HALLMARK HALL OF FAME: THE MARVA COLLINS STORY (TV)
Summary
One in this series of dramas presented by Hallmark. This historical recreation chronicles the struggle of Marva Collins, a disenchanted Chicago public school teacher who establishes her own elementary school. Collins finds that after fourteen years of teaching, she can no longer endure the bureacracies that hinder education in the public school system on Chicago's depressed West Side. With the help of her family, she builds a classroom in her home and educates disadvantaged and troubled children, despite financial problems and the cynicism of her students' parents. Commercials deleted.
("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 1, 1981 Tuesday 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:41:49
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T85:0909
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Biography; Drama; She Made It Collection (Marian Rees); African-American Collection - Drama
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV, 1981
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Marian Rees … Executive Producer
- Conrad Holzgang … Producer
- Clifford Campion … Co-Producer, Writer
- Anne Hopkins … Associate Producer
- Ron Von Schimmelmann … Associate Producer
- Peter Levin … Director
- Fred Karlin … Music by
- Cicely Tyson … Cast, Marva Collins
- Morgan Freeman … Cast, Clarence Collins
- Rodrick Wimberley … Cast, Martin Luther Jones
- Mashaune Hardy … Cast, Cindy Collins
- Brett Bouldin … Cast, Patrick Collins
- Samuel Muhammad … Cast, Eric Collins
- Dianne Kirksey … Cast, Cynthia Rawls
- Frankie Hill … Cast, Ida Banbower
- Charlie Brown … Cast, Chester Boland
- Marsha Warfield … Cast, Lela Boland
- Ce Ce Thompson … Cast, Louise Jones
- Jimmy Skaggs … Cast, Zay Smith
- Mike Genovese … Cast, Mardesich
- Kelly Crosby … Cast, Tina Boland
- Tonda Leavy … Cast, Clarissa Lester
- Duke Thorbs … Cast, Eddie Banbower
- Darlene Jackson … Cast, Roxanne Johnston
- Cynthia Collins … Cast, Rose
- Erika McCoy … Cast, Brenda
- Gordie Wright … Cast, Truman