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The Dollmaker is a 1984 American made-for-television drama film starring Jane Fonda and based on the 1954 novel written by Harriette Arnow. [1] It was originally broadcast on ABC on May 13, 1984. Fonda was awarded the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. [2]
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May 13, 1984 · LOS ANGELES In 1971, Jane Fonda first read Harriette Arnow's novel ''The Dollmaker'' and resolved that one day. she would play Mrs. Arnow's heroine, Gertie Nevels, an Appalachian woman...
Fonda never envisioned "The Dollmaker" as TV movie. Though she had great success with Lily Tomlin in Netflix's 2015-2022 comedy series "Grace and Frankie," Fonda had a rather snobbish...
In her TV-movie debut, Jane Fonda stars as an illiterate Kentucky woman who uproots her children to follow her husband to Detroit during World War II, where he has found work as a mechanic, and tries to adjust to a new way of life by utilizing her natural talents as a wood carver.
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Jane Fonda stars in this film based on Harriette Arnow's 1954 best-selling novel which literary critic Joyce Carol Oates has called "our most unpretentious American masterpiece." In 1944, Gertie and Clovis Nevels and their five children live on a small rented farm in rural Kentucky.
Jane Fonda gives an Emmy-winning performance as Gertie Nevels, a pioneer woman and the mother of five from the Kentucky hills who is forced to uproot her children to follow her husband Clovis (Levon Helm) to Detroit when he finds work during World War II.
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During World War II, hard-luck farmer Colvis Nevels leaves his rural Kentucky home to take a factory job in bustling Detroit. Reluctantly accompanying Colvis is his long-suffering wife, Gertie, a talented woodcarver set in her traditional ways.
