Family Album

: Family Album is also the name of a comedy TV series. See Family Album (TV series).

The movie

Family Album was adapted into a TV movie in 1994 by NBC. Although the plot was simplified from the original novel, it retains the basic story.

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Cast

• Jaclyn Smith - Faye Price Thayer, actress, director, wife and mother.
• Michael Ontkean - Ward Thayer, her husband, a rich heir who loses his money but later recovers it.
• Joe Flanigan - Lionel Thayer, her oldest son, who later comes out as homosexual.
• Kristin Minter - Valerie Thayer, her oldest daughter, who later also becomes an actress.
• Leslie Horan - Anne Thayer O'Hara, her youngest daughter, who after giving up her first child for adoption, falls in love with her best friend's father.
• Brian Krause - Greg Thayer, her second son, who dies in Vietnam.
• Tom Mason - Bill O'Hara, Anne's husband.
• Joel Gretsch - John, Greg's best friend who later becomes Lionel's lover, until he dies in a car accident.
• Paul Satterfield - Paul Steel, an actor who gives Lionel good advice once and, years later, becomes his second lover.