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Take My Advice: The Ann and Abby Story

Jul 19, 1999 · 1h 30m
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Comedy
Drama
TV Movie

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Biography of feuding advice columnist twins, Ann Landers and Abby Van Buren, starts with their early lives in Sioux City, Iowa when they were known as Esther and Pauline through their double wedding and follows them into their columnist successes. However, much of the film also concentrates on their personal and professional feuds that ran the course of their lives. Written by John Sacksteder

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CAST

Wendie Malick
Ann Landers / Abigail Van Buren
Robert Desiderio
Mort
Kip Gilman
Jules (as Kenneth David Gilman)
Michelle Duffy
Grown Margo
David Groh
Abe
Tyler Gannon
Young Margo
Joann Johnson
Rebecca
Karen Johnson-Miller
Beauty parlor woman #1
Directed by Alan Metzger

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Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Hearst Entertainment Productions, Freyda Rothstein Productions, Lifetime
Country
US

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