If one reads Wikapedia about teach in real life she died in 1963, so the movie was so wrong about the fact that she and Little Mo made up. It's crazy that teach narrated Little's Mo's death then, Also Little Mo and Norman's daughters were really 12 and 9 when she died.They made the girls look much younger and in reality Tracey Gold was really 9 and Missy Gold was only 7. With these distortions, I wonder how much was actually true, except for Little Mo's sports victories and her marriage. In fact, they make it that teach walked out on Little Mo, but Little Mo actually fired teach herself.It was very entertaining, but not very factual.

One of the best television movies ever made is about the life and career of Maureen Connolly the first woman to win tennis's fabled grand slam in one year. Both her career and her life were way too short.Before Billie Jean King, before Chris Evert, before Tracy Austin there was a champion from the Fifties, Maureen Connolly. At the age of 19 Ms. Connolly won the US Open, Wimbledon, the French Open and the Australian Open in 1953. The Grand Slam, the biggest achievement in tennis, and for the first time won by a woman.Glynnis O'Connor as far as I'm concerned got her career role as Maureen Connolly. She was at the right age at the time and later on at the end of the film she was made up well to look the age of 34 when she died. Connolly came from a pretty hard background and tennis was her way out, a sports story told many times with male athletes. Michael Learned does an equally fine job as Eleanor Tennant, Connolly's very strict mentor. The tennis scene of the early Fifties is graphically depicted. Within two years of winning the grand slam, Connolly was injured pursuing her second love horseback riding, a broken leg ended her career permanently. Who knows how many titles and how much money she could have accumulated.In fact I'd read about Connolly when I was a kid and she pretty much dropped out of sight after her career ended. For a lot of people the news of her death from cancer in 1969 was the first thing most had heard about her since she stopped appearing on the sports pages. O'Connor's finale scene as the 34 year old Connolly knowing she was terminally ill and reconciling with Learned is some of the best acting ever done in a TV film. Little Mo is a great tribute to one of the best female athletes of the last century and a role model in sports and in life for us all.

I absolutely love this movie! Glynnis O'Connor's performance was spectacular. And the story is at once inspiring and heartbreaking. I saw it in 1978 and it has stuck with me for all these years. Unfortunately, I've been unable to locate a DVD or video, nor have I seen it replayed on television. I have seen a documentary in which friends and family of Little Mo refer to the movie. Everyone seems pleased with both the content, and the performances.Please, someone tell me how I can find a copy of this movie to share with my daughter? Thank you, Bobbi

Every year when Wimbledon is on, I wonder why this movie is not shown on TV. Maureen Connolly was the first woman to win all grand slam titles in one calendar year yet there is no book about her. Connolly's life is the stuff of drama and O'Connor gives us a real feel for how working your way up the ranks of tennis worked then. Disfunctional families now seem almost mandatory for a top-seeded player, but during Connolly's time, the public didn't know such things. Though the Wimbledon segments were not shot there, the film reproduces the landmarks and signage faithfully. I know, I went to Wimbledon in 1993 and saw her name on the sign by Centre Court.I can only assume the film is basically factual as I've never found any book with enough information about this fascinating woman to know. All I know is that the film works very well and O'Connor is radiant. I really love this movie!