I saw this mini series years ago but have forgotten the ending and can't seem to get hold of the series now. (Maybe I should check the book.) Could someone please enlighten me? I gather (have forgotten details) that Mike is the prosecutor in some sort of court case against Marianne. Please explain briefly. And do the two get together in the end? Please say YES. I loved Mike!
shareBasically Miss Warren is convicted on whatever they brought her to court for yet her true love promises to take her kids and wait 4 her release.(insert tear here).Seriously this is 1 omy favorite movies of all time. Lesley Ann in +@ her most picturesque beauty in her 40's hats + hairstyles.
shareThanks very much for your info. I'm so glad Marianne & Mike get together in the end, even if she does go to prison for awhile. True love prevails! I have to try and watch this again. I love Leslie Anne Warren here too.
shareIn the movie she has to do jail time. While at the same time the man she really loves find out that the daughter she leave behind for him to take care of is his daughter. That would be the lawyer. I love this movie also. I loved the book. Great read. Has anybody been able to find this movie on dvd. very hard to find. Big fan of Warren.
shareMarianne is found guilty or promoting prostitution, and is sentenced to jail. Before she goes to jail she tells Mike about the child and leaves the child in his care, but she doesn't tell the child Mike is her father.
shareRemember when the birth certificate was entered as evidence. That's when Mike found out he was the father. His wife realized it as well! Nooooooooooot happy! Oops, just reread. You're right, Michelle doesn't know Mike is her dad. But LOVED the scene where he sees his name on the certificate!
I had recorded the movie when it originally aired and JUST FOUND IT last week. LOVED watching it again! Leslie is incredible!!!!
One of my favorite scenes is Marianne telling Ross' old man that there isn't a drop of his blood in Michelle's body! You go, girl!!!!
I've not seen it since it first aired 30 years ago, so forgive my faulty memory. Is this the one that at least hints at a lesbian affair, but one woman (for whatever reason) jumps (is pushed?) out of a highrise window? Or perhaps that's "The Besty" or perhaps something else? Like I said, it's been a long time. Thanks.
share79 PARK AVENUE is one of Robbins' best novels - I re-read it last year and finished it with tears in my eyes - once upon a time this man gave a damn about what he wrote, and he could make us cry. Then he got rich and famous and that was the end of that.
"I don't use a pen: I write with a goose quill dipped in venom!"---W. Lydecker
your memory is a little confused....
your thinking of the betsy and it was sir laurence oliviers(grandfather) gay son that bit the dust and robert duval sees his grandfather in bed with his mother(daughter in law) as a boy and never forgives his grandfather.... great movie....
79 park ave wasnt released on vhs....and only saw it twice on t.v.....great movie....would love to own it! been searching for it since it aired in ...1977
I recall that Hill Street Blues Veronica Hamel played Mike's wife.
shareI haven't seen the mini-series, but I've just read the book. Maryann Flood and her friend Evelyn from the "girls-school" do a porn show in which they get at it together in several Miami nightclubs, Evelyn being dark-haired and Marja/Mary/Maryann being a natural blonde. The public liked the contrast, apparently. This happens while Maryann is starting to go out with naive millionaire heir Gordon Paynter - I don't know how these scenes were presented on film, as I have said before I haven't seen the series, but there are some photographs from the show which are later used to blackmail Maryann further on.
One curious thing about my book. The picture on the front of 79 Park Avenue is not taken from this mini-series, but from another Lesley Ann Warren's films called Beulah Land. So strange! When I started to read the book, I thought that the Scarlett O'Hara kinda-costume didn't fit the setting and the time of the novel at all, the period between the world wars.