Why Me? (1984 film)

Why Me? is a 1984 made-for-television film directed by Fielder Cook and starring Glynnis O'Connor and Armand Assante.[1][2]

Why Me?
GenreDrama
Written byLeola Mae Harmon (novel)
Dalene Young (screenplay)
Directed byFielder Cook
StarringGlynnis O'Connor
Armand Assante
Craig Wasson
Annie Potts
Lin Shaye
Music byBilly Goldenberg
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producersMalcolm Stuart
Dalene Young
ProducersLowell Mate
Michael Moyse
Robert Papazian
Irwin Steinberg
CinematographyWoody Omens
EditorParkie L. Singh (as Parkie Singh)
Running time100 min.
Production companyLorimar Television
DistributorWarner Bros. Television
Release
Original networkABC
Picture formatColor
Audio formatMono
Original releaseMarch 12, 1984 (1984-03-12)

Premise

Air Force nurse Leola Mae Harmon is about to leave the military in 1968 when her face is terribly disfigured in a car crash in which she also loses her baby while the drunk driver who caused the crash received leniency. Traumatised further when her marriage breaks up after the accident, Leola falls under the care of Air Force surgeon James Stallings. Stallings fights the service's medical bureaucracy to repair Leola's face with several radical procedures over 20 reconstructive surgeries, while Leola befriends a disfigured boy hospitalised in the same facility. Stallings and Leola also fall in love by the time Dr. Stallings's work achieves the final results for her.

The film is based on the real-life story of Leola Mae Harmon and James Stallings, who married in 1971. The marriage lasted five years; Leola remarried happily in 1982 and continued her nursing career. She died of multiple organ failure in 1998. Stallings became a noted plastic and voice surgeon who pioneered vocal reconstructive surgery. He, too, remarried happily, but after being diagnosed with Epstein-Barr Syndrome in 1987, the disease interfered with his work until his suicide in 1991.

References
  1. Karp, Marcelle; Stoller, Debbie (1999). The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order. Penguin Books. ISBN 9781101503171.
  2. "Why Me?". Tvguide.co.uk.
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