Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger

96 minutes

4/22/1980

Overview

The dramatized biography of Margaret Sanger, the crusader who founded America's first birth control clinic during World War I and was tried in court under obscenity laws.

Cast List

Bonnie Franklin
as Margaret Sanger
David Dukes
as Bill Sanger
Richard Johnson
as Havelock Ellis
Stacy Keach
as Judge Murdock
Frances Lee McCain
as Ethel Higgins
Milo O’Shea
as Michael Higgins
Albert Salmi
as Big Bill Haywood
Yvonne Wilder
as Fania Mindell
William Windom
as Monseigneur Soldini
Carol Eve Rossen
as Anita
Garn Stephens
as Mollie Farber
Deborah Baltzell
as Ida Lifshiz
Kathleen Doyle
as Marvis
James Karen
as Untermeyer
F. William Parker
as Warden Hale
Helen Boll
as Matron #2
John Carlyle
as FBI Man
Joella Deffenbaugh
as Mrs. O'Hara
Anson Downes
as Messenger
Olive Dunbar
as Mrs. Sullivan
John Christy Ewing
as Congressman Berger
Matthew Faison
as D.A. Content
Lisbeth Fielding
as Matron #1
Laurence Haddon
as Prosecutor
Maurice Hill
as Warren Harding
Tommy G. Kendrick
as Reporter
Archie Lang
as Butler
Bob Larkin
as Reporter #3
Russ Marin
as Dr. Hilburn
Robert Nadder
as Dr. Rutgers
John O'Leary
as Dr. Jessup
Jami Platt
as Young Margaret
Bruce Reed
as Jake Sacks
Glenn Robards
as Reporter #1
Elizabeth Ruscio
as Dolly
Shirley Slater
as Mrs. Thomas
Fred Slyter
as Bailiff
Joanne Strauss
as Mrs. Daley
Jane Strudwick
as Mabel Dodge
Bunny Summers
as Rose
Stacy Heather Tolkin
as Peggy
Jimmy Weldon
as Senator
Jason Wingreen
as Judge Hazel