Take My Advice: The Ann and Abby Story
1999•1h 30m•4.2•Released
ComedyDramaTV Movie
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
Director
Alan Metzger
Writer
Howard Burkons, Adam Gilad
Languages
English
Studio
Hearst Entertainment Productions
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
Angela Nicole Babb
Beauty parlor woman #2
Raissa Fleming
Beauty parlor woman #3
Tobias Anderson
Dean Evans
George Fosgate
Cardinal Ryan
Ted Roisum
Vatican Bishop
Robert D. Heath Jr.
John Daly
Dennis Bateman
Edward R. Murrow
Production
Company
Hearst Entertainment Productions
Company
Freyda Rothstein Productions
Company
Lifetime
Producer
Gideon Amir
Producer
Howard Burkons
Producer
Adam Gilad
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