Acting

Melissa Michaelsen

Acting credits

Shattered Innocence poster
6.7

A high school graduate leaves behind her modest life and finds work in the sex industry, but it ends in disaster. A dramatized account of the life of the adult actress Shauna Grant.

Shattered Innocence

1988

Orphan Train poster
5.9

A dedicated social worker organizes a train trip for a group of slum orphans in 1894, taking them from New York City to the Midwest in search of new families and new lives.

Orphan Train

1979

Broken Promise poster
7.3

A juvenile court services director strives to fight the odds following his promise to a resourceful 11-year-old to keep her and her four younger brothers and sisters together as a family after their parents abandoned them, despite a bureaucrat's insistence that it is impossible to locate a single foster home for all five.

Broken Promise

1981

Squeeze Play poster
4.0

The girlfriends of softball players decide to form their own team as a way of avenging their neglect.

Squeeze Play

1979

Goldie and the Boxer poster
5.6

Lighthearted tale of a 10-year-old girl who, when her boxer father dies, strikes up a relationship with a struggling fighter who was his sparring partner and takes on the job of managing him from obscurity to the championship.

Goldie and the Boxer

1979

Memories Never Die poster
7.0

When her husband becomes ill with heart problems, Joanne Tilford reluctantly returns to her family after a six-year stay in a mental institution. Her children are strangers to her and the woman who has been raising them is hostile to Joanne's presence.

Memories Never Die

1982

Goldie and the Boxer Go to Hollywood poster
8.0

In this sequel to 1979's "Goldie and the Boxer," the ingratiating twosome, heavyweight champ and his 10-year-old manager, flee to California when a vengeful promoter who lost a bundle on the title fight wants retribution.

Goldie and the Boxer Go to Hollywood

1981