Family Album
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Family Album is the name of a Danielle Steel romance novel and of a TV movie based on it.
[edit] The novel
The novel came out in March 1985 published by Random House. The novel tells the story of Faye Price (later Thayer), since World War II to her death in present day. It tells her professional life as an actress in Hollywood's golden era to finally become one of the first female directors in Hollywood. But more important to her is her family life: from her marriage, the birth of her children, the separations and reconciliations with her husband, the struggles to raise her children, and the problems they go through once grown up until, in the end, they come through stronger from the ordeal.
[edit] The movie
Family Album was adapted into a TV movie in 1994 by NBC. Although the plot was simplified from the original novel, it retains the basic story.
[edit] Cast
- Jaclyn Smith - Faye Price Thayer, actress, director, wife and mother.
- Michael Ontkean - Ward Thayer, her husband, a rich heir who loses his money but later recovers it.
- Joe Flanigan - Lionel Thayer, her oldest son, a photographer who later comes out as homosexual.
- Kristin Minter - Valerie Thayer, her oldest daughter, who later also becomes an actress.
- Leslie Horan - Anne Thayer O'Hara, her youngest daughter, who after giving up her first child for adoption, falls in love with her best friend's father.
- Brian Krause - Greg Thayer, her second son, who dies in Vietnam.
- Tom Mason - Bill O'Hara, Anne's husband.
- Joel Gretsch - John, Greg's best friend who later becomes Lionel's lover, until he dies in a car accident.
- Paul Satterfield - Paul Steel, an actor who gives Lionel good advice once and, years later, becomes his second lover.
