Take My Advice: The Ann and Abby Story

Overview

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

Directed by Alan Metzger

Top cast

Wendie Malick

Ann Landers / Abigail Van Buren

Robert Desiderio

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Kip Gilman

Jules (as Kenneth David Gilman)

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Michelle Duffy

Grown Margo

David Groh

Abe

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Tyler Gannon

Young Margo

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Joann Johnson

Rebecca

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Karen Johnson-Miller

Beauty parlor woman #1

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Angela Nicole Babb

Beauty parlor woman #2

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Raissa Fleming

Beauty parlor woman #3

Tobias Anderson

Dean Evans

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George Fosgate

Cardinal Ryan

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Ted Roisum

Vatican Bishop

Robert D. Heath Jr.

John Daly

Dennis Bateman

Edward R. Murrow

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Carol Jones

Dais speaker

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