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Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger

19800.0 / 1096 min

Drama, History, TV Movie

Overview

The dramatized biography of Margaret Sanger, the crusader who founded America's first birth control clinic during World War I and was tried in court under obscenity laws.

Cast

Bonnie Franklin

Margaret Sanger

David Dukes

Bill Sanger

Richard Johnson

Havelock Ellis

Stacy Keach

Judge Murdock

Frances Lee McCain

Ethel Higgins

Milo O’Shea

Michael Higgins

Albert Salmi

Big Bill Haywood

Yvonne Wilder

Fania Mindell

William Windom

Monseigneur Soldini

Carol Eve Rossen

Anita

Garn Stephens

Mollie Farber

Deborah Baltzell

Ida Lifshiz

Kathleen Doyle

Marvis

James Karen

Untermeyer

F. William Parker

Warden Hale

Helen Boll

Matron #2

John Carlyle

FBI Man

Joella Deffenbaugh

Mrs. O'Hara

Anson Downes

Messenger

Olive Dunbar

Mrs. Sullivan

John Christy Ewing

Congressman Berger

Matthew Faison

D.A. Content

Lisbeth Fielding

Matron #1

Laurence Haddon

Prosecutor

Maurice Hill

Warren Harding

Tommy G. Kendrick

Reporter

Archie Lang

Butler

Bob Larkin

Reporter #3

Russ Marin

Dr. Hilburn

Robert Nadder

Dr. Rutgers

John O'Leary

Dr. Jessup

Jami Platt

Young Margaret

Bruce Reed

Jake Sacks

Glenn Robards

Reporter #1

Elizabeth Ruscio

Dolly

Shirley Slater

Mrs. Thomas

Fred Slyter

Bailiff

Joanne Strauss

Mrs. Daley

Jane Strudwick

Mabel Dodge

Bunny Summers

Rose

Stacy Heather Tolkin

Peggy

Jimmy Weldon

Senator

Jason Wingreen

Judge Hazel

Crew

Marvin Minoff

Executive Producer

Christopher Morgan

Producer

Arthur B. Rubinstein

Music

Donald H. Birnkrant

Director of Photography

Jerrold L. Ludwig

Editor

Fred Harpman

Art Direction

Betsey Potter

Costume Design

Virgil W. Vogel

Director

Blanche Hanalis

Writer