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Kentucky Woman is a 1983 American made-for-television drama film, directed by Walter Doniger, starring Cheryl Ladd, Ned Beatty and Peter Weller. Filmed in Paintsville, Kentucky, and at a coal mine in Martin County, Kentucky at Martin County Coal Corporation (Massey Energy).
- Drama
Jan 11, 1983 · Kentucky Woman: Directed by Walter Doniger. With Cheryl Ladd, Ned Beatty, Philip Levien, Sandy McPeak. A woman faces harassment and humiliation when she goes to work as a coal miner to support her small son and ailing dad.
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- Drama
- Walter Doniger
- 1983-01-11
Maggie Telford (Cheryl Ladd) is a single mother working as a waitress in a small Kentucky town. She gets by with the help of her father, Luke (Ned Beatty), a coal miner. But a life in the mines...
- Drama
- Cheryl Ladd, Ned Beatty, Phillip Levien
- Walter Doniger
To support her ailing coal miner father disabled with black lung disease, and her young son, a divorcee leaves her low-paying job as a waitress in the local diner to seek employment in the mines and struggles to retain her dignity while encountering harassment, humiliation, a near rape -- and...
- Walter Doniger
- Cheryl Ladd
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Made for television, Kentucky Woman found Ladd as a poverty-stricken waitress who becomes a coal miner, despite male opposition, damp boots and squealing rats. She does this to support her fatherless son and her miner dad (Ned Beatty), who is incapacitated by black lung disease.
