Mini-series won several Emmy nominations

Press, 23 February 1989, Page 11

Mini-series won several Emmy nominations

Lee Remick’s performance in “Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder” earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Mini-series of Special in the 1986/87 television season.

The mini-series went on to be nominated for eight other awards, including “Outstanding Mini-series,” "Outstanding Supporting Actor” (for John Glover as Richard Behrens), "Outstanding Directing,” “Outstanding Writing” and “Outstanding Costume Design.”

Lee Remick has had several Emmy nominations in the past, and has a Golden Globe Award to her credit. Born in Boston, the daughter of an actress, she began her career at the age of 16, leaving school for a role in a Broadway production. Soon after her first Broadway show, she continued to appear in summer stock musicals, then moved up to national tours. Roles in television were soon offered to her and she appeared in all the major American drama series, including “Playhouse 90" and "The Hallmark of Fame.” After the director Elia Kazan selected her for a motion picture role in “A Face in the Crowd,” she rose to film stardom and major roles came quickly: “The Long Hot Summer,” “The Days of Wine and Roses” (for which she earned an Academy Award nomination), “Sometimes a Great Notion” and “The Omen.”

Along with her film roles, she appeared in various television projects, including “The Blue Knight,” which picked up

another Emmy nomination and gave her the Golden Globe Award, and “Jenny,” based on the life of Winston Churchill’s mother. Remick returns to the theatre from time to time and has appeared on Broadway as the blind, terror-stricken wife in “Wait Until Dark,” for which she received rave notices and a Tony nomination. Lee Remick has been married to the English stage director and producer Kip Gowans since 1970. The couple lived in London, but moved to the United States in 1981. They are bi-coastal, maintaining homes in Los Angeles and Cape Cod. They each have two children from their first marriages. In Part One of “Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder,” attractive vivacious Frances, the fourth child of a multimillionaire, Franklin Bradshaw of Salt Lake City, Utah, rebels against her father’s miserliness by spending lavishly, forging cheques, and embezzling money from him.

Determined to go to any lengths to acquire the wealth and power she wants, she contemplates murder when her father threatens to disinherit her.

“Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder” stars Lee Remick as Frances, G. D. Spradlin as Franklin Bradshaw, Elizabeth Wilson as his wife Bernice Bradshaw, with Inga Swenson (“Benson”) and Linda Kelsey (“Lou Grant,” “Day by Day”) as the Bradshaw sisters, Marilyn and Elaine. The first instalment screens on Sunday at 8.20 p.m. on Two.