Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

📺 Series US
โ˜… 7.1 /10 1994

The movie, adapted from Allan Gurganus's 1989 book of the same name, chronicles the life of Lucy Marsden, a 99-year-old North Carolina woman who at age 14 married a 50-year-old Confederate veteran of the Civil War and bore nine children (reduced to six for television). Diane Lane stars as Lucy from her teenage years into middle age, and Anne Bancroft plays Lucy approaching her 100th birthday, telling her story in flashback.

Cast

Diane Lane
Diane Lane
Lucy Honicut Marsden
Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland
Capt. William Marsden
Amber Brooke
Amber Brooke
Baby
Kathryn Morris
Kathryn Morris
Zundro (Sandra)
Blythe Danner
Blythe Danner
Bianca Honicut
Anne Bancroft
Anne Bancroft
Lucy Marsden (age 99-100)
Cicely Tyson
Cicely Tyson
Castralia, Marsden Family House Slave
Cicely Tyson
Cicely Tyson
Maid
E.G. Marshall
E.G. Marshall
Prof. Taw, Old Folks Home Resident
Gwen Verdon
Gwen Verdon
Etta Pell, Old Folks Home Resident
Camille Cooper
Camille Cooper
Shirey Ann Williams, Lucy's best girlhood friend