterrestrial epidemic affects human beings while sleeping and that her son Ollie, who had chickenpox when he was a baby, is immune to the disease and may save mankind from the outbreak.
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2006
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Movie∙Jul 1, 2006
Just Another Story
Real-life rapper-turned-actor GQ (ON THE LINE, DRUMLINE) …
Real-life rapper-turned-actor GQ (ON THE LINE, DRUMLINE) writes and stars in his directorial debut as an aspiring white rapper torn between the carefree party lifestyle of his close-knit group of friends and the difficult work of creating a successful music career. Set during one pivotal weekend in the life of the New York City youth, GQ's hip-hop musical eschews the typical urban-drama formula for a breezy slice-of-life vibe. The strong supporting cast includes Jaclyn DeSantis, Mylika Davis, Nate Mooney, Omar Sharif Scroggins, and Fay Wolf.
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2001
Movie∙Sep 13, 2001
The Jimmy Show
Jimmy O'Brien works in the stockroom of a grocery store, …
Jimmy O'Brien works in the stockroom of a grocery store, where he is reminded of his powerlessness by his boss. Only his love for his wife offers him comfort, but their obligations to his invalid grandmother and a new baby stifle their dreams. It is not until open-mike night at the local comedy club that he allows himself to do what he needs to do: run off at the mouth.
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1999
Movie∙Dec 11, 1999
Witness Protection
In Boston, when the mobster Bobby "Bats" Batton is attacked by …
In Boston, when the mobster Bobby "Bats" Batton is attacked by a killer at home and escapes, he finds that he has fallen in disgrace with his boss since someone has falsely betrayed him ...
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Movie∙Nov 17, 1999
Black and Blue
After a woman's husband beats and abuses her, she and her …
After a woman's husband beats and abuses her, she and her son join the witness protection program and move away secretly.
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1998
Movie∙Apr 10, 1998
City of Angels
Seth is an angel who accompanies the spirits of the recently …
Seth is an angel who accompanies the spirits of the recently dead to the ever after. Seth has never been human and so has never experienced touch or taste. When in the hospital however he comes across Dr. Maggie Rice, a brilliant young heart surgeon who is devoted to her profession and her patients. Seth has the power to let himself be seen but Maggie finds him far too mysterious. Seth also meets a patient, Nathaniel Messinger, who has news for him - he too was once an angel like Seth but chose to fall to Earth and become human. Seth makes a decision on his future, which does not turn out as he had expected.
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1996
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Movie∙Sep 10, 1996
MURDER and murder
Mildred and Doris are two middle-aged white women, from …
Mildred and Doris are two middle-aged white women, from very different backgrounds, who become lovers and set up house together. Film explores the pleasures and uncertainties of later-life emotional attachment and lesbian identity in a culture that glorifies youth and heterosexual romance.
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1995
Movie∙Nov 22, 1995
Two Bits
It's a hot summer day in 1933 in South Philly, where 12-year …
It's a hot summer day in 1933 in South Philly, where 12-year old Gennaro lives with his widowed mom and his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding tight to his last quarter, which he's promised to Gennaro and which Gennaro would like to have to buy a ticket to the plush new movie theater. But grandpa's not ready to pass on the quarter or pass on to his final reward: he has some unfinished business with a woman from his past, and he enlists Gennaro to act as his emissary.
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1994
TV Show∙Sep 8, 1994
New York Undercover
New York Undercover is an American police drama that …
New York Undercover is an American police drama that aired on the FOX television network from September 8, 1994, to February 11, 1999. The series starred Malik Yoba as Detective J.C. Williams and Michael DeLorenzo as Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New York City's Fourth Precinct who were assigned to investigate various crimes and gang-related cases. The cast also included Patti D'Arbanville-Quinn as their superior, Lt. Virginia Cooper, and Lauren Vélez, who joined the cast in the second season as Nina Moreno, fellow detective and love interest to Torres. New York Undercover was created and produced by Dick Wolf, and its storyline takes place in the same fictional universe as Wolf's NBC series Law & Order, its spin-offs, the Chicago series, and Homicide: Life on the Street.
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1993
Movie∙Oct 15, 1993
Mr. Wonderful
Mr. Wonderful is a 1993 romantic comedy film directed by …
Mr. Wonderful is a 1993 romantic comedy film directed by Academy Award-winning director Anthony Minghella. The film stars Matt Dillon, Annabella Sciorra, Mary-Louise Parker, William Hurt and Vincent D'Onofrio.
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Movie∙May 23, 1993
Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Mar…
The story of Rosalie …
The story of Rosalie Bonnano, the daughter of a powerful New York Mafia boss who married the son of her father's rival, another powerful New York Mafia boss.
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1991

Movie∙Jul 17, 1991
A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfre…
A Marriage: Georgia …
A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz is a 1991 drama film directed by Edwin Sherin.
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Movie∙Mar 15, 1991
Class Action
Jed Ward is an attorney who specializes in whistle blower, …
Jed Ward is an attorney who specializes in whistle blower, David vs. Goliath, type cases. He finds a client who is suing an auto company over a safety problem that has had a severe effect on his life after the accident. He must replace the current attorney and be ready for trial quickly, and then he finds that the defense attorney will be his estranged daughter.
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TV Show∙Mar 8, 1991
Baby Talk
Baby Talk is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from …
Baby Talk is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from March 8, 1991 until May 8, 1992 as part of ABC's TGIF lineup. The show was loosely based on the Look Who's Talking movies and was adapted for television by Ed Weinberger. Amy Heckerling created original characters for the series while using key creative and script elements from Look Who's Talking, which she had written and directed. Weinberger served as executive producer during the first season, and was replaced by Saul Turteltaub and Bernie Orenstein in the second season.
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1990
TV Show∙Jul 12, 1990
Northern Exposure
Northern Exposure is an American Northern comedy-drama …
Northern Exposure is an American Northern comedy-drama television series about the eccentric residents of a fictional small town in Alaska, that ran on CBS from July 12, 1990, to July 26, 1995, with a total of 110 episodes. It received a total of 57 award nominations during its five-year run and won 27, including the 1992 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, two additional Primetime Emmy Awards, four Creative Arts Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globes. Critic John Leonard called Northern Exposure "the best of the best television in the past 10 years".
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Movie∙Jan 7, 1990
Murder in Black and White
A recently appointed black …
A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to investigate.
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1988
Movie∙Oct 21, 1988
Mystic Pizza
Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza …
Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in the Connecticut town of Mystic.
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TV Show∙Oct 4, 1988
American Experience
American Experience is a television program airing on the Public …
American Experience is a television program airing on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States. The program airs documentaries, many of which have won awards, about important or interesting events and people in American history.
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1987
Movie∙Oct 21, 1987
Prince of Darkness
A research team finds a mysterious cylinder in a deserted …
A research team finds a mysterious cylinder in a deserted church. If opened, it could mean the end of the world.
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1986
TV Show∙Sep 15, 1986
L.A. Law
L.A. Law is an American legal drama television series that …
L.A. Law is an American legal drama television series that ran for eight seasons on NBC, from September 15, 1986 to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features, including an ensemble cast, large number of parallel storylines, social drama, and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as capital punishment, abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff.
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1985
TV Show∙Sep 29, 1985
Amazing Stories
Amazing Stories is an American anthology television series …
Amazing Stories is an American anthology television series created by Steven Spielberg, that originally ran on NBC in the United States from September 29, 1985 to April 10, 1987. The series was nominated for 12 Emmy Awards and won five. The first season episode "The Amazing Falsworth" earned writer Mick Garris an Edgar Award for Best Episode in a TV Series. It was not a ratings hit (ranking 35th in Season 1 and 52nd in Season 2), however, and the network did not renew it after the two-year contract expired. The 1987 science fiction film Batteries Not Included was originally intended as a story for Amazing Stories, but Spielberg liked the idea so much that he decided to make it a theatrical release.
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1984
Movie∙Nov 2, 1984
The Killing Fields
Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist covering the …
Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist covering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with the local journalist Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the American forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help Schanberg cover the event. As an American, Schanberg won't have any trouble leaving the country, but the situation is different for Pran; he's a local, and the Khmer Rouge are moving in.
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1983
Movie∙Mar 4, 1983
Baby It's You
In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik …
In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.
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TV Show∙Jan 17, 1983
Frontline
Frontline is the flagship investigative journalism …
Frontline is the flagship investigative journalism program of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), producing in-depth documentaries on a variety of domestic and international stories and issues, and broadcasting them on air and online. Produced at WGBH-TV in Boston, Massachusetts, and distributed through PBS in the United States, the critically acclaimed program has received every major award in broadcast journalism. Its investigations have helped breathe new life into terrorism cold cases, freed innocent people from jail, prompted U.N. resolutions, and spurred both policy and social change.
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1982
Movie∙Oct 15, 1982
Love Child
It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean …
It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "five dollar" robbery. In the prison she will be pregnant by a jailer and she has to fight for bear and keep her child.
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Movie∙Apr 30, 1982
Soup for One
When Allan meets Maria he is sure he has found the perfect …
When Allan meets Maria he is sure he has found the perfect woman for him but she's not interested. He persists, she relents, they begin dating. Allan then starts to second guess what he thought he wanted.
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1980
Movie∙May 12, 1980
Fame
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New …
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.
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TV Show∙Apr 19, 1980
CBS Schoolbreak Special
CBS Schoolbreak Special is …
CBS Schoolbreak Special is an American anthology series for teenagers that aired on CBS from April 1980 to January 1996. The series began under the title CBS Afternoon Playhouse, and was changed during the 1984 – 85 season. The concept was similar to ABC's Afterschool Special.
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Movie∙Apr 9, 1980
Nurse
Michael Learned plays Mary Benjamin, a recently …
Michael Learned plays Mary Benjamin, a recently widowed woman who, confronted with her son's departure for college, decides to resume her career as a head nurse in a Manhattan hospital in ...
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1979
Movie∙Dec 16, 1979
All That Jazz
Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he …
Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.
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1978
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Movie∙Jun 25, 1978
The Last Tenant
A group of family members face hard decisions about the …
A group of family members face hard decisions about the care of their elderly father who can no longer safely live alone and needs constant care in which case the eldest son's impending ...
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1975
Movie∙Mar 19, 1975
Hester Street
It's 1896. Yankel Bogovnik, a Russian Jew, emigrated to …
It's 1896. Yankel Bogovnik, a Russian Jew, emigrated to the United States three years earlier and has settled where many of his background have, namely on Hester Street on the Lower East Side of New York City. He has assimilated to American life, having learned English, anglicized his name to Jake, and shaved off his beard. He is working at a $12/week job as a seamster, the money earned to be able to bring his wife Gitl and his son Yossele to America from Russia. Regardless, he has fallen in love with another woman, a dancer named Mamie Fein. Nonetheless, he is excited when he learns that Gitl and Yossele are indeed coming to America. His happiness at their arrival is dampened when he sees that Gitl is not "American" looking like Mamie and has troubles assimilating as quickly as he would like. Except to Mamie, he tries to show a public façade that everything is fine at home with Gitl. But can their marriage survive these differences, and if not, will Gitl be able to manage in this new land where she has few supports?
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1972
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TV Show∙Oct 14, 1972
ABC Afterschool Special
ABC Afterschool Special is …
ABC Afterschool Special is an American television anthology series that aired on ABC from October 14, 1972, to July 1, 1997, usually in the late afternoon on weekdays. Most episodes were dramatically presented situations, often controversial, of interest to children and teenagers. Several episodes were either in animated form or presented as documentaries. Topics included illiteracy, substance abuse and teenage pregnancy. The series won 51 Daytime Emmy Awards during its 25-year run.
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1970
TV Show∙Jan 5, 1970
All My Children
Set in the fictional East Coast suburb Pine Valley, this …
Set in the fictional East Coast suburb Pine Valley, this show is the decades-old, risk-taking soap that centers around Erica Kane (Susan Lucci) and her long line of husbands.
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1967

Movie∙Oct 16, 1967
The Winter's Tale
King Leontes of Bohemia suspects his wife, Hermione, and his …
King Leontes of Bohemia suspects his wife, Hermione, and his friend, Polixenes, of betraying him. When he forces Polixenes to flee for his life, Leontes sets in motion a chain of events ...
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1965

Marriage∙1965
David Dretzin
Married David Dretzin.
1964
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TV Show∙May 4, 1964
Another World
Another World (often shortened to AW) is an American …
Another World (often shortened to AW) is an American television soap opera that aired on NBC from May 4, 1964, to June 25, 1999. It was created by Irna Phillips along with William J. Bell, and was produced by Procter & Gamble Productions at NBC Studios, 1268 East 14th Street in Brooklyn.
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1963
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TV Show∙Sep 23, 1963
East Side/West Side
East Side/West Side is an American drama series …
East Side/West Side is an American drama series starring George C. Scott, Elizabeth Wilson, Cicely Tyson, and later on, Linden Chiles. The series aired for one season (1963–64) and was shown Monday nights on CBS.
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1961
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TV Show∙Sep 16, 1961
The Defenders
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series that …
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series that ran on CBS from 1961 to 1965. It was created by television writer Reginald Rose. Original music for the series was scored by Frank Lewin and Leonard Rosenman.
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1958
TV Show∙Sep 30, 1958
Naked City
Naked City is a police drama series from Screen Gems which …
Naked City is a police drama series from Screen Gems which was broadcast from 1958 to 1959 and from 1960 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture The Naked City and mimics its dramatic "semi-documentary" format. As in the film, each episode concluded with a narrator intoning the iconic line: "There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them."
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Movie∙Sep 1, 1958
Weddings and Babies
Photographer struggles to make enough money to marry his …
Photographer struggles to make enough money to marry his fiancee, who is starting to believe he's delaying their marriage deliberately.
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1956
Movie∙Oct 5, 1956
The Ten Commandments
To escape the edict of Egypt's Pharaoh Rameses I (Ian …
To escape the edict of Egypt's Pharaoh Rameses I (Ian Keith), condemning all newborn Hebrew males, the infant Moses (Fraser C. Heston) is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah (Nina Foch), he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Sethi (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). Moses (Charlton Heston) gains Sethi's favor and the love of the throne Princess Nefretiri (Anne Baxter), as well as the hatred of Sethi's son, Rameses II (Yul Brynner). When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses is cast out of Egypt, and makes his way across the desert where he marries, has a son, and is commanded by God to return to Egypt to free the Hebrews from slavery. In Egypt, Moses' fiercest enemy proves to be not Rameses II, but someone near to him who can "harden his heart".
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1950

Marriage∙December 1950
Martin Lubner
Married Martin Lubner.
1931
Birth∙July 1931
Joanna Merlin
Joanna Merlin was born.
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