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True Women
True Women
Directed by Karen Arthur
Produced by Craig Anderson
Terence A. Donnelly
Christopher Lofton
Lynn Raynor
Written by Janice Woods Windle
Christopher Lofton
Starring Dana Delany
Annabeth Gish
Angelina Jolie
Julie Carmen
Rachael Leigh Cook
Music by Bruce Broughton
Cinematography Tom Neuwirth
Edited by Corky Ehlers
Distributed by Hallmark Entertainment
Release dates 18 May 1997
Running time 170 minutes
Country United States
Language English
True Women is a 1997 CBS miniseries based on the 1993 novel by Janice Woods Windle directed by Karen Arthur,
starring Dana Delany, Annabeth Gish, Angelina Jolie, Julie Carmen, Tina Majorino and Rachael Leigh Cook. The
series covers five decades, from the Texas Revolution through Indian uprisings and the Civil War to the early stages
of the women's suffrage movement.
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Plot summary
The story starts with young Euphemia Texas Ashby (Tina Majorino) and her older sister Sara McClure (Dana
Delany). When Euphemia gets back to the house from picking flowers she finds out that Sam Houston is coming to
the house. Santa Anna is on his way so they must head east in the Runaway Scrape. While they attempt to cross a
river Sara suffers from a miscarriage while her young son Little Johnnie dies in Euphemia's arms. Many other young
and old Texans die and Euphemia is almost lost in a sea of graves. After a month and a week, Sam Houston defeats
Santa Anna's army and Texas is reborn as the Republic of Texas. They now live in a new home with their horses.
Their sisters Fannie and Jane Isabella come to live with them after their father dies at sea. They are very different
from Sara and Phemie (Annabeth Gish) and must adapt to their new brutal life.
One year later, Sarah survives an encounter with Tarantula (Michael Greyeyes), a Comanche warrior, and his band
of Comanches. Later, Euphemia's close friend Matilda "Maddie" Lockhart (Anne Tremko) is abducted by the
Comanches and only later released. When given back, the Texans discover that she was brutally tortured, with the
right side of her face disfigured by burn scars; the Comanche repeatedly awakened her by placing burning coals on
her face. Maddie is bloody and shows signs of beating everywhere. She never fully recovers from her time with the
Indians.
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Euphemia is now sixteen and almost gets attacked by a panther when William King (Matthew Glave), a boy who she
dreams about frequently, saves her. They continue to talk every day for the next five years and then get married.
Sara's own husband dies in battle, and she gets remarried to a musician. Euphemia has a few children with William
while they live happily together with the slave Tildy (Khadijah Karriem). They have a few horses, including one
called Dancer. Euphemia meets Tarantula once again at a show (he is one of the actors) and since he is walking far
for an old man, she gives him Dancer, her best horse. He gives her the name "Brave Squaw Child". This is the end of
Euphemia's life in the book.
Now we meet Georgia Lawshe Woods (Angelina Jolie) as she falls in love with a doctor at the age of fifteen and has
children years later. Before all that her parents, Julie Carmen and Michael York want to leave Georgia because
Cherokee, Georgia's mother, is part Creek Indian, and they were being driven out. They wanted to leave before they
were forced to.
Georgia is fifteen and at Swann Lake when a rogue goose attacks her and Colonial Doctor Peter Woods (Jeffrey
Nordling) tends to her wounds. She finds herself falling in love with this man and they get married the same year.
They have five or four children a few years later and head to Texas where things will be better. Along the way
Georgia has doubts but Peter wants to keep going. They live in Texas for a while but find out the river water is
contaminated, which leads to many deaths from cholera. They move again, and Georgia and Euphemia meet when
Sam Houston keeps them together. There is a bit more to Georgia's life, and then it switches to Bettie Moss.
Cast
Dana Delany as Sarah McClure
Annabeth Gish as Euphemia Ashby
Angelina Jolie as Georgia Virginia Lawshe Woods
Tina Majorino as Young Euphemia Ashby
Rachael Leigh Cook as Young Georgia Lawshe
Michael York as Lewis Lawshe
Jeffrey Nordling as Dr. Peter Woods
Salli Richardson-Whitfield as Martha
Tony Todd as Ed Tom
Michael Greyeyes as Tarantula
Julie Carmen as Cherokee Lawshe
John Schneider as Sam Houston
Powers Boothe as Bartlett McClure
Charles S. Dutton as Josiah
Matthew Glave as William King
Khadijah Karriem as Tildy
Reed Frerichs as Travis McClure
Miles Fisher as Young Travis McClure
Mona Lee Fultz as Ester Lockhart
Haylie Duff as Extra (uncredited)
Hilary Duff as Extra (uncredited)
Shannon Woodward as Young Cherokee Woods (uncredited)
Terrence Mann as Captain Haller
Kevin Page as Soldier
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Awards
1997 Nominated Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Special Bruce
Broughton (composer)
1998 Won Lone Star Film & Television Awards for Best Actress Dana Delany
1998 Nominated ALMA Awards for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Made-for-Television Movie or
Mini-Series in a Crossover Role Julie Carmen
References
[1] http:/ / www. tcm. com/ tcmdb/ title/ 475737/ True-Women/
External links
True Women (http:/ / www. imdb. com/ title/ tt0118499/ ) at the Internet Movie Database
True Women (http:/ / www. allmovie. com/ movie/ v178298) at AllMovie
True Women (http:/ / tcmdb. com/ title/ title. jsp?stid=475737) at the TCM Movie Database
Article Sources and Contributors
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Article Sources and Contributors
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