A Brand New Life

• Director: Sam O'Steen
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• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Melodrama, Marriage Drama
• Themes: Expecting a Baby
• Release Year: 1972
• Country: US
• Run Time: 75 minutes

Plot

Cloris Leachman and Martin Balsam star in this TV movie as an over-forty married couple, both of whom maintain busy outside careers. Content with their peaceful, childless existence, the couple is thrown for a loop when, after 18 years of marriage, Leachman becomes pregnant. Beyond the understandable concerns over the health of her baby, she is not keen on the prospect of giving up her job--nor is she particularly responsive to the misguided advice of her friends and family. A Brand New Life premiered on February 20, 1973. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Martin Balsam - Jim Douglas; Lloyd Battista - Dr. Arliss; Barbara Colby - Jessica Hiller; Mildred Dunnock - Mother; Elizabeth Harrower - Dr. Margaret Kalman; Wilfrid Hyde-White - Berger; Cloris Leachman - Victoria Douglas; Karen Philipp - Sarah White; Marge Redmond - Eleanor; Lois Walden - Nurse; Gene Nelson - Harry; Amy Robinson - Nancy; Marilyn Powell - Singer; Hunter Von Leer - Burt; Marcy Casey - Judith; Dee Gregory - Anne; Dick Kay Hong - Waiter; Jennifer Kulik - Harriet; Tony Mancini - Jack; Ann Urcan - Landlady

Credit

Ed Graves - Art Director, Sam O'Steen - Director, William H. Ziegler - Editor, Billy Goldenberg - Composer (Music Score), David M. Walsh - Cinematographer, Robert W. Christiansen - Producer, Rick Rosenberg - Producer, Peggy Chantler-Dick - Screen Story, Jerome Kass - Screenwriter

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