Main Cast: Mary Tyler Moore, Lea Thompson, Kathleen Quinlan, Mary Nell Santacroce, Tom Nowicki
Release Year: 1993
Country: US
Run Time: 100 minutes
Plot
Inspired by a 60 Minutes story, the made-for-cable Stolen Babies is the fact-based story of supposed "angel of mercy" Georgia Tann. Throughout the 1940s, Ms. Tann oversaw the adoption of children from her Tennessee orphanage. Since she was considered a pillar of the community, few questioned Tann's methods. Only when dedicated social worker Anne Beals began chipping away at Tann's respectable veneer did a terrible truth come to light. The principal selling angle of Stolen Babies was the way-against-type casting of Mary Tyler Moore as purse-lipped, bespectacled, quietly sinister Georgia Tann (not surprisingly, Moore won an Emmy for this chilling performance). Lea Thompson was more traditionally cast as the whistle-blowing Anne Beals. Stolen Babies first aired March 25, 1993, over the Lifetime Cable service. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Jenny Krochmal; Terry Beaver - Mr. Phelps; Dan Biggers - Mr. Crump; Larry Black - Reporter #2; Wilbur Fitzgerald - Reporter #1; Ed Grady - Abe Walbauer; Edith Ivey - Jane Hamm; Ken Jones - Jim Wester; Janell McLeod - Postmistress; Brett Rice - Robert Taylor; Clarinda Ross - Claudia Bell; Rebecca Wackler - Nurse Higgins; Judson Vaughn - Jasper Bell; Janette Lane Bradbury - Meg Wilber; Matt Berry - Ronald Wester
Credit
Chip Radaelli - Art Director, Kirsten Everberg - Costume Designer, Eric Laneuville - Director, Karen I. Stern - Editor, Ian Sander - Executive Producer, Mason K. Daring - Composer (Music Score), Patricia A. Garhardt - Makeup, Guy Barnes - Production Designer, Paul Murphy - Cinematographer, Ann Kindberg - Producer
