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Director
  
Lamont Johnson

First episode date
  
January 20, 1970

Duration
  

Country
  
USA

7.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Network
  
NBC

Language
  
English

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Writer
  
Richard Levinson
,
William Link

Release date
  
January 20, 1970

Cast
  
Patty Duke
(Marlene Chambers),
Al Freeman, Jr.
(Charles Roberts),
Ford Rainey
(Treadwell),
William Hardy
(Mr. Larrabee),
Chris Wilson
(Mrs. Larrabee)

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My Sweet Charlie is an American television movie directed by Lamont Johnson. The teleplay by Richard Levinson and William Link is based on the novel of the same name by David Westheimer. Produced by Universal Television and broadcast by NBC on January 20, 1970, it later had a brief theatrical release. It is considered a landmark in television films. The film was made on location in Port Bolivar, Texas.

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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 pregnant teenager who has been shunned by her father and boyfriend due to her pregnancy, and who sought refuge in the vacant home a few weeks before Charlie arrives.

Realizing their survival depends upon their willingness to help each other, their relationship, at first defined by mutual contempt, prejudice, and hostility, slowly evolves into a touching friendship.

Principal cast

  • Patty Duke ..... Marlene Chambers
  • Al Freeman Jr. ..... Charlie Roberts
  • Ford Rainey ..... Treadwell

    • Principal production credits

  • Producers ..... Bob Banner, Richard Levinson, William Link
  • Original Music ..... Gil Melle
  • Cinematography ..... Gene Polito
  • Art Direction ..... Robert Luthardt
  • Costume Design ..... Charles Waldo

    • Awards and nominations

  • Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Patty Duke, winner)
  • Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama (winner)
  • Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing for Entertainment Programming - For a Special or Feature Length Program Made for Television (winner)
  • Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Al Freeman Jr., nominee)
  • Emmy Award for Outstanding Dramatic Program (nominee)
  • Emmy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama (nominee)
  • Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for Entertainment Programming - For a Special or Feature Length Program Made for Television (nominee)
  • Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Mixing (nominee)
  • Image Award for Best Program of the Year (winner)
  • Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television (winner)

    • References

    My Sweet Charlie Wikipedia
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    My Sweet Charlie IMDb My Sweet Charlie themoviedb.org