Air Date

January 2, 1999

Episodes

52 episodes

Intimate Portrait

Season 5

Episodes

1. Barbara Mandrell

January 2, 1999

45 min

2. Leeza Gibbons

January 9, 1999

45 min

3. Iman

January 9, 1999

45 min

4. Andie MacDowell

January 16, 1999

45 min

5. Mia Farrow

January 19, 1999

45 min

6. Tanya Tucker

September 22, 1996

45 min

7. Faith Ford

February 2, 1999

45 min

8. Fran Drescher

February 20, 1999

45 min

Viewers will learn that there's more to actress and author Fran Drescher than her nasal Queens accent when you see Intimate Portrait: Fran Drescher. The film documents Drescher's rise to stardom with roles in Saturday Night Fever and This is Spinal Tap, and discusses the creation of The Nanny, the television series that she and husband Peter Marc Jacobson produced. Her parents, manager, high school drama teacher, and good friend Dan Aykroyd, praise her as an ambitious woman who followed her dreams and came out on top. A poignant moment in the film is Drescher's candid account of being raped at gunpoint in 1985--the horrific experience that sent her to live with Aykroyd and his wife, Donna Dixon, who narrates this Intimate Portrait tribute. Read more about the comedienne's life in her 1996 autobiography, Enter Whining.

9. Doris Duke

February 21, 1999

45 min

10. Della Reese

February 27, 1999

45 min

11. Eleanor Roosevelt

March 8, 1999

45 min

12. Marilu Henner

March 9, 1999

45 min

13. Amy Irving

March 9, 1999

45 min

14. Josephine Baker

July 19, 1999

45 min

15. Oksana Baiul

March 16, 1999

45 min

16. Ingrid Bergman

October 15, 1995

45 min

17. Melissa Etheridge

January 18, 1999

45 min

18. Bella Abzug

March 11, 1999

45 min

19. Jane Alexander

March 30, 1999

45 min

20. Joan Rivers

April 4, 1999

45 min

21. Bette Davis

September 26, 1996

45 min

22. Olympia Dukakis

April 18, 1999

45 min

23. Lindsay Wagner

April 25, 1999

45 min

24. Dr. Laura Schlessinger

May 2, 1999

45 min

25. Donna Reed

May 9, 1999

45 min

26. Agnes Nixon

May 16, 1999

45 min

27. Stefanie Powers

May 23, 1999

45 min

28. Mae West

May 26, 1999

45 min

29. Sarah Brady

May 28, 1999

45 min

30. Margot Kidder

May 27, 1999

45 min

31. Carolyn McCarthy

June 6, 1999

45 min

32. Jessica Tandy

June 13, 1999

45 min

33. Ally Sheedy

December 7, 1999

45 min

34. Barbara Taylor Bradford

December 21, 1999

45 min

35. Betty Friedan

August 8, 1999

45 min

36. Cheryl Ladd

November 29, 1999

45 min

37. Jacqueline Susann

August 30, 1999

45 min

38. Jane Alexander

January 1, 1999

45 min

39. Jean Harlow

September 8, 1999

45 min

40. Jessica Savitch

September 4, 1995

45 min

41. Tyne Daly

July 26, 1999

45 min

42. Kelly Preston

August 16, 1999

45 min

43. Laura Dern

December 27, 1999

45 min

44. Linda Ellerbee

October 4, 1999

45 min

45. Loni Anderson

November 15, 1999

45 min

46. Michele Lee

October 18, 1999

45 min

47. Pam Grier

November 4, 1999

45 min

48. Natalie Merchant

November 8, 1999

45 min

49. Star Jones

October 11, 1999

45 min

50. Natalie Cole

August 1, 1999

45 min

One hour television documentary about the life and career of singer Natalie Cole which originally aired on Lifetime Television in 1998 as part of its "Intimate Portrait" series. Includes interviews with Natale Cole, Tony Bennett, Quincy Jones, Phil Ramone, David Foster, Chaka Khan, Luther Vandross, Maria Cole, Dan Cleary and narrated by Patrick Stewart.

51. Teri Garr

July 28, 1999

45 min

52. Claudia Schiffer

January 1, 1999

45 min

Meredith Vieira

Self - Host