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DOROTHEA G. PETRIE
Dorothea
Petrie has produced some of television's most distinguished, award winning
Specials and Movies of the Week. THE ECHO OF THUNDER, CAPTIVE HEART: THE JAMES
MINK STORY, FACE ON THE MILK CARTON, SECRETS, GETTING OUT, CRASH LANDING: THE
RESCUE OF FLIGHT 232, THE PERFECT TRIBUTE, CAROLINE?, FOXFIRE, LOVE IS NEVER
SILENT, ANGEL DUSTED, and ORPHAN TRAIN have all received numerous awards
including Emmy, Directors Guild of America, Writers Guild of America, Peabody,
Cine Ace, MacArthur Media Owl, Humanitas, Monte Carlo Film Festival, and
Christopher Awards. Underwritten by such sponsors as Hallmark Hall of Fame,
Proctor & Gamble, General Motors, and Dupont, these films garnered not only
critical acclaim but top ratings as well. In
October of 1999 the American Film Institute presented Ms. Petrie with the
Charles W. Fries Television Producer of the Year Award.
The
actors that Ms. Petrie has worked with include: Ellen Burstyn, Glenn Close,
James Coburn, Hume Cronyn, Judy Davis, Rebecca DeMornay, Lou Gossett Jr., Julie
Harris, Charlton Heston, Arliss Howard, Helen Hunt, Kate Nelligan, Jason Robards,
Maximilian Schell, Jessica Tandy, Denzel Washington, and Mare Winningham.
Ms.
Petrie began her career as an actress, and has worked in the industry as a
casting director and agent (both literary and theatrical). She began her
producing career with ORPHAN TRAIN, based on a novel she co-wrote for Dial
Press. Printed in many languages, it was chosen by Reader's Digest as one of
the twelve Best Novels of 1979. She produced ORPHAN TRAIN as a three hour
Special for CBS, and won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original
Story written for Television. She
produced the Hallmark Hall of Fame Production THE ECHO OF THUNDER, starring Judy
Davis, which was one of the highest rated pictures of the 1997-98 season.
Ms. Petrie has recently completed THE SONG OF THE LARK, an adaptation of
Willa Cather's novel that will launch the ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre's
American Collection. It is scheduled to be broadcast May 2 and 6, 2001.
All
of Ms. Petrie's films have been praised for their integrity and conscience,
and are personal reflections of her concern for an increased understanding of
the unique worth of the individual.
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