The Girls of Huntington House (1973) Sissy Spacek, Mercedes McCambridge
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- Опубліковано 25 жов 2019
- The Girls of Huntington House is a 1973 television film directed by Alf Kjellin. The film is based on the 1972 novel of the same name written by Blossom Elfman.
About film:
"Anne Baldwin arrives at Huntington House, a maternity home for pregnant minors. The school's principal Doris McKenzie is initially reluctant to hire Baldwin, because she has no degree. In class, Baldwin soon finds out she is unable to get through to the teens, of whom most are rebellious and aggressive. She constantly clashes with the school's newest student, 17-year-old Sara. Sara has been forced by her parents to enter the home and has been assigned the roommate of Gail, a model student who has a snobbish, dominant mother. Sara feels Baldwin is too old-fashioned and too introverted, and does not know the meaning of love.
Inspired by Sara's attempts to make her open up, Baldwin introduces a more personal, social teaching structure. From this point, she bonds with several students, including Marilyn, who gives birth to a baby. Following a fight, Sara is fed up with Huntington House and leaves. Baldwin tries to stop her, but this results in a confrontation, during which Baldwin slaps Sara. During her absence, Baldwin decides not to report her to the authorities and after Sara's return, they become friends.
Nevertheless, Sara's attitude has become worse, having become depressed and constantly announcing she will give up her baby immediately after its birth. Baldwin knows that, secretly, Sara want to keep the baby, but she is pressured by her parents to give it up. On graduation day, Gail is reluctantly taken home by her vicious mother, who feels Gail is not treated the proper way at Huntington House. Sara announces she will not give up the baby, and, encouraged by Baldwin, leaves with her boyfriend Sandy instead. Baldwin is also inspired to follow her heart and admits to her romantic feelings for widower Sam Dutton, to whom she finally commits."
Actors:
Shirley Jones as Anne Baldwin
Mercedes McCambridge as Doris McKenzie
Pamela Sue Martin as Gail Dorn
William Windom as Sam Dutton
Sissy Spacek as Sara
Katherine MacGregor as Rose Beckwith - Фільми й анімація
I was her once. I married my baby father, and everyone said it would not work. To young babies having babies, 47 years now. God was good and I am glad I married him. Been blessed. All those who said not to have been divorced and married some several times. I married a winner. Peace!
My husband & I never had any children by choice because of my Mental illness. But, this movie was so emotional for me. Shirley Jones & Sissy Spaceck did an amazing acting job in this movie.
And your writing skills are just as bad as the writing skills of the girls in the movie. 😂
Stay in school, kids. Get your education BEFORE having babies!
That's awesome. Congratulations on having such a long marriage. Many times it doesn't work when people get married young but there are couples who DO stand the test of time! You are proof of that. One of my dear friends got pregnant at 17. She and hubby got married and had the baby at age 18. She turns 66 this month and in October they will celebrate their 48th anniversary. They are the cutest thing ever because I think they are MORE in love now than when they first got together. They still flirt with each other, etc. Last week I was at their house for a 4th of July cookout. We all had been out on the patio and I went into the house to find my friend and ask her if she wanted us to fire up the grill and start cooking. There she and her hubby were, slow dancing together in the kitchen. 🥰. I jokingly said "Get a room, you two!"😆.
They have a daughter, 3 sons and several grandkids.
Thanks for the free movie
I was lucky too. 30yrs and now a widow. I hate the pressure and what we do because of society. I definitely definitely was and still am a stubborn independent blunt woman. Those attributes are not acceptable then or now. 😊I still live my life in God's grace. Glad you have a wonderful marriage 😊
I adore Sissy, I believe she is one of the best actress’s of our time! She somehow makes you believe in the character she’s playing, she understands them so deeply she helps you understand them! You are totally willing to suspend disbelief.
This what she did when played Carrie' character. It was so real, so well acted that it wasn't like I watched an actress playing a fictional character but a real person. Like Carrie was really real.
The best actress's what? You used the possessive, so what is it that is owned by the actress?
I AM SCREAMING !!!!!! This was one of my favorite movies from the 70s. I looked for this on youtube before but gave up. Then, today, I was scanning for old movies to watch and found this. THANK YOU !!!!!
Ha, ha!! Same here!! I had just managed to get out of a home like Huntington House, only it was so much worse than the one in this movie...and then, just a few months later, "The Girls of Huntington House" came out, and when I looked for this movie on UA-cam, it was over forty years later, and I couldn't remember the name of the film, and I was frantic!!! I always hated the way "those girls" were always treated...even in the hospital...like we were all just stupid whores.
This is one of my all-time favorite movies!!! So glad I found it as well!!! 😊
@@1955annemarie I'm glad you found it too!!!😀
@@shrekipep1, aww... Thanks🤗
I'm just picking this at random but shirley jones and sissy spacek are sure to be a good team
❤
An amazing movie for a 60 year old who married at 15, had a beautiful son nearly a year to the day of our 1st year wedding anniversary that grew into an amazing young man, grounded by a grandmother's legacy and foundation of loving the Lord with all her heart and passed that to her son, my son's father. Praise God for His undying love and miracles💖🙏💖✝️
Beautiful story you have, love it,...wished I had a story like yours, as a Christian I'm waiting to start my life over again with a man on the otherside of the world,...who is waiting upon, his vista's visa, ...that was sent to immigration in my land of where he is comming to,...which was 14th November 2023, he submitted the visitors viza.
Please pray for me,... I've had no real happiness in my life, as growing up, as spose to have been in love, with two marriages that went really bad,...I pray that God will bless me in all His Good timing.
Please & thankyou, 😢😅😊❤.
Thankyou.
How did you get married at 15? I'm 60 and I don't know of any laws that would allow that...other than certain Southern states that would allow it. I was married young, but legally after I graduated HS and was over 18. I can't imagine any parent signing off on marrying at 15...how would one support themselves? Not old enough to have even a GED for a job, must less a HS diploma!
@@angeladay7544 Wow, are you ignorant! Have you ever heard of a 'Catfish'? They pray upon ignorant people that claim to be 'Christian'...they just want a visa and money. You can't spell well so I am assuming education is a minimum. Let me guess; he is coming from Nigeria Catfish capital]., Turkey or another Middle Eastern country [they are Muslim and will cater to Christians but will control women]. A 'visitors visa' is just that...three months and no rights. You quote Nov 2023, yet wrote this 8 days ago, so that;s a conflict. I hope you get counseling and help, and find someone to protect your naivete' as the path you are on with this man will go terribly, terribly wrong...
A lot of these movies I haven't seen in years, like this one. Sissy Spacek was so good in these early years; and it's amazing how she could still play a teenager in Coal Miner's Daughter!
I was pregnant.unmarried when this came out ,still in high school and my world was upended my mother tried to putme in a home just like this. But thankfully I turned 18 just a month after I found out and chose to keep baby. Boyfriend was a year younger but we married . It was not easy we worked hard to stay together. Everyone betting we'd lose. We probably would still be married but we lost our third child and we didn't communicate well. But we had 13 years of marriage together, he found someone else or so he thought. I found someone else who loved my kids and we had more! 35 years now! Best thing is I'm close to first husband, we share kids,grandkids and great grand kids, birthdays, holidays. I'm so happy he is doing well, and so am I . If you really love someone fight to keep it,but have fun too! Some days you have to do everything somedays they do, just keep going. Sissy is best Actress ever, she can carry you full circle,she out acted shirley Jones in this one and thats saying something
SAME THING HERE , BEEN THERE DONE THAT TOO , BUT I RAISED MY OWN SONS ON MY OWN , NOBODY HELPED ME NOT EVEN THE FATHER OF MY KIDS , I DID WHAT I HAD TO DO AND I DON'T REALLY REGRET IT ONE BIT , MY KIDS ARE MY WORLD 🎉🎉❤❤😊😊 AND NOW I'M A GRANDMA OF 2 BEAUTIFUL GIRLS ❤️ ❤🎉🎉🎉🎉😊😊
Sissy Spacek was 24 years old in this movie. She looks so much younger!
Sissy was always very thin. That's why she always looked like a teenager.
Sissy was 27 when she played Carrie, three years after this movie. She was petite and had very youthful facial features.
Sissy was just special from the beginning. She has played the part of the innocent many times over her long career but she always goes deep in to the character to find whatever lurks there. Sometimes it is strength or vulnerability or whatever, but this actress just always claims the inner part of a character.
Loved her as lorreta lynn
She was great in an episode in the Walton's where I believe, John-Boy delivered her baby then!
This was a really nice movie. I'm 52 now, and I remember the 70's as being an awesome time. The music, the clothes the tv shows and movies. Life was so much better back in the day. Think of all the really weird and insane things that are taking place now in 2020. I don't have tv, so thank you for sharing this movie on UA-cam 😆
Renee from California
Yes, I agree. Also, Sally Field was in a movie in the 70s called "Maybe I'll Come Home In The Spring." I think you would like it.
I just checked, and that movie is on UA-cam too.
@@MicheleMJJ Thank you so much for that🤣 I will check it out!
In history, the 'future has always been better than the past'. At the age of 57, I remember much more weirdness and insanity from the days you refer to than I could see in the present. We all just have a strong tendency to glorify the past and let the subconscious mind gloss over and forget what we rather prefer not to remember. I have hundreds of lovely memories of when I was young - and simultaneously wouldn't like to experience everything I then went through again. The world of the 70s would appear backward and appalling to you in many aspects if you'd travel back to it now and saw it as it really was.
@@klausgh I agree. I had the worst childhood. I wouldn't go back for all of the money in the world, trust me. It's a miracle that I survived.
That was great. I loved Pamela Sue Martin as a kid. I was about 9 when I saw her in the Poseidon Adventure in about 1973 in the cheep theature after it had been out for some time. She was 18 in that movie and I had a huge crush on her, my friend had a crush on Carol Lynly, lol. I was looking at her on Google and I saw this movie, with Sissy Spacek!!! Had to watch and I loved it! Shirley Jones was great! Love seeing them all young again. William Windom is always good too. Great Saturday afternoon movie. I'll have to thank Pamela Sue Martin for this one, and my crazy childhood crush, lol. Thanks so much for posting, I felt young again. And who doesn't love the amazing force of nature Sissy Spacek? Goes without saying.
The 70’s were awesome. I saw “Maybe I’ll Come Home in the Spring” back in the 70’s when it came out, really good movie.
Yes, they both are.
I didn't see them when they came out in the theaters ; way too young then.
beverly ledbetter I wish I could find the dvd
I'm 76!! Remember all the 60's. ...70..80..90...each era had its own beauty
I liked that film a lot. This one was sort of like it "Go Ask Alice". ua-cam.com/video/CBxT53r2AlU/v-deo.html.
Go Ask Alice was also good...ua-cam.com/video/CBxT53r2AlU/v-deo.html
Jun 30,2024. Watching it tonight 😊
Great movie and great subject! I've always loved Sissy Spacek!
Even when Sissy plays the "mean" person, she still turns out sweet in the end. It seems that she will always touch you emotionally in a positive way in each movie she's in; and that's why I like her :)
As a fan of Schuyler Fisk let me tell you the apple didn't fall far from the tree.
When times were simple...
And ppl really cared about others & helping them...& there was a place for unwed pregnant moms to go!
Now ppl just run the opposite direction!
Great flicks, tv, music, concerts...
And Flicks were worth watchin!
Wow what a cast too...
Mrs Partridge 😆 SJ, Sissy Spacek at 24, William Windom, Pamela Sue Martin, Helen Page, Katherine MacGovern, Mercedes McCambridge, etc
Far n few do they make this caliber of movie w this caliber of cast too!
Thx for the load...great Flick ! ! !
There are still places like that that help young pregnant women.
And just to say, any time period has their set of problems that people forget about, that lead others to romanticize and be nostalgic about. It's better to think about now and what can be the future, rather than what has long since used to be.
Those mother baby homes was shit back then. They treated the girls like shit some even abused them.
@@kaleahcollins4567now they kill the baby these days 😢
I love Sissy! Great actress! Have loved her since Carrie! But somehow didn't see this one! Glad I found it! Thank you!
I wasn't allowed to watch this on the first run. I was 10.
All of my budding fangirl stars in one place, including my favorite TV mom, Shirley Jones Partridge.
Paul Williams songs...one of the few good things about the 70s
Is a very beautiful song
I saw this Movie of the Week when it first ran on TV, and I never forgot it (except the title). I was a teen myself. I was glad to stumble across it again, so thank you.
It's probably difficult for people now to relate to this attitude toward teen pregnancy -- sending the girls away and encouraging them to give away their babies. I had a friend this happened to; her father made the decision. But many years later, her daughter came looking for her. Other friends got married and kept their babies. This was probably the last generation that did this to girls (exiled in disgrace and pressed into adoption).
I was highly pressured by planned parenthood it’s what it was called back then to have an abortion. I couldn’t get out of that place fast enough 😳
Sissy Spacek was so precious and exquisite in her youth. You just wanted to reach into your screen, wrap your arms and hold her until she was perfectly safe from everything that worried her. She’s still very beautiful today and she’s an extremely accomplished actress. Yes I called her an actress.
She’s Worth It. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I always just wanted to smack her.
Agreed she’s beautiful and great actress
Really she was 27 when she was in Carrie 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Sissy is one of the best actors this country has ever churned out. Even in this TV movie she stands out. 👍
Good movie I like these clean caring movies from back in the day 👍
Thanks for putting this on “memories” I had it on video I taped from the TV. Sent it to my Sis 😂😂😂👍🏼
OMG!!!! I had no idea this was a TV movie. One of my FAVORITE books in elementary school. I still have a very beaten up copy. Fun fact: the author is Danny Elfman's mom.
I recall seeing this on ABC when I was in junior high, so it must have been an encore airing; the info says that it originally aired in February 1973 and I began jh in September of that year. I remember the line "I may not know what love is, but I know what love DOES!"
My mother was the daughter of alcoholics. She gave birth to me at 16 and wasn't remotely equipped with being a mother. I'm 57 and a college graduate, wife, mother of 3 adult children. More people should choose life!
I love all these old movies I was just a baby whenthis came out but I got to tell you I still love these things these movies my mom and I used to watch all shows and movies together and go back into town and watch em allthe masked no freaking profanity no nudity just movies movies back in our trash.
I wasn’t even alive when this aired. lol. So you’ve got one up on me! I wasn’t born until a year later
I really enjoyed this movie I too was one of those girls and I kept my baby that my mother tried to give away I got my baby girl and moved out at the age of 15
How are your baby nowadays? 😊❤
Love an oldie....those girls are my age, Pamela Sue, Sissi....great bunch all of them .... Don't make'em like they used to 👍💝💓💐💗
U mean the age u r now or then?
@Tonago Lmao.
Idiot
@Tonago Sounds like you're obsessed. Go back off in your own jack yard. 🙄
@Tonago Yep, you are.
Sissy birthday: 12/25/49.
* Christmas Baby..
*Married in '74, still married
*She's 2 awards from being an EGOT
Needs a Tony & Grammy and
. She has addt'l awards like Bafta
*5'2" tiny!
*talented singer, sang in Coal Miners Daughter, her Oscar performance
God help! Most of them are babies themselves. Not an ounce of maturity. Just waiting to give birth and pass it off so in a few weeks they are up and running breeding another one. I was pregnant at 16 and got married and kept my baby. The marriage was horrible but I was totally in love with my child. Still am--- even though she passed at age 12 of cancer. God bless her soul.
I am so sorry about your child! How heartbreaking! I do hope you got out of the bad marriage though and were able to make a life for yourself.
my grandmother was a nurse in a Catholic maternity hospital in the twenties in Lackawanna, NY
I loved Paul Williams voice. I believe he was the one singing.
It seems like he sang in just about everything in the 70’s. I sure miss that decade !!!
Found footage of Carrie three years before her telekinesis sets in.
Loved it ! Thank you 🙏
Thankyou for this great movie ❤I've only seen it once before and so happy to watch it again with a line up of superb actors 😀 ❤❤❤❤🇦🇺🇦🇺
Wow. I never knew about this movie. Sissy did this in 73, and then Carrie in 76. Could tell both were done close in years. Shirley Jones looks like she just stepped off the set of the Partridge Family
Excellent movie! Will watch again, thank you for upload!
I love, Shirley Jones, that acted in the Patridge Family who was the mother to the eldest son, my minds gone blank right now.❤.
She was married to Ted Cassidy and David Cassidy was her stepson.
Mercedes McCambridge - she voiced the devil for Linda Blair in The Exorcist.
She also played in the movie Giant, with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean.
Rose Beckwith is played by Mrs Oleson from Little House on the Prairie!
I thought she looked familiar, thanks!
@jade ac Yes, and she played Rose Beckwith in The Girls of Huntington House!
Just a year before the show started
I've never seen this movie B4
Thanks for sharing,!!!
Such a beautiful movie. So much to learn. Thank you very much.
i like sissy spacek in everything she does. this is the youngest of her that i've ever seen
I'm pretty sure the first movie I saw her in was called Catherine. I'll have to look it up whether it was before or after this one.
I didn't know she did anything before Carrie. Don't remember this movie, strange bunch. Weird concept know adays, there was a home for wayward girls in a town near me growing up.
I feel the same. I'll watch any movie Sissy Spacek is in. I think she's a great actress.
Sissy has managed to age gracefully and with astonishing beauty. Lovely long hair and little impish face virtually the same since 1970. She elevates every project shes part of, she's still doing it right.
Lisa Mathews Why so snarky? I didn't say she hadn't been in anything before Carrie, I just wasn't aware of her body of work previous to said movie.
I was 2 I totally missed this. 😢
This is such a beautiful piece of art! Thank you for sharing with everybody!
Love you Sissy Spacek
Paul Williams had such a beautiful, inspiring singing voice.
Agreed!
I've always loved his songs
I was just thinking how annoying his voice was!!!! Songwriting was his talent
This was a favorite movie of mine in my teens.
Thank u for putting this movie 🎥👍
Both the teacher Baldwin and her ex bf both played in the Star Trek TOS series in the episode Metamorphosis as Miss Hedford, and as Cochrane. 😂
What a great movie. Wish there was more movies like this in the world ❤
Iconic...thanku ❤
I can’t wait to watch it!! ❤❤!
Beautiful Sisssy Spacek. Brilliant actress
What a delightful movie,,, oh the perils, the dramas of teenage pregnancy.
Which are still going on today.
Theres and episode of long lost family that is something similar to this situation with Sara. It was 1971 she was 19 and wanted to be a musician . well good thing she found her lil boy 38 years later . SHE became a musician but never married nor had more kids
This is a good movie! I haven't seen it for a long time!
Awesome old movie 👏😎
Paul Williams just nails any movie theme song!!
Didn't know Carrie and Pazuzu starred in the same movie!
It was nice when they had this kind of help for pregnant women in need but now they just kill the babies. We have really progressed. :(
Angela Mergist are you serious or just being sarcastic?? That is NOT funny in any levels. Your talking about a new life
@@AnthonyWilliams-li5mz I am prolife.
I read the book when I was in the sixth grade over 40 years ago!! Movie is just as good as the book!! Brings back school memories!
@Regina St. John Lmao
@Regina St. John From the 'moment of conception' it's only a human being which could possibly be murdered for some or other philosopher who lives alone on a hill - or for a religious fanatic.
Y they have a play music? Can’t hear them talking!!!?🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🙏
Wow! Shirley Jones before The Partridge Family. It's going to be a good movie with sissy and her in it
If you liked this and Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring, you might like The Death of Richie. I watched it with my parents - the only time ever, probably - and my dad said, "It was just like our house. " Except I'm a girl. I recently saw it on UA-cam. Great movie
Isn't that Paul Williams singing the ending song ? I remember this , Sissy Spacek must used this to audition for "Coal Miners' Daughter? Recognized Pamela Sue Martin who played Falon Colby
And Nancy Drew
Coal miners daughter was a good movie!
Sarah is rather annoying. She has opinions on everything and criticises other people for how they live their lives, but there she is in the teenage maternity home! What makes her think she's doing so well? Actually I think she's a bully the way she goes on at the teacher.
Just three years before she played the role of Carrie White in Carrie, Sissy Spacek played the role of Sarah in this wonderful TV movie
❤ At 14:06, as the girls filed out of class, I thought, "That's a lot of hormones gone wild. Those poor ladies looking out for these girls are more than saints ~ they're angels ❤
been looking for this, thanks :)
Same!
i was three when this movie came out
how dare they not respect MRS. RODRIGUEZ they call everyone else by their proper names but call her Rodriguez
Such a good movie 😊
Shirley ! And Katherine Mac gregor! Love it. ❤️❤️❤️
Shirley from the Partridge Family, the new teacher? Just might be....sure is, can hear it in her voice....:)
I never seen that television show
Cool to see "Mrs.Whipple" and "Mrs.Olsen" from Little House on the Prairie in this movie!😃
She was already a stepmother of one son and mother to her other three sons with Jack Cassidy.
She was the step mother of David Cassidy!
And the mother of Shaun Cassidy 😊
Paul Williams is from my home town! Lucasville, Ohio!
Man this is crazy my mom was pregnant with me in 1973
She said it was like that she was sent ro a special school when she was 7 months
Sissy looked SO MUCH like Schuyler in this movie!
Great movie
A very good at movie
After school special or movie of the week? Definitely before Carrie!
Movie of the week. I was a senior in high school and LOVED this movie.
Love Sissy ❤
I ❤ Schuyler.
In 1973 my sisters were 15 and 12. I was 8, but remember the whole era like it was yesterday...sometimes more than 30 years ago feeling like yesterday.
Mercedes McCambridge always seemed so butch in her movie roles, but it was a lacking element in Hollywood. Her son
John Lawrence Fifield filled headlines in 1987 for murdering his family. A youtuber did a video on it and can be seen when you Google his name.
Ha, ha! In 1972, it was FOB. Now, it's "baby daddy".
Good movie
Still unresolved...
The ladies who played "Carrie" and "Mrs Oleson" in one film? I need to watch it even tho the plot seems boring to me. Too bad its not a horror film!
Not to mention Commodore Decker.
@@catlady8324 who?
@@KittyChanel You’re going to have to learn to do a Google search so you can figure things out on your own. I’m not always going to be there to answer all your questions.
Clue: William Windom in Star Trek.
Shirley partridge was pissed!
Yep! Can’t picture her character in partridge family slapping someone! lol. I was surprised though that she wasn’t even reprimanded for it. Even then teachers could have been fired for that.
Mercedes is the voice of the demon in the Exorcist
I’m sure that being a teenager mom is hard having to choose between giving the baby up for adoption/ foster home hoping that the baby will be alright! Jennydebrier
I'm surprised at how bad this movie is. I finally found a Sissy Spacek movie that isn't any good!
Trading Mom wasn't good
Paul Williams 👌🏻
I'm pretty sure this was a tv pilot turned into a tv movie. The special guest star and theme song hint at it.
It was a TV movie of the week.
All that honking just so she could park in front of the door instead of where she was... then she parks crooked. -_-
Crookedly 😂
Grávida gravidez 👶🤰🤱
So everyone is mooning over Sissy Spacek and ignoring LEGEND Shirley Jones?? Oklahoma?? Partridge Family? Sissy was a stringy haired nobody then...Shirley could sing like a goddess and act! smh....
❤💫
She was teaching , some of them just didn't want to listen