HALLMARK HALL OF FAME: GRACE AND GLORIE (TV)
Summary
One in this series of dramatic specials presented by Hallmark. In this drama, transplanted career woman Gloria Greenwood volunteers to give hospice care to terminally ill Grace Stiles when she opts to die at home. Grace approves her grandson's sale of the family farm, but when her nursing home roommate dies, she decides to live out her final days on her farm and Gloria and fellow volunteer Rosemary are assigned to look after her at home. Against hospice rules and the wishes of Grace, Grace's grandson Roy and Gloria's husband David, Gloria becomes personally involved with Grace, trying to find a way to get Grace a better price for the sale of her land to the developer, Mr. Anders, and even opts to look after her even when Grace refuses to sign the hospice contract. As Grace nears death, the women bond over shared losses and encourage each other to be the champion of her own fate.
("Hallmark Hall of Fame" aired on NBC from 1952 to 1978; network affiliation varies after 1978.) (Beginning with the live telecast of the opera "Amahl and the Night Visitors" on December 24, 1951, Hallmark has sponsored a series of dramatic specials which since 1952 have been titled "Hallmark Hall of Fame."
From 1952 to 1955 Hallmark also presented "Hallmark Hall of Fame," a weekly half-hour dramatic anthology series hosted by Sarah Churchill. The first program, "Dr. Serocold," was televised in January 1952 under the title "Hallmark Television Theatre." This series also ran under the title "Hallmark Summer Theatre" in July and August 1952.)
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: December 13, 1998 Sunday 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:56:36
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:57237
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV, 1998
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - "Hallmark Hall of Fame" (video casettes of the series' dramas)
- TV - Commercials - "Hallmark Presents: Christmas with You: Natalie Cole" (music cd and casette)
- TV - Commercials - Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments
- TV - Commercials - Hallmark greeting cards
- TV - Promos - "60 Minutes II"
- TV - Promos - "Becker"
- TV - Promos - "CBS Tusday Movie: A Thousand Men and a Baby"
- TV - Promos - "Everybody Loves Raymond"
- TV - Promos - "Hallmark Hall of Fame: Night Ride Home"
- TV - Promos - "L.A. Doctors"
- TV - Promos - "Late Show with David Letterman"
CREDITS
- Richard Welsh … Executive Producer
- Brent Shields … Co-Executive Producer
- Arthur Allen Seidelman … Director
- Grace McKeany … Writer
- Tom Zieger … Based on the play by
- J.A.C. Redford … Music by
- Gena Rowlands … Cast, Grace
- Diane Lane … Cast, Gloria
- Neal McDonough … Cast, David
- Chris Beetem … Cast, Roy
- Carrie Preston … Cast, Charlene
- Emmy Rossum … Cast, Luanne
- Viola Davis … Cast, Rosemary Allbright
- Diane Kagan … Cast, Winnifred Bradley
- Sue Budgen … Cast, Dr. Peters
- Anne Pitoniak … Cast, Bernice Wallace
- Gordana Rashovich … Cast, Nurse Janice Crane
- William Severs … Cast, Rev. J.P. Conklin
- Jack Willis … Cast, Lou Edwards
- Ron McLarty … Cast, R.J. Anders
- Michael Emerson … Cast, Arnold Dudley
- Gregory Zaragoza … Cast, Cal
- Gus Corrado … Cast, Chris
- Rueben Jackson … Cast, Ed
- Marc Damon Johnson … Cast, Mike
- Michael Angarano … Cast, Bicycle Kid