Marsha MasonFilmography

Bereft

Actors: Vinessa Shaw, Tim Blake Nelson, Tim Daly, Marsha Mason, Michael C. Hall

Synopsis: A woman has a hard time embracing reality after a personal tragedy in this made-for-cable drama. Molly (Vinessa Shaw) is a young widow having a hard time putting her life back together after her husband's death. Molly obsesses over the leftover artifacts of his life, and she believes that his Read More

The Long Shot

Actors: Julie Benz, Marsha Mason, Paul Le Mat, Gage Golightly, David Alexander

Synopsis: Produced for cable's Hallmark channel, The Long Shot stars Julie Benz as expert equestrienne Annie Garrett. Forced by her demanding mother, Bonnie (Laura Johnson), to live under the shadow of her sister, Katie, who won 37 blue ribbons for her horsemanship before her death in a freak accident Read More

Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows

Actors: Judy Davis, Victor Garber, Hugh Laurie

Synopsis: From her gradual ascent to stardom in the 1930s to her death from a drug overdose at age 47 in 1969, former vaudeville baby Frances Ethel Gumm, aka Judy Garland, endured a string of personal and career ups and downs that continues to color her reputation as an icon whose tragedies outweighed her Read More

Intimate Portrait: Marsha Mason

Synopsis: This film profiles Marsha Mason, who found success early in her career, and married a fellow actor. However, the relationship didn't last. She moved from role to role, appeared in Blume in Love, and beat out top actresses for the coveted leading role of Cinderella Liberty. She found love again Read More

Restless Spirits

Actors: Lothaire Bluteau, Michael Monty, Juliana Wimbles, Marsha Mason, Leslie Hope

Synopsis: The ghosts of two daring pilots help a troubled young girl in this fantasy for the family. In 1927, a pair of French air aces, Charles Nungesser (Lothaire Bluteau) and Francois Coli (Michel Monty) hop into a single-engine biplane and take off for New York City with the intention of becoming the Read More

Intimate Portrait: Jane Alexander

Synopsis: Tony Award winner and four-time Academy Award nominee Jane Alexander is profiled in this biography from Lifetime. After a privileged upbringing in Massachusetts, the budding actress briefly attended Sarah Lawrence College until her sophomore roommate's life was cut tragically short. Alexander Read More

Frasier: Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do

Synopsis: After months of dating the acerbic and outspoken Sherry Dempsey (Marsha Mason), Martin (John Mahoney) decides it is time to pop the question. This does not rest well with Martin's sons, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) and Niles (David Hyde Pierce), who have never warmed up to Sherry -- and are even less Read More

Frasier: Three Dates and a Breakup, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Martin (John Mahoney) and Sherry (Marsha Mason) have broken up over a silly quarrel. While Martin's son, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer), is rather relieved to see the back of the bombastic Sherry, he soon realizes that his father is miserable without her. Thus it Read More

Frasier: Daphne Hates Sherry

Synopsis: Although Martin (John Mahoney) has patched up his quarrel with his lady friend Sherry (Marsha Mason), Martin's live-in caregiver Daphne (Jane Leeves) is not so politely inclined towards the older woman. Fed up with Sherry's meddling in her private life, Daphne walks out on Martin -- and Read More

Frasier: Three Dates and a Breakup, Part 1

Synopsis: Originally telecast as a one-hour episode, "Three Dates and a Breakup" has been split into two half-hour for syndication. In part one, Frasier's plans for a romantic weekend -- with no fewer than three lady friends -- are scuttled by his father Martin's girlfriend, Sherry (Marsha Mason). One thing Read More

Frasier: Three Days of the Condo

Synopsis: Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) decides that the time has come to replace the worn-out knocker on his apartment door with a brand new one of elaborate design. In doing so, however, Frasier runs afoul of the condo's board of directors, who tyrannically refuse to grant permission for this improvement. Read More

Frasier: Dad Loves Sherry, the Boys Just Whine

Synopsis: Marsha Mason makes her first series appearance as brassy barmaid Sherry Dempsey. Upon meeting Sherry, widower Martin Crane (John Mahoney) instantly falls in love with her. Well and good -- except that the outspoken, banjo-playing Sherry does not pass muster with Martin's prissy, classical Read More

Frasier: The Gift Horse

Synopsis: The 65th birthday of Martin Crane (John Mahoney) is rapidly approaching. This event also heralds a yearly ritual performed by Martin's sons, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) and Niles (David Hyde Pierce), to wit: virtually trampling over each another in their efforts to buy ever-increasingly expensive Read More

2 Days in the Valley

Actors: Danny Aiello, Greg Cruttwell, Jeff Daniels, James Spader, Teri Hatcher, Glenne Headly, Charlize Theron

Synopsis: A variety of crooks, losers, and working stiffs living in the shadow of Hollywood find their various personal crises overlapping in this intricately woven melodrama. Lee Woods (James Spader) is a cold-blooded hit man and Dosmo Pizzo (Danny Aiello) a soft-at-heart gangster; they've been sent to Read More

Nick of Time

Actors: Johnny Depp, Christopher Walken, Charles S. Dutton, Peter Strauss, Roma Maffia

Synopsis: A stranger pulled into a deadly scheme races against time to save his daughter in this thriller. Gene Watson (Johnny Depp) is an accountant who comes to L.A. with his ten-year-old daughter Lynn (Courtney Chase) to attend a funeral. On the street, Gene and Lynn are pulled aside by Mr. Smith (Christopher Walken Read More

Broken Trust

Actors: Tom Selleck, Elizabeth McGovern, Marsha Mason, William Atherton, Fritz Weaver

Synopsis: Tom Selleck stars in this made-for-television movie about a judicial sting operation. Selleck stars as Judge Timothy Nash, a respected judge who's approached by special agents to take part in an undercover sting to expose a fellow judge's corrupt activities. At first Judge Nash is willing, but as Read More

I Love Trouble

Actors: Julia Roberts, Nick Nolte, Saul Rubinek, James Rebhorn, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: In the style of the screwball comedies of the 1930s and 1940s, I Love Trouble depicts the developing romance of two rival reporters who reluctantly fall for each other while competing for a major scoop. Old hand Peter Brackett (Nick Nolte) and aspiring newcomer Sabrina Peterson (Julia Roberts) Read More

Drop Dead Fred

Actors: Phoebe Cates, Rik Mayall, Marsha Mason, Tim Matheson, Carrie Fisher

Synopsis: Phoebe Cates stars in this bizarre comedy that wants to be the kind of stylish comic fable the likes of Tim Burton's Beetlejuice and Pee-wee's Big Adventure but ends up looking like a shabby burlesque about schizophrenia. Cates is Elizabeth, who has recently separated from her philandering husband Read More

Stella

Actors: Bette Midler, John Goodman, Trini Alvarado, Stephen Collins, Marsha Mason

Synopsis: Bette Midler stars as Stella Claire, a working class, fun-loving barmaid in northern New York State. A brief affair with handsome Stephen Dallas (Stephen Collins) produces a daughter, Jenny (Trini Alvarado), who Stella insists upon raising alone, despite Dallas' marriage offer. As the years pass Read More

The Image

Actors: Albert Finney, Marsha Mason, Swoosie Kurtz, John Mahoney, Kathy Baker

Synopsis: Albert Finney stars as a TV-news anchorman who wrongly implicates a good friend in a savings-and-loan scandal; when the friend commits suicide, Finney must question his ethics and obsession with high Nielsen ratings. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Dinner at Eight

Actors: Lauren Bacall, Harry Hamlin, Marsha Mason, Ellen Greene

Synopsis: Dinner at Eight is a TV remake of the 1933 MGM film of the same name; both films were adapted from the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. While the basic plot point of a social-climbing woman (Marsha Mason) throwing a "best people" dinner party has not dated all that much, other elements Read More

Heartbreak Ridge

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Everett McGill, Moses Gunn, Eileen Heckart

Synopsis: Having spent much of his directorial career emulating Don Siegel and John Ford, Clint Eastwood borrows a page from the catalogue of Sam Fuller in Heartbreak Ridge. Eastwood casts himself as an old-fashioned Marine Corps sergeant who is out of step with the new-fashioned military. He returns to his Read More

Trapped in Silence

Actors: Marsha Mason, Kiefer Sutherland

Synopsis: A young boy retreats into a world of silence in this made-for-television drama. Kiefer Sutherland stars as Kevin Richter, an adolescent boy who has suffered from years of physical abuse. In an attempt to deal emotionally with the effects of the abuse, Kevin refuses to speak and instead lives in a Read More

Surviving

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Len Cariou, Zach Galligan, Marsha Mason

Synopsis: Originally telecast in a three-hour network slot, Surviving is virtually two films in one. In the first 90 minutes, we see the identity crises and outside pressures that propel a "normal" teenaged boy (Zach Galligan) and a "disturbed" teenaged girl (Mollie Ringwald) into committing suicide Read More

Max Dugan Returns

Actors: Marsha Mason, Jason Robards, Jr., Donald Sutherland, Matthew Broderick, Dody Goodman

Synopsis: Max Dugan (Jason Robards Jr.) is an elderly ne'er-do-well whose tenuous mob connections have made him persona non grata with his daughter Marsha Mason. Struggling to raise her restless son Matthew Broderick on her own, Mason is none too pleased when Max returns to the family fold with yet another Read More

Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal

Actors: Marsha Mason, Bob Gunton, Penny Fuller

Synopsis: Hardly a person is now alive who does not remember the 1978 ecological disaster at the chemical-waste deposits in Love Canal, New York. This made-for-TV film stars Marsha Mason as housewife Lois Gibbs, who suspects that her children have fallen ill due to leakage of toxic waste at the nearby Read More

Only When I Laugh

Actors: Marsha Mason, Kristy McNichol, James Coco, Joan Hackett, David Dukes

Synopsis: Playwright Neil Simon made one of his periodic forays into serious themes with the drama The Gingerbread Lady, and while this screen adaptation adds a bit more wit to the proceedings, it remains a change of pace from his usual breezy comedies. Georgia (Marsha Mason) is a successful actress who has Read More

Chapter Two

Actors: James Caan, Marsha Mason, Joseph Bologna, Valerie Harper, Judy Farrell

Synopsis: Neil Simon's bright, autobiographical romantic comedy, a big Broadway success, has been adapted to the screen in a screenplay by Simon, directed by Robert Moore, that subtly shifts the emphasis from the play. In the stage version, recently widowed writer George Schneider (James Caan) and his Read More

Promises in the Dark

Actors: Marsha Mason, Kathleen Beller, Ned Beatty, Susan Clark, Michael Brandon

Synopsis: This is a tragic tale of the slow degeneration of a cancer patient that is filled with pathos and sorrow. Buffy Koenig (Kathleen Beller) is terminally ill with cancer and for the two-hour running time, she goes through several surgical procedures, suffers all the devastating side effects of Read More

Is Everybody Happy But Me?

Synopsis: This documentary video focuses on a search for the secret of happiness. From religious cults and spiritualism, to overindulgence in food and sex, this is most interesting. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Good Doctor

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Marsha Mason, Ed Asner

Synopsis: Jack O'Brien directed this 1978 televised production of Neil Simon's The Good Doctor. Adapted by Simon from a collection of stories by Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov, the play features several characters all portrayed by the same six actors. The performers are Edward Asner, Bob Dishy Read More

The Cheap Detective

Actors: Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan, Sid Caesar, Stockard Channing, Dom DeLuise, Louise Fletcher, John Houseman, Madeline Kahn, Scatman Crothers

Synopsis: Spoofing the entire 1940s detective genre, and his own performances as a bumbling private detective, Peter Falk plays Lou Pekinpaugh, a San Francisco private detective accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress, the partner's wife, Georgia Merkle (Marsha Mason). Police Read More

The Goodbye Girl

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, Paul Benedict, Barbara Rhoades

Synopsis: Marsha Mason is known as "The Goodbye Girl" because of all the live-in boyfriends who have said ta-ta to her in the past few years. A former Broadway chorus dancer, the divorced Mason lives in the Manhattan apartment of her latest lost love with her daughter Quinn Cummings. Enter arrogant actor Richard Dreyfuss Read More

Audrey Rose

Actors: Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, John Beck, Susan Swift, Norman Lloyd

Synopsis: Audrey Rose is a "thinking man's" horror film, which in a way is unfortunate, since it tended to be ignored amidst the many spell-it-all-out scarefests of the late '70s. Marsha Mason and John Beck play Janice and Bill Templeton, a happily married couple, the parents of well-adjusted preteen Ivy (Susan Swift Read More

Blume in Love

Actors: George Segal, Susan Anspach, Kris Kristofferson, Marsha Mason, Shelley Winters

Synopsis: In the Los Angeles of yoga, therapy, and well-off liberals, a divorcé decides that his ex-wife is the love of his life in Paul Mazursky's romantic comedy. Beverly Hills divorce lawyer Stephen Blume (George Segal) becomes his own client when his social worker wife Nina (Susan Anspach) throws him Read More

Cinderella Liberty

Actors: Kirk Calloway, Marsha Mason, Eli Wallach, James Caan

Synopsis: A "Cinderella Liberty" is Navy jargon for a pass that runs out at midnight. Sailor John Baggs, Jr. (James Caan) has such a pass, and intends to make the most of it while his ship is docked in Seattle. He "wins" prostitute Maggie (Marsha Mason) in a pool game, but backs off at a "wham-bam-thank you Read More

Cyrano De Bergerac

Actors: Peter Donat, Marsha Mason

Synopsis: This version of the familiar tale Cyrano De Bergerac stars Peter Donat as the title character and Marsha Mason as the object of his desire. Cyrano is an intelligent, sensitive man who has been gifted with a poetic tongue and a great ability to sword fight. Sadly, he was also born with an Read More

The Man From Malpaso

Synopsis: This documentary about the life and career of Clint Eastwood includes exclusive footage and interviews with a number of his colleagues and co-stars, including Geneviève Bujold, Frances Fisher, Gene Hackman, and Marsha Mason. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide Read More

Dark Shadows: Episode 915

Synopsis: Leviathan child Michael (Michael Maitland) orders Barnabas (Jonathan Frid) to kill Julia. When Barnabas refuses, he is told that he will be returned to his vampire form unless he cooperates. As icing on the cake, Michael reveals that the Leviathans have a hostage -- Barnabas' long-lost love Read More

Hot Rod Hullabaloo

Synopsis: A young hot rodder, needing money to go to college, decides to participate in an illegal drag race. He knows he has the fastest car around and so does his competitor who is willing to stop at nothing to win the large pot and begins plotting to shooting the hero. When the good driver's best friend Read More

Mother O'Keeffe

Actors: Marsha Mason

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