Genre: | Drama |
Director: | Walter Doniger |
Starring: | Cheryl Ladd Ned Beatty |
Theme Music Composer: | George Romanis |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Producer: | Walter Doniger |
Location: | Martin County, Kentucky (coal mine) Paintsville, Kentucky |
Editor: | Robert Watts |
Cinematography: | Robert C. Jessup |
Runtime: | 96 min. |
Company: | 20th Century Fox Television CBS Entertainment Production Walter Doniger Productions |
Network: | CBS |
Kentucky Woman is a 1983 American made-for-television drama film, directed by Walter Doniger, starring Cheryl Ladd, Ned Beatty and Peter Weller. It was filmed in Paintsville, Kentucky, and at a Martin County Coal Corporation (Massey Energy) coal mine in Martin County, Kentucky.
Maggie Telford (Cheryl Ladd), a poverty-stricken waitress, faces harassment and humiliation when she goes to work as a coal miner to support her small son and ailing coal miner father disabled with black lung disease (Ned Beatty).