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2. www.history.com › news › burning-bed-syndromeFrancine Hughes Killed Her Abusive Husband—And Changed U.S ...

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   Mar 21, 2019 · By the time Farrah Fawcett starred in a made-for-TV movie based on The Burning Bed in 1984, there was a National Domestic Violence Awareness Week, and the movement had made huge gains. Mary Evans ...

3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Francine_HughesFrancine Hughes - Wikipedia

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   Francine Hughes. Francine Moran Hughes (later Wilson; August 17, 1947 – March 22, 2017) [1] was an American woman who, after thirteen years of domestic abuse, set fire to the bed in which her live-in ex-husband Mickey Hughes was sleeping, on March 9, 1977, in Dansville, Michigan. Mickey was killed and the house destroyed in the resulting fire.

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5. www.tvguide.com › movies › the-burning-bedThe Burning Bed - Full Cast & Crew - TV Guide

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   Learn more about the full cast of The Burning Bed with news, photos, videos and more at TV Guide

   • Director: Robert Greenwald

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7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Burning_BedThe Burning Bed - Wikipedia

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   The Burning Bed is a 1984 television drama film starring Farrah Fawcett, Paul Le Mat, and Richard Masur. Based on the 1980 non-fiction novel of the same name by Faith McNulty , it follows battered housewife Francine Hughes and her trial for the murder of her husband, James Berlin "Mickey" Hughes.

   • Author: Faith McNulty
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   • Publish Year: 1980

8. www.lansingstatejournal.com › story › newsFrancine Hughes Wilson, who inspired 'The Burning Bed,' dies ...

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   Mar 30, 2017 · A jury of 10 women and two men found her not guilty by reason of insanity of Hughes' murder. Related: From the Archives: 'Burning Bed' 40th anniversary "The Burning Bed": A turning point in fight ...

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   Was Farrah Fawcett in a movie based on the Burning Bed?

   • By the time Farrah Fawcett starred in a made-for-TV movie based on The Burning Bed in 1984, there was a National Domestic Violence Awareness Week, and the movement had made huge gains. Farrah Fawcett and Paul Le Mat in the 1984 made-for-TV movie, The Burning Bed.

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   Was the Burning Bed a good movie?

   • In his 2016 book co-written with Alan Sepinwall titled TV (The Book), television critic Matt Zoller Seitz named The Burning Bed as the 7th greatest American TV movie of all time, writing, "The film was a landmark in terms of content, depicting domestic violence as an unambiguous horror and a human rights violation".

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   Is the Burning Bed based on a true story?

   • Francine Hughes’ life story reads like a nightmare, and the book based on her ordeal, Faith McNulty’s The Burning Bed is as much a horror story as true crime reportage. As a child, Francine Moran watched her alcoholic father abuse her mother, and when she dropped out of high school to marry, she quickly became a spousal abuse victim, too.

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   Why is the burning bed so important?

   • The case would became a turning point in the growing movement against domestic violence. It inspired the bestselling book "The Burning Bed," the TV movie of the same name starring Farah Fawcett and Paul Lemat, a folk song and a hit for country star Martina McBride ("Independence Day").

   Francine Hughes Wilson, who inspired 'The Burning Bed,' dies at 69

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   Why is 'Burning Bed syndrome' important?

   • Cases like Francine Hughes’s helped draw awareness to the issue. After she was acquitted due to temporary insanity, “burning bed syndrome” became something studied by academics and used as a defense in other cases of women killing their abusers.

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10. www.chicagotribune.com › 2017/03/31 › francineFrancine Wilson, domestic abuse victim and subject of TV film ...

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    Apr 1, 2017 · Farrah Fawcett played Francine Wilson and Paul LeMat played her husband, James “Mickey” Hughes, in the 1984 TV movie, “The Burning Bed,” based on the trial of Wilson, who was found not ...