
Mary Alice
Oyuncu · 1936 – 2022 · Indianola, Mississippi, USA
Mary Alice was born on December 3, 1936 in Indianola, Mississippi, USA to parents Ozelar Jurnakin (Smith) and Sam Smith. She was an actress, known for The Matrix Revolutions (2003), Awakenings (1990) and Malcolm X (1992). She taught in Elementary School before her acting career took off. When she was still a struggling actress doing stage plays, she made a living doing her castmate's laundry for a salary of $200 a week. She was a lifelong liberal Democrat, feminist, and civil rights activist. Was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2000. She retired from acting in 2005. She died of natural causes on July 27, 2022 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. Upon her death, she was buried with her siblings at Oak Wood Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois, in regard for her last wishes.
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Film7.5DramSuçButch Haynes ve partneri Terry Pugh, Huntsville Hapishanesi’nden kaçtıktan sonra, girdikleri evdeki Philip Perry ismindeki çocuğu rehin alırlar. Terry, çocuğa kötü davranınca Butch Terry’i öldürür ve çocuğu da alıp kaçar. Butch ve Philip, beraber seyahat ettikçe birbirlerini tanıyacaklar ve Butch, ailesi tarafından hemen hemen eğlenceli hiçbir şey yapmasına izin verilmemiş Philip için daha önce sahip olmadığı bir rol modeli olacaktır. Bu arada peşlerinde de Texas Korucusu 'Red' Garnett ve suç bilimci Sally Gerber vardır. Kusursuz Dünya, Clint Eastwood’un etkileyici anlatımı ve Kevin Costner ile küçük oyuncu T.J. Lowther arasındaki uyumla en iyi Eastwood dramlarından birine dönüşüyor. Eastwood’un baştan filmde oynamak gibi bir niyeti olmadığını ve Butch rolü için başta Denzel Washington’ı düşünmüş olduğunu da belirtelim.
Film7.8DramDr. Malcolm Sayer, insan ilişkileri çok zayıf olan ve hayatı boyunca laboratuvarlarda bilimsel araştırmalar yapan bir doktordur. Personel yetersizliği yaşayan bir hastane, başka başvuru olmadığı için Sayer'ı işe almak zorunda kalır. Dr. Sayer, çok uzun yıllardır katatonik olan hastaları tedavi etmek için deneysel bir ilacı Leonard Lowe üzerinde test eder. Bu sayede 30 yıllık komadan uyanan adam, yetişkin olarak yeni yaşamına alışmaya çalışır.
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1992 · 2K votes
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Film5.9DramRomantikThe seeds of love are planted when Lisa, a high-powered investment banker, receives flowers from a secret admirer. But when his fairy-tale fantasies clash with her workaholic ways, they soon find out that sometimes, it's harder than it seems for love to conquer all.
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Life with Mikey
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To Sleep with Anger
1990 · 68 votes
Film7.0TarihDramStory of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to seize the city and free the black slaves, but this failed and he and others were hanged. Set in Charleston in 1822.
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
1982 · 2 votes
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Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder
1995 · 1 votes
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Down in the Delta
1998 · 30 votes
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1989 · 22 votes
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Lawman Without a Gun
1979 · 1 votes
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The Vernon Johns Story
1994 · 4 votes
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Film6.9BelgeselBilim KurguThe making of Matrix Revolutions, The (2003) is briefly touched on here in this documentary. Interviews with various cast and crew members inform us how they were affected by the deaths of Gloria Foster and Aaliyah, and also delve into the making of the visual effects that takes up a lot of screen time. Written by Rhyl Donnelly
The Matrix Recalibrated
2004 · 61 votes
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The Education of Sonny Carson
1974 · 8 votes
Film10.0DramA Vietnam War–era drama chronicling the emotional journey of two unlikely friends who form a bond en route to Washington, D.C.
Heading Home
1995 · 1 votes
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The Photographer
2000 · 4 votes
Film7.8BelgeselAn inside look at a writing workshop led by playwright and activist Eve Ensler, consisting of 15 women, most of whom were convicted of murder. Through a series of exercises and discussions, the women delve into their pasts and explore the nature of their crimes and the extent of their own culpability. The film culminates in an emotionally charged prison performance of the women's writing by acclaimed actors Mary Alice, Glenn Close, Hazelle Goodman, Rosie Perez, and Marisa Tomei.
What I Want My Words to Do to You
2003 · 5 votes
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Law & Order
1990 · 729 votes
Dizi7.2Bilim Kurgu ve FantastikDramMonica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.
Touched by an Angel
1994 · 189 votes
Dizi6.1KomediBelgeselThe best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
Great Performances
1971 · 25 votes
Dizi7.0DramSavaş ve PolitikaL.A. Law is an American television legal drama 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 a 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 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. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
L.A. Law
1986 · 81 votes
Dizi6.6DramKomediAmerican Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.
American Playhouse
1982 · 8 votes
Dizi7.2KomediAileA Different World is a spin-off series from The Cosby Show and originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional mixed but historically black college in the state of Virginia. After Bonet's departure in the first season, the remainder of the series primarily focused more on Southern belle Whitley Gilbert and mathematics whiz Dwayne Wayne. The series frequently depicted members of the major historically black fraternities and sororities.
A Different World
1987 · 77 votes
Dizi8.0SuçDramOswald Hapishanesi'ne hoş geldiniz... Ama Oz adıyla da bilinen bu özel hapishaneye adım attığınzda, 'hoş bulduk' demek de biraz zorlanacaksınız; çünkü Oz'da sınır tanımayan, sert olaylara tanıklık edecek ve mahkûmlarla gardiyanların nasıl bir psikolojiye sahip olduklarını çok daha iyi anlayacaksınız... Suçluları ıslah edebileceğini düşünen bir idealist olan Tim McManus (Kinney) tarafından yönetilen bu cezaevinin tüm sakinleri, kendi ihtiyaçlarını karşılayabilimek için mücadele veriyor; çete üyeleri, eşcinseller, Latinler, Müslümanlar... Kimi uyuşturucu ticareti ya da diğer gruplar üzerinde güç kazanabilmek için savaşıyor. Kimi paranın peşinde; kumar oynayarak ya da başka türlü dümenlerle paraya kavuşmaya çalışıyor. Bazı mahkûmlar ise sadece tahliye olabilecekleri günü görebilmek için hayatta kalmaya çalışıyor, hatta sadece yarını görebilmek için...
Oz
1997 · 884 votes
Dizi6.4Aksiyon ve MaceraSuçSergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute.
Police Woman
1974 · 33 votes
Dizi6.7DramProvidence is an American television drama series.
Providence
1999 · 26 votes
Dizi7.2KomediGreen Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a rural country farm. Produced by Filmways as a sister show to Petticoat Junction, the series was first broadcast on CBS, from September 15, 1965 to April 27, 1971. Receiving solid ratings during its six-year run, Green Acres was cancelled in 1971 as part of the "rural purge" by CBS. The sitcom has been in syndication and is available in DVD and VHS releases. In 1997, the two-part episode "A Star Named Arnold is Born" was ranked #59 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
Green Acres
1965 · 80 votes
Dizi6.3DramAn anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
Performance
1991 · 2 votes
Dizi8.0KomediGood Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the CBS television network. It was created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans, and developed by Norman Lear, the series' primary executive producer. Good Times is a spin-off of Maude, which is itself a spin-off of All in the Family along with The Jeffersons. The series is set in Chicago. The first two seasons were taped at CBS Television City in Hollywood. In the fall of 1975, the show moved to Metromedia Square, where Norman Lear's own production company was housed.
Good Times
1974 · 86 votes
Dizi7.5KomediThe misadventures of a cantankerous junk dealer and his frustrated son.
Sanford and Son
1972 · 102 votes
Dizi6.1KomediAileCosby is an American situation comedy television series broadcast on CBS from September 16, 1996 to April 28, 2000, loosely based on the British sitcom One Foot in the Grave. The program stars Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashād, who previously worked with Cosby in the 1984–1992 NBC sitcom The Cosby Show. Madeline Kahn portrayed their neighbor, Pauline, until her death in 1999.
Cosby
1996 · 33 votes
Dizi7.5DramI'll Fly Away is an American drama television series set during the late 1950s and early 1960s, in an unspecified Southern U.S. state. It aired on NBC from 1991 to 1993 and starred Regina Taylor as Lilly Harper, a black housekeeper for the family of district attorney Forrest Bedford, whose name is an ironic reference to Nathan Bedford Forrest, the founder of the Ku Klux Klan. As the show progressed, Lilly became increasingly involved in the Civil Rights Movement, with events eventually drawing in Forrest as well. I'll Fly Away won two 1992 Emmy Awards, and 23 nominations in total. It won three Humanitas Prizes, two Golden Globe Awards, two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Drama Series, and a Peabody Award. However, the series was never a ratings blockbuster, and it was canceled by NBC in 1993, despite widespread protests by critics and viewer organizations. After the program's cancellation, a two-hour movie, I'll Fly Away: Then and Now, was produced, in order to resolve dangling storylines from Season 2, and provide the series with a true finale. The movie aired on October 11, 1993 on PBS. Its major storyline closely paralleled the true story of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi. Thereafter, PBS began airing repeats of the original episodes, ceasing after one complete showing of the entire series.
I'll Fly Away
1991 · 6 votes
Dizi9.0DramSet in New York City, the series brings the viewer into the jury room to watch the deliberators try to answer the many questions posed during a trial. As facts are exposed through flashbacks of testimony and crime footage, viewers will form their own opinions about the guilt or innocence of the defendant. Following each verdict, a final flashback will let viewers see the crime as it actually happened and reveal whether or not the jury made the right decision.
The Jury
2004 · 3 votes
Dizi7.2DramSoul Food: The Series is a television drama that aired Wednesday nights on Showtime from June 28, 2000 to May 26, 2004. Created by filmmaker George Tillman, Jr. and developed for television by Felicia D. Henderson, Soul Food is based upon Tillman's childhood experiences growing up in Wisconsin, and is a continuation of his successful 1997 film of the same name. Having aired for 74 episodes, it is the longest running drama with a predominantly black cast in the history of North American prime-time television.
Soul Food
2000 · 14 votes
Dizi4.4SuçDramKojak is an American television series starring Ving Rhames, airing on the USA Network cable channel, and on ITV4 in the United Kingdom. It was a reimagined version of the 1973-1978 series starring Telly Savalas. Rhames portrays Lieutenant Theo Kojak of the New York City Police Department, a skilled plain clothes detective with a shaved head and an affinity for jazz, fine clothing, and lollipops. As with the original series, he is fond of the catchphrase "Who loves ya, baby?" The series lasted for one season.
Kojak
2005 · 7 votes
Dizi6.0DramA multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
The Women of Brewster Place
1989 · 3 votes
Dizi6.8DramA weekend in the life of the Arnett family. The events of a forty eight hour period in St. Paul, MN, have a rainbow of incidents. From a preacher to a drug dealer; from an innocent young school girl to a reformed drug addict gone bad. The same scenario that millions of American families encounter each day in suburbia; both black and white and brown and yellow. There are no racial boundaries to the ups and downs of the real American life.
Laurel Avenue
1993 · 4 votes