The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

In 1972 Newman helmed The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, which was based on Paul Zindel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Woodward starred as an overbearing mother whose daughters long to escape from her domineering presence. The potent The Shadow Box (1980) was a made-for-TV movie about the interaction…

…a vulgar alcoholic mother in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972), again under Newman’s direction.