Jewel

In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down's syndrome.

Cast

Farrah Fawcett

as Jewel Hilburn

Patrick Bergin

as Leston Hilburn

Cicely Tyson

as Cathedral

Robin Dunne

as Wilman Hilburn (Age 18-26)

Peter Donaldson

as Nathan White

Laura Mercer

as Brenda Kay Hilburn (Age 8-9)

Ashley Wolfe

as Brenda Kay Hilburn-Age 16

Kelly Harms

as Burton Hilburn (Age 19-27)

Ron Payne

as Dr. Basket

Kristin Booth

as Annie Hilburn (Age 19)

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