Intimate Portrait – Season 5
Episodes
Barbara Mandrell
Leeza Gibbons
Iman
Andie MacDowell
Mia Farrow
Tanya Tucker
Faith Ford
Fran Drescher
Viewers will learn that there's more to actress and author Fran Drescher than her nasal Queens accent when you see Intimate Portrait: Fran Drescher. The film documents Drescher's rise to stardom with roles in Saturday Night Fever and This is Spinal Tap, and discusses the creation of The Nanny, the television series that she and husband Peter Marc Jacobson produced. Her parents, manager, high school drama teacher, and good friend Dan Aykroyd, praise her as an ambitious woman who followed her dreams and came out on top. A poignant moment in the film is Drescher's candid account of being raped at gunpoint in 1985--the horrific experience that sent her to live with Aykroyd and his wife, Donna Dixon, who narrates this Intimate Portrait tribute. Read more about the comedienne's life in her 1996 autobiography, Enter Whining.
Doris Duke
Della Reese
Eleanor Roosevelt
Marilu Henner
Amy Irving
Josephine Baker
Oksana Baiul
Ingrid Bergman
Melissa Etheridge
Bella Abzug
Jane Alexander
Joan Rivers
Bette Davis
Olympia Dukakis
Lindsay Wagner
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Donna Reed
Agnes Nixon
Stefanie Powers
Mae West
Sarah Brady
Margot Kidder
Carolyn McCarthy
Jessica Tandy
Ally Sheedy
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Betty Friedan
Cheryl Ladd
Jacqueline Susann
Jane Alexander
Jean Harlow
Jessica Savitch
Tyne Daly
Kelly Preston
Laura Dern
Linda Ellerbee
Loni Anderson
Michele Lee
Pam Grier
Natalie Merchant
Star Jones
Natalie Cole
One hour television documentary about the life and career of singer Natalie Cole which originally aired on Lifetime Television in 1998 as part of its "Intimate Portrait" series. Includes interviews with Natale Cole, Tony Bennett, Quincy Jones, Phil Ramone, David Foster, Chaka Khan, Luther Vandross, Maria Cole, Dan Cleary and narrated by Patrick Stewart.