Abstract
A TV Movie About Teenage Suicide Forces an Actress to Face Again the Trauma of her Father’s Death
Hartley M
In the CBS movie “Silence of the Heart,” Mariette Hartley plays the mother of a teenage boy who kills himself. In this article, she talks about the life of her father (advertising ewxecutive, artist, & photographer), her childhood, his suicide, the toll it took on the family, her bereavement, & her challenges in making the movie. She hopes the movie will “change people’s outlook on suicide, take all the labels off it, & make it have no shame.”