Charleston Summary
Director: Karen Arthur
Genres: Drama
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Charleston is a brazen rip-off of Gone with the Wind which premiered over NBC on January 15, 1979--one month before CBS' planned telecast of Wind. Delta_Burke, who was an unknown in 1979, very nearly remained that way in the role of post-Civil War Southern belle Stella. As Stella fiddle-dee-dees around in an effort to raise the tax money to maintain her mansion, her faithful ex-slave Minerva (Lynne_Moody) runs the household with an iron hand (that must hurt). Also lurking about is Stella's cousin Valerie (Patricia_Pearcy), who squanders her own savings in an effort to find her missing husband. This is the sort of film in which the aggressively urbanized actor Mandy_Pantinkin plays a corn-fed character named Beaudine Croft. Martha_Scott, the only "name" actor in Charleston, is wasted in a peripheral role as Stella's mom. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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