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The Polly Collection consists of two musical television movies, Polly (1989) and Polly: Comin' Home! (1990), which originally aired on NBC. Adapted from the classic novel Pollyanna, both films were directed and choreographed by Debbie Allen and feature Keshia Knight Pulliam and Phylicia Rashād in starring roles.
An musical adaptation of the book "Pollyanna" set in the 1950's in which an orphan tries to use gladness to unite the people in a small southern town.
Broadway style songs are used to tell this interesting story of an ingenious orphan who gets involved in matchmaking and striving for inter-racial understanding in 1956 Alabama.