Told mostly in flashbacks, the film tells the story of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman, one of the greatest and probably most famous courtesans of the twentieth century. While not showing her childhood, first marriage to Winston Churchill's son, or most of her affairs, we do get to see her affair and eventual marriage to Broadway producer Leland Hayward, and then her marriage to politician Averell Harriman, with whom she had an affair while both were married to others in World War II. We also see her as ambassador to France during her last years, and her death in 1997. While some (mostly her lovers) adored her, others (mostly her son and her husbands' children) hated her.
October 12, 1998
ABC, Lifetime
10 people
Ann-Margret
Pamela Harriman
Acting
Mitchell Ryan
Averell Harriman
Acting
Gail Strickland
Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney
Acting
Natalie Radford
Pamela Harriman at 20
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John DeMita
Peter Duchin
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Susan Ruttan
Janet
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Sydney Walsh
Minnie Churchill
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Joan Severance
Paley
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Cynthia Harris
Kathleen
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Hal Landon Jr.
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