The Burning Bed (1984)
October 8, 1984Release Date
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Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Farrah Fawcett
Francine Hughes
Paul Le Mat
Mickey Hughes
Richard Masur
Aryon Greydanus
Grace Zabriskie
Flossie Hughes
Penelope Milford
Gaby
Christa Denton
Christy, Age 12
James T. Callahan
Berlin Hughes
Gary Grubbs
District Attorney
David Andrews
Wimpy Hughes
James Hampton
Police Witness
Virgil Frye
Virg
Dixie K. Wade
Hazel Moran
Heather Rich
Christy, Age 6
Justin Gocke
Jimmy, Age 4
Elizabeth Lyn Fraser
Nicole
Ben Fuhrman
Henry Eckworth
Kimberley Dashiell
Ann
Fred D. Scott
Mr. Barlow
Patricia George
Female Deputy
Hoolihand Burke
Matron
Sherry McFarland
Ellen
Gilmer McCormick
Salesperson
Anna Pagan
Clair
Sonny Carl Davis
Asst. Prosecutor
Delana Michaels
Miss Connor
Greg Norberg
Ernest
Jeremy Ross
Judge Hotchkiss
Wayne Knight
Juror (uncredited)
David Ward
Courtroom Security Officer (uncredited)
David Friedman
Jimmy, Age 10
Steve Tisch
Executive Producer
Rose Leiman Goldemberg
Co-Producer / Teleplay
Charles Gross
Original Music Composer
Mary Ann Good
Set Decoration
Carol Schreder
Producer
Isidore Mankofsky
Director of Photography
Richard Fetterman
Editor
Michael A. Stevenson
Editor
Jon Avnet
Executive Producer
Herman F. Zimmerman
Art Direction
Robert Greenwald
Director
Faith McNulty
Novel
Richard Johnson
Special Effects
Mary West
Casting
Michael Hancock
Makeup Artist
Robert J. Doherty
Second Assistant Director
Chris Howell
Stunt Double
David E. Campbell
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
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This Movie Is About.
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The Burning Bed is a 1984 television drama film starring Farrah Fawcett, Paul Le Mat, and Richard Masur. Based on the 1980 non-fiction novel of the same name by Faith McNulty, it follows battered housewife Francine Hughes and her trial for the murder of her husband, James Berlin "Mickey" Hughes. Hughes set fire to the bed her husband was sleeping in at their Dansville, Michigan home on March 9, 1977 after thirteen years of physical domestic abuse at his hands.
The film was written by Rose Leiman Goldemberg and directed by Robert Greenwald. It aired on NBC on October 8, 1984. The movie premiered with a household share of 36.2, ranking it the seventeenth highest rated movie to air on network television and NBC's highest rated television movie.