Harper Valley PTA (film)

Harper Valley PTA is a 1978 comedy film inspired by the popular 1968 country song Harper Valley PTA written by Tom T. Hall and performed by Jeannie C. Riley. The film starred Barbara Eden, Nanette Fabray, Ronny Cox, Louis Nye and Susan Swift, directed by Richard Bennett, and was mainly released to drivein theaters in June 1978.

Stella Johnson Barbara Eden is a beautiful widowed single mother who lives in the town of Harper Valley, Ohio. She sells cosmetics doortodoor for the fictitious AngelGlo Cosmetics akin to the reallife Avon. Her fourteenyearold daughter is named Dee Susan Swift, a student at Harper Valley Junior High School.After leaving school, Dee brings her mother a letter from the schools Parent Teacher Association board, which is led by the pompous and snobbish Flora Simpson Reilly Audrey Christie. The letter denounces her for her not following the societal mores of the day and the community and further stating that if she didnt change her ways more to the boards liking, Dee would be punished for her mothers sins by being expelled from school. ........

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