My Sweet Charlie

My Sweet Charlie
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Written by	Richard Levinson William Link
Directed by	Lamont Johnson
Starring	Patty Duke Al Freeman Jr.
Theme music composer	Gil Melle
Country of origin	USA
Original language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	Bob Banner Richard Levinson William Link
Running time	1 hour 37 minutes
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	January 20, 1970

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.

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.

Production notes

In 1966, Westheimer adapted his novel for a play that opened at Broadway's Longacre Theatre with Bonnie Bedelia and Louis Gossett in the leading roles. It ran for 12 previews and 31 performances.^[1]

The television production was filmed on location in Port Bolivar, Texas in 1968 and was plagued by almost as many racial tensions as those depicted in the film. According to Patty Duke in her autobiography, her friendship with Freeman led to rumors of an affair. Marijuana was planted in Duke's Galveston hotel room by locals, though it was quickly determined not to belong to Duke. Texas governor, John Connally, intervened with local authorities to stop harassment of the production company and Duke.^[2]

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 at the Internet Broadway Database
↑ ^ a b c d e Duke, Patty; Kennen Turan (1987). Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke. Bantam Books. pp. 8. ISBN 0-553-27205-5

External links

My Sweet Charlie at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Lamont Johnson

A Covenant with Death (1967)
Kona Coast (1968)
My Sweet Charlie (1970)
The McKenzie Break (1970)
A Gunfight (1971)
The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972)
You'll Like My Mother (1972)
That Certain Summer (1972)
The Last American Hero (1973)
Visit to a Chief's Son (1974)
The Execution of Private Slovik (1974)
Lipstick (1976)
One on One (1977)
Somebody Killed Her Husband (1978)
Crisis at Central High (1981)
Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981)
Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper (1981)
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985)

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series

1955–1975	Reginald Rose for Twelve Angry Men (1955) Rod Serling (1960) Rod Serling (1961) Reginald Rose (1962) Robert Thom / Reginald Rose for "The Madman" (1963) Ernest Kinoy for "Blacklist" and Rod Serling for "It's Mental Work"(1964) David Karp for "The 700 Year Old Gang" (1965) Millard Lampell for "Eagle in a Cage" (1966) Bruce Geller for "Mission: Impossible" (1967) Loring Mandel for "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" (1968) JP Miller for "The People Next Door" (1969) Richard Levinson & William Link for "My Sweet Charlie" (1970) Joel Oliansky for "To Taste of Death But Once" (1971) Richard Levinson & William Link for "Death Lends a Hand" (1972) John McGreevey for "The Scholar" (1973) Joanna Lee for "The Thanksgiving Story" (1974) Howard Fast for "Benjamin Franklin: The Ambassador" (1975)

1976–2000	Sherman Yellen for "John Adams: Lawyer" (1976) William Blinn & Ernest Kinoy for "Show #2" (1977) Gerald Green for "Holocaust" (1978) Michele Gallery for "Dying" (1979) Seth Freeman for "Cop" (1980) Steven Bochco, Michael Kozoll for "Hill Street Station" (1981) Steven Bochco, Michael Kozoll, Jeff Lewis, Michael I. Wagner, Anthony Yerkovich for "Freedom's Last Stand" (1982) David Milch for "Trial by Fury" (1983) Tom Fontana, John Masius, John Ford Noonan for "The Women" (1984) Patricia Green for "Who Said It's Fair, Part 2" (1985) Tom Fontana, John Masius, Joe Tinker for "Time Heals, Parts I & II" (1986) Steven Bochco, Terry Louise Fisher for "The Venus Butterfly" (1987) Paul Haggis, Marshall Herskovitz for "Business as Usual" (1988) Joseph Dougherty for "First Day/Last Day" (1989) David E. Kelley for "Blood, Sweat, and Fears" (1990) David E. Kelley for "On the Toad Again" (1991) Diane Frolov / Andrew Schneider for "Seoul Mates" (1992) Tom Fontana for "Three Men and Adena" (1993) Ann Biderman for "Steroid Roy" (1994) Lance A. Gentile for "Love's Labor Lost" (1995) Darin Morgan for "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" (1996) Stephen Gaghan / David Milch / Michael R. Perry for "Where's Swaldo?" (1997) Bill Clark / Ted Mann / David Milch for "Lost Israel: Part II" (1998) David Chase / James Manos, Jr. for "College" (1999) Rick Cleveland & Aaron Sorkin for "In Excelsis Deo" (2000)

2000–present	Mitchell Burgess & Robin Green for "Employee of the Month" (2001) Robert Cochran / Joel Surnow for "12:00 a.m. – 1:00 a.m." (2002) Mitchell Burgess & David Chase & Robin Green for "Whitecaps" (2003) Terence Winter for "Long Term Parking" (2004) David Shore for "Three Stories" (2005) Terence Winter for "Members Only" (2006) David Chase for "Made in America" (2007) Matthew Weiner for "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (2008) Kater Gordon & Matthew Weiner for "Meditations in an Emergency" (2009) Erin Levy & Matthew Weiner for "Shut the Door. Have a Seat." (2010) Jason Katims for "Always" (2011) Alex Gansa & Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff for "Pilot (Homeland)" (2012) Henry Bromell for "Q&A" (2013) Moira Walley-Beckett for "Ozymandias" (2014) David Benioff & D. B. Weiss for "Mother's Mercy" (2015)

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