The Girls of Huntington House (1973) Sissy Spacek, Mercedes McCambridge

The Girls of Huntington House is a 1973 television film directed by Alf Kjellin. The film is based on the 1972 novel of the same name written by Blossom Elfman.
About film:
"Anne Baldwin arrives at Huntington House, a maternity home for pregnant minors. The school's principal Doris McKenzie is initially reluctant to hire Baldwin, because she has no degree. In class, Baldwin soon finds out she is unable to get through to the teens, of whom most are rebellious and aggressive. She constantly clashes with the school's newest student, 17-year-old Sara. Sara has been forced by her parents to enter the home and has been assigned the roommate of Gail, a model student who has a snobbish, dominant mother. Sara feels Baldwin is too old-fashioned and too introverted, and does not know the meaning of love.
Inspired by Sara's attempts to make her open up, Baldwin introduces a more personal, social teaching structure. From this point, she bonds with several students, including Marilyn, who gives birth to a baby. Following a fight, Sara is fed up with Huntington House and leaves. Baldwin tries to stop her, but this results in a confrontation, during which Baldwin slaps Sara. During her absence, Baldwin decides not to report her to the authorities and after Sara's return, they become friends.
Nevertheless, Sara's attitude has become worse, having become depressed and constantly announcing she will give up her baby immediately after its birth. Baldwin knows that, secretly, Sara want to keep the baby, but she is pressured by her parents to give it up. On graduation day, Gail is reluctantly taken home by her vicious mother, who feels Gail is not treated the proper way at Huntington House. Sara announces she will not give up the baby, and, encouraged by Baldwin, leaves with her boyfriend Sandy instead. Baldwin is also inspired to follow her heart and admits to her romantic feelings for widower Sam Dutton, to whom she finally commits."
Actors:
Shirley Jones as Anne Baldwin
Mercedes McCambridge as Doris McKenzie
Pamela Sue Martin as Gail Dorn
William Windom as Sam Dutton
Sissy Spacek as Sara
Katherine MacGregor as Rose Beckwith

[@leem200]

I was her once. I married my baby father, and everyone said it would not work. To young babies having babies, 47 years now. God was good and I am glad I married him. Been blessed. All those who said not to have been divorced and married some several times. I married a winner. Peace!

[@lindaalvarez8855]

My husband & I never had any children by choice because of my Mental illness. But, this movie was so emotional for me. Shirley Jones & Sissy Spaceck did an amazing acting job in this movie.

[@WhatDoesMyChannelNameMean]

And your writing skills are just as bad as the writing skills of the girls in the movie. 😂 Stay in school, kids. Get your education BEFORE having babies!

[@deniece0821]

That's awesome. Congratulations on having such a long marriage. Many times it doesn't work when people get married young but there are couples who DO stand the test of time! You are proof of that. One of my dear friends got pregnant at 17. She and hubby got married and had the baby at age 18. She turns 66 this month and in October they will celebrate their 48th anniversary. They are the cutest thing ever because I think they are MORE in love now than when they first got together. They still flirt with each other, etc. Last week I was at their house for a 4th of July cookout. We all had been out on the patio and I went into the house to find my friend and ask her if she wanted us to fire up the grill and start cooking. There she and her hubby were, slow dancing together in the kitchen. 🥰. I jokingly said "Get a room, you two!"😆. They have a daughter, 3 sons and several grandkids.

[@arthurnorwood3121]

Thanks for the free movie

[@babble2leeza]

I was lucky too. 30yrs and now a widow. I hate the pressure and what we do because of society. I definitely definitely was and still am a stubborn independent blunt woman. Those attributes are not acceptable then or now. 😊I still live my life in God's grace. Glad you have a wonderful marriage 😊

[@Charlotte-bn4gp]

An amazing movie for a 60 year old who married at 15, had a beautiful son nearly a year to the day of our 1st year wedding anniversary that grew into an amazing young man, grounded by a grandmother's legacy and foundation of loving the Lord with all her heart and passed that to her son, my son's father. Praise God for His undying love and miracles💖🙏💖✝️

[@angeladay7544]

Beautiful story you have, love it,...wished I had a story like yours, as a Christian I'm waiting to start my life over again with a man on the otherside of the world,...who is waiting upon, his vista's visa, ...that was sent to immigration in my land of where he is comming to,...which was 14th November 2023, he submitted the visitors viza. Please pray for me,... I've had no real happiness in my life, as growing up, as spose to have been in love, with two marriages that went really bad,...I pray that God will bless me in all His Good timing. Please & thankyou, 😢😅😊❤.

[@angeladay7544]

Thankyou.

[@lisawentworth6831]

How did you get married at 15? I'm 60 and I don't know of any laws that would allow that...other than certain Southern states that would allow it. I was married young, but legally after I graduated HS and was over 18. I can't imagine any parent signing off on marrying at 15...how would one support themselves? Not old enough to have even a GED for a job, must less a HS diploma!

[@lisawentworth6831]

@@angeladay7544 Wow, are you ignorant! Have you ever heard of a 'Catfish'? They pray upon ignorant people that claim to be 'Christian'...they just want a visa and money. You can't spell well so I am assuming education is a minimum. Let me guess; he is coming from Nigeria Catfish capital]., Turkey or another Middle Eastern country [they are Muslim and will cater to Christians but will control women]. A 'visitors visa' is just that...three months and no rights. You quote Nov 2023, yet wrote this 8 days ago, so that;s a conflict. I hope you get counseling and help, and find someone to protect your naivete' as the path you are on with this man will go terribly, terribly wrong...

[@sarahholland2600]

​@@lisawentworth683115 is legally still a child: in civilised countries.

[@jennifermcdonald5432]

I adore Sissy, I believe she is one of the best actress’s of our time! She somehow makes you believe in the character she’s playing, she understands them so deeply she helps you understand them! You are totally willing to suspend disbelief.

[@angellopes9353]

This what she did when played Carrie' character. It was so real, so well acted that it wasn't like I watched an actress playing a fictional character but a real person. Like Carrie was really real.

[@WhatDoesMyChannelNameMean]

The best actress's what? You used the possessive, so what is it that is owned by the actress?

[@scootermom1791]

Well said! She's incredibly talented. She actually started out to be a singer, but when she auditioned for someone, they said they liked her but her style was too similar to someone else they were going to represent. That someone else was none other than Loretta Lynn! This is according to the trivia section from IMBD under her profile. It's funny how Loretta Lynn changed Sissy's career path and made it possible for her to play Loretta Lynn in Coalminer's Daughter years later. She's a wonderful actress; I haven't seen anything with her in it that I didn't like. 😊

[@jennifermcdonald5432]

@@scootermom1791 totally agree. My favourite movie with her in it is “Night Mother” a very stark movie, even depressing but showcases her talent brilliantly. I actually love the movie as I can relate to it greatly, but others find it a little depressing.

[@scootermom1791]

@@jennifermcdonald5432 my favorite next to "Coalminer's Daughter" is "A Place for Annie" where she adopted a baby girl who was infected with HIV. My 3rd favorite, though, was "Raggedy Man," which was a 1981 movie that had Henry Thomas in it before he was cast in E.T. It's a cute WW2 story about a woman (Sissy) who was ostracized for being divorced, which was taboo back then in some places.

[@shrekipep1]

I AM SCREAMING !!!!!! This was one of my favorite movies from the 70s. I looked for this on youtube before but gave up. Then, today, I was scanning for old movies to watch and found this. THANK YOU !!!!!

[@1955annemarie]

Ha, ha!! Same here!! I had just managed to get out of a home like Huntington House, only it was so much worse than the one in this movie...and then, just a few months later, "The Girls of Huntington House" came out, and when I looked for this movie on KZbin, it was over forty years later, and I couldn't remember the name of the film, and I was frantic!!! I always hated the way "those girls" were always treated...even in the hospital...like we were all just stupid whores. This is one of my all-time favorite movies!!! So glad I found it as well!!! 😊

[@shrekipep1]

@@1955annemarie I'm glad you found it too!!!😀

[@1955annemarie]

@@shrekipep1, aww... Thanks🤗

[@DorothySmith-re5or]

I'm just picking this at random but shirley jones and sissy spacek are sure to be a good team

[@jchati8680]

❤

[@belleve5709]

I was pregnant.unmarried when this came out ,still in high school and my world was upended my mother tried to putme in a home just like this. But thankfully I turned 18 just a month after I found out and chose to keep baby. Boyfriend was a year younger but we married . It was not easy we worked hard to stay together. Everyone betting we'd lose. We probably would still be married but we lost our third child and we didn't communicate well. But we had 13 years of marriage together, he found someone else or so he thought. I found someone else who loved my kids and we had more! 35 years now! Best thing is I'm close to first husband, we share kids,grandkids and great grand kids, birthdays, holidays. I'm so happy he is doing well, and so am I . If you really love someone fight to keep it,but have fun too! Some days you have to do everything somedays they do, just keep going. Sissy is best Actress ever, she can carry you full circle,she out acted shirley Jones in this one and thats saying something

[@WendyCarstens]

SAME THING HERE , BEEN THERE DONE THAT TOO , BUT I RAISED MY OWN SONS ON MY OWN , NOBODY HELPED ME NOT EVEN THE FATHER OF MY KIDS , I DID WHAT I HAD TO DO AND I DON'T REALLY REGRET IT ONE BIT , MY KIDS ARE MY WORLD 🎉🎉❤❤😊😊 AND NOW I'M A GRANDMA OF 2 BEAUTIFUL GIRLS ❤️ ❤🎉🎉🎉🎉😊😊

[@ElizabethPetrucci]

@@WendyCarstens" 4:21

[@molliemae6855]

Sissy Spacek was 24 years old in this movie. She looks so much younger!

[@northernbettygirl]

Sissy was 27 when she played Carrie, three years after this movie. She was petite and had very youthful facial features.

[@ritaturner9906]

She held her age well

[@zennabella1676]

YES I AGREE, SHE COULD PASS FOR MUCH YOUNGER, SHE HAS THAT LOOK ABOUT HER.

[@beverlyledbetter4906]

A lot of these movies I haven't seen in years, like this one. Sissy Spacek was so good in these early years; and it's amazing how she could still play a teenager in Coal Miner's Daughter!

[@vsibirsky]

Sissy was just special from the beginning. She has played the part of the innocent many times over her long career but she always goes deep in to the character to find whatever lurks there. Sometimes it is strength or vulnerability or whatever, but this actress just always claims the inner part of a character.

[@alexiswaller3065]

Loved her as lorreta lynn

[@michelestinnett2708]

She was great in an episode in the Walton's where I believe, John-Boy delivered her baby then!

[@reneemeston2916]

This was a really nice movie. I'm 52 now, and I remember the 70's as being an awesome time. The music, the clothes the tv shows and movies. Life was so much better back in the day. Think of all the really weird and insane things that are taking place now in 2020. I don't have tv, so thank you for sharing this movie on KZbin 😆 Renee from California

[@MicheleMJJ]

Yes, I agree. Also, Sally Field was in a movie in the 70s called "Maybe I'll Come Home In The Spring." I think you would like it.

[@MicheleMJJ]

I just checked, and that movie is on KZbin too.

[@reneemeston2916]

@@MicheleMJJ Thank you so much for that🤣 I will check it out!

[@klausgh]

In history, the 'future has always been better than the past'. At the age of 57, I remember much more weirdness and insanity from the days you refer to than I could see in the present. We all just have a strong tendency to glorify the past and let the subconscious mind gloss over and forget what we rather prefer not to remember. I have hundreds of lovely memories of when I was young - and simultaneously wouldn't like to experience everything I then went through again. The world of the 70s would appear backward and appalling to you in many aspects if you'd travel back to it now and saw it as it really was.

[@reneemeston2916]

@@klausgh I agree. I had the worst childhood. I wouldn't go back for all of the money in the world, trust me. It's a miracle that I survived.

[@robynheavner4689]

I love Sissy! Great actress! Have loved her since Carrie! But somehow didn't see this one! Glad I found it! Thank you!

[@TheErinV]

OMG!!!! I had no idea this was a TV movie. One of my FAVORITE books in elementary school. I still have a very beaten up copy. Fun fact: the author is Danny Elfman's mom.

[@aimeekelly9794]

My son is a HUGE Oingo Boingo fan. Thanks for sharing!!

[@darrenmiller6927]

That was great. I loved Pamela Sue Martin as a kid. I was about 9 when I saw her in the Poseidon Adventure in about 1973 in the cheep theature after it had been out for some time. She was 18 in that movie and I had a huge crush on her, my friend had a crush on Carol Lynly, lol. I was looking at her on Google and I saw this movie, with Sissy Spacek!!! Had to watch and I loved it! Shirley Jones was great! Love seeing them all young again. William Windom is always good too. Great Saturday afternoon movie. I'll have to thank Pamela Sue Martin for this one, and my crazy childhood crush, lol. Thanks so much for posting, I felt young again. And who doesn't love the amazing force of nature Sissy Spacek? Goes without saying.

[@justinmeyer6044]

Even when Sissy plays the "mean" person, she still turns out sweet in the end. It seems that she will always touch you emotionally in a positive way in each movie she's in; and that's why I like her :)

[@bigjohn08865]

As a fan of Schuyler Fisk let me tell you the apple didn't fall far from the tree.

[@tarpleyk9352]

I was born in 1972, I find it interesting to watch what movies were like before I ever realized such a thing existed. This was a good movie, and I truly appreciated the ending. I wish movies still existed with substance of reality, if that makes sense. I'm so thankful I was born when I was. Children have no idea what it was like before the world got so extremely corrupted as it seems to be now. Now I'm at the age of 52, times were hard back then for our parents as well, as they are now for us. However, times definitely have changed, and the world is a whole lot different than it once was. ❤

[@Wheelstar72]

I’m t same age as u mum didn’t have any easy time when I was born as I was born with major heart defects, when I was 1 she was told I wouldn’t live to be 10, I’m still here I had chronic reflux as a baby it would take 4hrs to get just 2mls of milk in me. I was born nearly 2months premature but weighed a whopping 8lb 1oz

[@foldelops]

When times were simple... And ppl really cared about others & helping them...& there was a place for unwed pregnant moms to go! Now ppl just run the opposite direction! Great flicks, tv, music, concerts... And Flicks were worth watchin! Wow what a cast too... Mrs Partridge 😆 SJ, Sissy Spacek at 24, William Windom, Pamela Sue Martin, Helen Page, Katherine MacGovern, Mercedes McCambridge, etc Far n few do they make this caliber of movie w this caliber of cast too! Thx for the load...great Flick ! ! !

[@lovelyrodriguez2190]

There are still places like that that help young pregnant women. And just to say, any time period has their set of problems that people forget about, that lead others to romanticize and be nostalgic about. It's better to think about now and what can be the future, rather than what has long since used to be.

[@kaleahcollins4567]

Those mother baby homes was shit back then. They treated the girls like shit some even abused them.

[@DorothySmith-re5or]

​@@kaleahcollins4567now they kill the baby these days 😢

[@LisaS1]

Great movie and great subject! I've always loved Sissy Spacek!

[@texas1949]

Sissy is one of the best actors this country has ever churned out. Even in this TV movie she stands out. 👍

[@kathytaylor1595]

The 70’s were awesome. I saw “Maybe I’ll Come Home in the Spring” back in the 70’s when it came out, really good movie.

[@mariaibarra5883]

Yes, they both are. I didn't see them when they came out in the theaters ; way too young then.

[@kathytaylor1595]

beverly ledbetter I wish I could find the dvd

[@jodilopez7164]

I'm 76!! Remember all the 60's. ...70..80..90...each era had its own beauty

[@susanborkenhagen58]

I liked that film a lot. This one was sort of like it "Go Ask Alice". kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXPbhWhpp5d0orc.

[@susanborkenhagen58]

Go Ask Alice was also good...kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXPbhWhpp5d0orc

[@charlenebercillio8065]

Jun 30,2024. Watching it tonight 😊

[@SatoshiOfBitcoin]

August 10th, 2024: Satoshi of Bitcoin was here🗽

[@pinecone1321]

I wasn't allowed to watch this on the first run. I was 10. All of my budding fangirl stars in one place, including my favorite TV mom, Shirley Jones Partridge.

[@MeeMawCummins]

Same . I was not allowed to watch it either . I was in third grade . I was so mad at my mom . I could hear her watching it in the living room , while I was upstairs in my bedroom . I forgot all about this movie . I am almost 60 and watching it for the first time .

[@mk202]

Sissy Spacek was so precious and exquisite in her youth. You just wanted to reach into your screen, wrap your arms and hold her until she was perfectly safe from everything that worried her. She’s still very beautiful today and she’s an extremely accomplished actress. Yes I called her an actress. She’s Worth It. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@pheenobarbidoll2016]

I always just wanted to smack her.

[@ccl7983]

Agreed she’s beautiful and great actress

[@ShanBowman]

Really she was 27 when she was in Carrie 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@beverlyledbetter4906]

I guess Shirley had enough moxey to deal with Sissy after putting up with Danny for three seasons!😄

[@user-qr9uh1fd8g]

Beautiful Sisssy Spacek. Brilliant actress

[@paulppchristman5827]

I recall seeing this on ABC when I was in junior high, so it must have been an encore airing; the info says that it originally aired in February 1973 and I began jh in September of that year. I remember the line "I may not know what love is, but I know what love DOES!"

[@eunicestone6532]

God help! Most of them are babies themselves. Not an ounce of maturity. Just waiting to give birth and pass it off so in a few weeks they are up and running breeding another one. I was pregnant at 16 and got married and kept my baby. The marriage was horrible but I was totally in love with my child. Still am--- even though she passed at age 12 of cancer. God bless her soul.

[@tamaraclaw]

Paul Williams songs...one of the few good things about the 70s

[@carlawilliams5132]

Is a very beautiful song

[@rhondawillis2600]

Yep! Great writer just not a singer😁

[@angelicagarcia5736]

Good movie I like these clean caring movies from back in the day 👍

[@marymorris4779]

Thanks for putting this on “memories” I had it on video I taped from the TV. Sent it to my Sis 😂😂😂👍🏼

[@titania145]

Love an oldie....those girls are my age, Pamela Sue, Sissi....great bunch all of them .... Don't make'em like they used to 👍💝💓💐💗

[@raeturner8711]

U mean the age u r now or then?

[@katbowl9971]

@Tonago Lmao. Idiot

[@katbowl9971]

@Tonago Sounds like you're obsessed. Go back off in your own jack yard. 🙄

[@katbowl9971]

@Tonago Yep, you are.

[@poorthing]

Sissy birthday: 12/25/49. * Christmas Baby.. *Married in '74, still married *She's 2 awards from being an EGOT Needs a Tony & Grammy and . She has addt'l awards like Bafta *5'2" tiny! *talented singer, sang in Coal Miners Daughter, her Oscar performance

[@carolsanders3979]

I love all these old movies I was just a baby whenthis came out but I got to tell you I still love these things these movies my mom and I used to watch all shows and movies together and go back into town and watch em allthe masked no freaking profanity no nudity just movies movies back in our trash.

[@EphemeralProductions]

I wasn’t even alive when this aired. lol. So you’ve got one up on me! I wasn’t born until a year later

[@bettymartinez1975]

I really enjoyed this movie I too was one of those girls and I kept my baby that my mother tried to give away I got my baby girl and moved out at the age of 15

[@angellopes9353]

How are your baby nowadays? 😊❤

[@Rollimggiant]

Wow Sissy was so young and you can't help but notice her talent as an actress .

[@jenniferwilcox9759]

Ha, ha! In 1972, it was FOB. Now, it's "baby daddy".

[@emilymatthews2990]

Found footage of Carrie three years before her telekinesis sets in.

[@colleenvozella4401]

Thankyou for this great movie ❤I've only seen it once before and so happy to watch it again with a line up of superb actors 😀 ❤❤❤❤🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@monicamccravey457]

My mother was the daughter of alcoholics. She gave birth to me at 16 and wasn't remotely equipped with being a mother. I'm 57 and a college graduate, wife, mother of 3 adult children. More people should choose life!

[@tennesseetruckgirl8591]

I agree. Thank you for sharing.

[@hopemccubbin8661]

You got lucky

[@monicamccravey457]

@hopemccubbin8661 I am very blessed by the Lord despite myself lol. TY

[@shadowlouise]

I saw this Movie of the Week when it first ran on TV, and I never forgot it (except the title). I was a teen myself. I was glad to stumble across it again, so thank you. It's probably difficult for people now to relate to this attitude toward teen pregnancy -- sending the girls away and encouraging them to give away their babies. I had a friend this happened to; her father made the decision. But many years later, her daughter came looking for her. Other friends got married and kept their babies. This was probably the last generation that did this to girls (exiled in disgrace and pressed into adoption).

[@njboz23]

I was highly pressured by planned parenthood it’s what it was called back then to have an abortion. I couldn’t get out of that place fast enough 😳

[@ainesionann2354]

@@njboz23 So glad you were brave enough to choose life at a time it was not easy to do the right thing. ❤

[@galdd2024]

Loved it ! Thank you 🙏

[@julieshelley-fd5kp]

Excellent movie! Will watch again, thank you for upload!

[@KevinMacdonald-ux7lk]

Just three years before she played the role of Carrie White in Carrie, Sissy Spacek played the role of Sarah in this wonderful TV movie

[@ronhillard7040]

i like sissy spacek in everything she does. this is the youngest of her that i've ever seen

[@mothershelper1981]

I'm pretty sure the first movie I saw her in was called Catherine. I'll have to look it up whether it was before or after this one.

[@samanthab1923]

I didn't know she did anything before Carrie. Don't remember this movie, strange bunch. Weird concept know adays, there was a home for wayward girls in a town near me growing up.

[@Bampitas74ps]

I feel the same. I'll watch any movie Sissy Spacek is in. I think she's a great actress.

[@poorthing]

Sissy has managed to age gracefully and with astonishing beauty. Lovely long hair and little impish face virtually the same since 1970. She elevates every project shes part of, she's still doing it right.

[@samanthab1923]

Lisa Mathews Why so snarky? I didn't say she hadn't been in anything before Carrie, I just wasn't aware of her body of work previous to said movie.

[@donnasreviewandrandomthoug6504]

Paul Williams is known for his melancholy songs of the 70's. He has a very distinct sound.

[@luiscarvalho91]

This is such a beautiful piece of art! Thank you for sharing with everybody!

[@karenjoslyn4051]

my grandmother was a nurse in a Catholic maternity hospital in the twenties in Lackawanna, NY

[@eddiebear60]

Mercedes McCambridge - she voiced the devil for Linda Blair in The Exorcist.

[@jeantetreault132]

She also played in the movie Giant, with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean.

[@Armistead_MacSkye]

​@@jeantetreault132And, Johnny Guitar vs. Joan Crawford.

[@BunnyLang]

Such a beautiful movie. So much to learn. Thank you very much.

[@VivienneMarsden-ky6or]

Sissy is such a natural beauty and Amazing actress..❤❤❤

[@charlenebercillio8065]

Thank u for putting this movie 🎥👍

[@shananalexander9789]

I loved Paul Williams voice. I believe he was the one singing.

[@CCBrady]

It seems like he sang in just about everything in the 70’s. I sure miss that decade !!!

[@angeladay7544]

I love, Shirley Jones, that acted in the Patridge Family who was the mother to the eldest son, my minds gone blank right now.❤.

[@cindyhimes]

She was married to Ted Cassidy and David Cassidy was her stepson.

[@PatriciaLopez-fn8el]

​@cindyhimes❤yes ❤❤

[@suzilindblad5207]

Cool to see "Mrs.Whipple" and "Mrs.Olsen" from Little House on the Prairie in this movie!😃

[@zombashtu8136]

Rose Beckwith is played by Mrs Oleson from Little House on the Prairie!

[@wendystrukel9663]

I thought she looked familiar, thanks!

[@zombashtu8136]

@jade ac Yes, and she played Rose Beckwith in The Girls of Huntington House!

[@EphemeralProductions]

Just a year before the show started

[@raintaylor4448]

What a delightful movie,,, oh the perils, the dramas of teenage pregnancy.

[@MicheleMJJ]

Which are still going on today.

[@mysteriousenigma6288]

Love you Sissy Spacek

[@squint4401]

been looking for this, thanks :)

[@cartman9675]

Same!

[@Michelle-kg9zz]

I've never seen this movie B4 Thanks for sharing,!!!

[@Jennifer-xz3is]

After school special or movie of the week? Definitely before Carrie!

[@accomplice55]

Movie of the week. I was a senior in high school and LOVED this movie.

[@reneebraxton1032]

Paul Williams had such a beautiful, inspiring singing voice.

[@cinnamonnut]

Agreed! I've always loved his songs

[@poorthing]

I was just thinking how annoying his voice was!!!! Songwriting was his talent

[@annahgibbus8]

​@@poorthing What an abominable voice absolutely loathsome. I can't believe anybody could tolerate it let alone enjoy it😬

[@AutisticChristian333]

Both the teacher Baldwin and her ex bf both played in the Star Trek TOS series in the episode Metamorphosis as Miss Hedford, and as Cochrane. 😂

[@charlenebercillio8065]

What a great movie. Wish there was more movies like this in the world ❤

[@northernbettygirl]

Wow. I never knew about this movie. Sissy did this in 73, and then Carrie in 76. Could tell both were done close in years. Shirley Jones looks like she just stepped off the set of the Partridge Family

[@PatriciaLopez-fn8el]

❤❤ 🎉 Ted Cassidy was her husband, and David Cassidy her son ❤❤❤🎉❤❤❤

[@HannahSky1]

Loved it. I am a fan of Shirley Jones. All the cast are amazing. I noticed that Mary (Debbie Dozier) is the real daughter of Joan Fontaine. Great!

[@blorkpovud1576]

Didn't know Carrie and Pazuzu starred in the same movie!

[@LannieLord]

The older lady that is the head of the school was the VOICE of possessed Linda Blair in The Exorcist ! I loved all the TV movies from the ABC Movie of the Week but I did not watch this one as I am a male - this movie is WAY too "girly drama". But I did enjoy "Five Desperate Women" (murder mystery) and ..The Night Stalker ! The TV movies back then all had a "mood" about them that was based in reality . They were normally on Tuesday night and Thursday nights . For some odd reason CBS and NBC did not make many TV movies , CBS made Gargoyles in 1972. That was VERY SCARY . I was partial to the thriller / horror TV movies. Some of the better ones were Home for the Holidays , The Victim, Dying Room Only and the very weird Haunts of the Very Rich. The Girl Most Likely Too was a rare comedy with Stockard Channing in 1973. In 1975, there was a TV movie called Someone I Touched and the subject matter was ...V.D. ! This was the FIRST time you got a warning "this contains adult subject matter . Viewer discretion advised". And then there was Karen Black and that little doll with the steak knife ....

[@kaleahcollins4567]

Theres and episode of long lost family that is something similar to this situation with Sara. It was 1971 she was 19 and wanted to be a musician . well good thing she found her lil boy 38 years later . SHE became a musician but never married nor had more kids

[@debraescano2744]

I can’t wait to watch it!! ❤❤!

[@tweetiebirdism]

This was a favorite movie of mine in my teens.

[@bonniebasham1179]

Paul Williams is from my home town! Lucasville, Ohio!

[@dlspeed1]

Shirley from the Partridge Family, the new teacher? Just might be....sure is, can hear it in her voice....:)

[@user-qr9uh1fd8g]

I never seen that television show

[@Jean-tj2uz]

Love Sissy ❤

[@bigjohn08865]

I ❤ Schuyler.

[@josanders5435]

This is a good movie! I haven't seen it for a long time!

[@cyflym11]

Sarah is rather annoying. She has opinions on everything and criticises other people for how they live their lives, but there she is in the teenage maternity home! What makes her think she's doing so well? Actually I think she's a bully the way she goes on at the teacher.

[@bigjohn08865]

Sissy looked SO MUCH like Schuyler in this movie!

[@ShanBowman]

Man this is crazy my mom was pregnant with me in 1973 She said it was like that she was sent ro a special school when she was 7 months

[@smc130]

It was the dark ages back then. Small town church ladies got a lot of mileage from gossiping about the single young girls and women who were “in trouble.” That same mindset is always against abortion for religious reasons. What selfish, lying hypocrites! They still enjoy gossiping when they’re in their 80’s! Disgusting!

[@simonecameron326]

Iconic...thanku ❤

[@lisawentworth6831]

So everyone is mooning over Sissy Spacek and ignoring LEGEND Shirley Jones?? Oklahoma?? Partridge Family? Sissy was a stringy haired nobody then...Shirley could sing like a goddess and act! smh....

[@uggabugg9]

Don't forget Pamela Sue Martin

[@MrEd9574]

My o!der sister got sent to one of these homes after getting pregnant. Our folks had just got a divorce and he started drinking and became an awful parent compared to before. She left his home and lived with a guy got pregnant and sent away. She had to give up the baby, she was so tramtatized she never recovered her life has been nearly destroyed. She has nothing to do with your family and had 2 sons but was single and they don't have a relationship with her either. It's heartbreaking what it can do to a person.

[@willbosley7413]

Mercedes is the voice of the demon in the Exorcist

[@MistyMitchell-b5o]

Could you imagine trying to send girls to homes likes this in today's world?!

[@4shys2]

Isn't that Paul Williams singing the ending song ? I remember this , Sissy Spacek must used this to audition for "Coal Miners' Daughter? Recognized Pamela Sue Martin who played Falon Colby

[@diannenaworensky6698]

And Nancy Drew

[@user-qr9uh1fd8g]

Coal miners daughter was a good movie!

[@EphemeralProductions]

Shirley ! And Katherine Mac gregor! Love it. ❤️❤️❤️

[@kaleahcollins4567]

how dare they not respect MRS. RODRIGUEZ they call everyone else by their proper names but call her Rodriguez

[@Armistead_MacSkye]

😂

[@zoozoopeddles114]

I was 2 I totally missed this. 😢

[@ritaturner9906]

This is the first time I’ve heard of someone being able to teach without a college degree

[@mariaibarra5883]

She was already a stepmother of one son and mother to her other three sons with Jack Cassidy.

[@jeantetreault132]

She was the step mother of David Cassidy!

[@jenniferdaniel1104]

And the mother of Shaun Cassidy 😊

[@dianewhite9399]

Me and 45years going strong :) with the baby daddy! LOL!

[@denisesigns]

i was three when this movie came out

[@katevans8705]

Awesome old movie 👏😎

[@jeansbeans2]

I love the book!! They chopped it up for the movie, but it's good!

[@Armistead_MacSkye]

These gals are all knocked-up. 😮

[@lnelson5704]

If you liked this and Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring, you might like The Death of Richie. I watched it with my parents - the only time ever, probably - and my dad said, "It was just like our house. " Except I'm a girl. I recently saw it on KZbin. Great movie

[@jeanettehightower943]

Y they have a play music? Can’t hear them talking!!!?🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🙏

[@cheriamour1762]

Shirley partridge was pissed!

[@EphemeralProductions]

Yep! Can’t picture her character in partridge family slapping someone! lol. I was surprised though that she wasn’t even reprimanded for it. Even then teachers could have been fired for that.

[@beverlyledbetter4906]

That look of panic on her face with Sissy was priceless!✌️

[@karenjoslyn4051]

Paul Williams just nails any movie theme song!!

[@sheristewart3940]

❤ At 14:06, as the girls filed out of class, I thought, "That's a lot of hormones gone wild. Those poor ladies looking out for these girls are more than saints ~ they're angels ❤

[@KittyChanel]

The ladies who played "Carrie" and "Mrs Oleson" in one film? I need to watch it even tho the plot seems boring to me. Too bad its not a horror film!

[@catlady8324]

Not to mention Commodore Decker.

[@KittyChanel]

@@catlady8324 who?

[@catlady8324]

@@KittyChanel You’re going to have to learn to do a Google search so you can figure things out on your own. I’m not always going to be there to answer all your questions. Clue: William Windom in Star Trek.

[@MzGumby02]

Brilliant movie!

[@cindyhimes]

Wow! Shirley Jones before The Partridge Family. It's going to be a good movie with sissy and her in it

[@Justmc2unme]

During Partridge Family! It ran 1970-74.

[@Arandomperson_online]

Such a good movie 😊

[@ritaturner9906]

I never saw this movie before. I never really heard of places like this except connected with churches. This place seems free of charge but I bet other places cost. My city didn’t have a place like this that I knew of and probably could have used one. I witnessed a girl in junior high who got pregnant. One day she just disappeared and never saw her again, she never came to high school. Maybe she moved or was homeschooled. Never heard of homeschooling back then either. One time I saw her at a carnival and that was it. Another girl in high school. Her parents threw her out. The guys family took her in but they had a small house and many kids to raise and they were still kids themselves. The girl dropped out of school. I know the guy was trying to stay in but he was working a job at night possibly 30 minutes away (commute). I lost track of her. But I did see her in a grocery store once and I think she had a second baby. Never knew what happened to them. Or if either ever got their high school diplomas. Another girl that got pregnant was in her senior year, 3 months from graduation and her parents made her quit school and get married. From what I remember she didn’t want to leave school and didn’t want to get married. Saw her like 30+ years later. I don’t think her marriage lasted. Back then there wasn’t a night high school, on line, alternative or homeschooling so kids just dropped out. We probably needed a place like this. Nowadays with night school, online, alternative, homeschooling, kids have more of a chance to stay in school and graduate. And go onto colllege in married housing. I always thought you had to be married for married housing but I knew a girl who got pregnant in between high school and college. Took her baby to college and they stayed in married housing at a reduced cost versus getting their own apartment. I think she used the university daycare as well and got through 4 years of college. She had super supportive parents and family. At my high school in the 1970s/1980s, a big majority were sexually active and if it weren’t for planned parenthood down the street, I think there would have been more pregnancies. It was a place you didn’t have to tell your parents and you could get free condoms and birth control pills.