Crazy Mama / The Lady In Red [Double Feature]

CRAZY MAMA

Academy Award® winner* Cloris Leachman stars in Crazy Mama as Melba Stokes, a middle-aged woman who runs a California beauty parlor with her mother Sheba (Ann Sothern) and teenage daughter Cheryl (Linda Purl). When the shop is repossessed, the three ladies take a road trip which turns into a crime spree from California to the family home in Arkansas. Also starring Donny Most (Happy Days), Jim Backus (Rebel Without A Cause), and Stuart Whitman (The Longest Day), Crazy Mama was directed by Academy Award® winner** Jonathan Demme (The Silence Of The Lambs).

THE LADY IN RED

Pamela Sue Martin stars as the infamous Lady in Red, Polly Franklin, whose red dress served as an identifying beacon for the FBI’s murder of public enemy #1, John Dillinger (Robert Conrad) in Lewis Teague’s The Lady In Red. From sweatshop to dime-a-dance hall, from prison to house of prostitution, Polly’s journey brings her even closer to the gang-run crime world of the ’30s … until that fateful day when she met and fell in love with John Dillinger. Academy Award® winner+ Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest) and Christopher Lloyd (Back To The Future) also star.

* 1971: Best Actress in a Supporting Role, The Last Picture Show

** 1991: Best Director, The Silence Of The Lambs

+ 1975: Best Actress in a Leading Role, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest