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Take My Advice:  The Ann and Abby Story
Take My Advice:  The Ann and Abby Story
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  2. Take My Advice: The Ann and Abby Story

Take My Advice: The Ann and Abby Story

1999
1h 30m
Comedy
Drama
TV Movie

Status

Released

Release

1999

Runtime

1h 30m

Where to Watch

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Storyline

Biography of feuding advice columnist twins, Ann Landers and Abby Van Buren, starts with their early lives in Sioux City, Iowa when they were known as Esther and Pauline through their double wedding and follows them into their columnist successes. However, much of the film also concentrates on their personal and professional feuds that ran the course of their lives. Written by John Sacksteder

Score Distribution

Details

Status
Released
Runtime
1h 30m
Jul 19, 1999
Languages
English
Director
Alan Metzger
Production
Hearst Entertainment Productions
Hearst Entertainment Productions
Freyda Rothstein Productions
Freyda Rothstein Productions
Lifetime
Lifetime
Production Countries
United States of America

Top Cast

16 Cast Members

Wendie Malick

Wendie Malick

Ann Landers / Abigail Van Buren

Robert Desiderio

Robert Desiderio

Mort

Kip Gilman

Kip Gilman

Jules (as Kenneth David Gilman)

Michelle Duffy

Grown Margo

David Groh

David Groh

Abe

Tyler Gannon

Young Margo

Joann Johnson

Rebecca

Karen Johnson-Miller

Beauty parlor woman #1

Angela Nicole Babb

Beauty parlor woman #2

Raissa Fleming

Beauty parlor woman #3

Tobias Anderson

Dean Evans

George Fosgate

Cardinal Ryan

Ted Roisum

Vatican Bishop

Robert D. Heath Jr.

Robert D. Heath Jr.

John Daly

Dennis Bateman

Dennis Bateman

Edward R. Murrow

Carol Jones

Dais speaker

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