From the mid-1970s, after a public battle with alcoholism, she became more known for her television work. She won an Emmy and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her supporting turn in The Thorn Birds, and starred as a southern matriarch in the American civil war miniseries North and South, with (from left) Terri Garber, Patrick Swayze Lewis Smith and Genie Francis
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