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Nell Carter: Mother
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Nell Carter played Nell Harper, a portly housekeeper in charge of the Kanisky clan, led by Carl Kanisky (Dolph Sweet), the police chief in the small town of Glen Lawn, California. Carl had just become a widower, and Nell stepped in as a surrogate mother to the three girls in the household, Katie (Kari Michaelson), Julie (Lauri Hendler), and Samantha (Lara Jill Miller), who were in need of guidance and advice as they completed their grade school and high school years.
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Nell is a 1994 drama film starring Jodie Foster as a young woman raised by her mother in an isolated cabin who has to face other human beings for the first time. The film was directed by Michael Apted, and was based on
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When Grandpa comes to get the boys pajamas, since they are sleeping in his apartment because Addy is sick in bed, he tells Nell that her mother has a date. Nell wonders why her mother would have a date, and when her mother shows up, she meets her date, Ernie, a man from her past. It turns out that he was a jazz musician that knew her mother before she married Nell's father. When they were young, he took her to a dance contest, and asked her to go on the road with him, but she rejected. Nell can't believe that this is true. In the end, as Ernie waits outside for Maybelle, Nell asks her mother if the two of them ever had sex, and Mama Maybelle tells her that Nell should know the answer to that question, and tells her she has a lot of growing up to do, and that she must realize that her mother is a woman, just like herself.
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Carter died from heart disease complicated by diabetes in 2003. She was the mother of two adopted teenagers. When she died, friends and family were surprised to discover barely $200 in her bank account. They were further shocked to discover that Carter had been living as a closeted lesbian, and that custody of her children had been left to her domestic partner.
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