Overview
Biopic about tennis great Maureen Connolly who, as a teenager, was the first woman to win the Grand Slam of Tennis, became world-renowned as "Little Mo," and died of cancer in 1969 at the age of 34.
Director and cast
- Michael Learned as Eleanor 'Teach' Tennant
- Anne Baxter as Jessamyn Connolly
- Glynnis O'Connor as Maureen Connolly
- Claude Akins as Gus Berste
- Anne Francis as Sophie Fisher
- Mark Harmon as Norman Brinker
- Martin Milner as Wilbur Folsom
- Leslie Nielsen as Nelson Fisher
- Tony Trabert as Himself
- Ann Doran as Aunt Gert
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