Joanna Kerns Trailers
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Joanna Crussie DeVarona Kerns is an American actress and director best known for her role as Maggie Seaver on the family situation comedy Growing Pains from 1985 to 1992.
After Growing Pains ended, she turned to directing. She directed one episode of Growing Pains while starring on the show and got hooked. She has also directed episodes of television shows including Dawson's Creek, Titans, Scrubs, Private Practice, Psych, Felicity, Grey's Anatomy, Privileged, ER, Ghost Whisperer, Army Wives, Pretty Little Liars, Switched at Birth, The Goldbergs, This Is Us, and Fuller House.
She has also made notable appearances in feature films, including A*P*E, Girl, Interrupted, and the 2007 comedy Knocked Up. She has also starred in a number of TV movies.
In 1974, Kerns met a commercial producer, Richard Kerns, on the set of a commercial, and they married two years later. Their marriage lasted nine years and the couple had a daughter, Ashley Cooper. In 1994, she married Marc Appleton, a prominent Los Angeles architect. In August 2019, she filed for divorce from Appleton.
She previously dated comedian and actor Freddie Prinze a short time before he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The two had worked together on the 1976 TV movie, The Million Dollar Rip-Off.
Most Popular Joanna Kerns Trailers
Total trailers found: 44
23 July 1976
A newly discovered 36-foot gorilla escapes from a freighter off the coast of Korea. At the same time an American actress is filming a movie in the country.
05 February 1988
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them.
21 December 1999
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy.
01 June 2007
A slacker and a career-driven woman accidentally conceive a child after a one-night stand. As they try to make the relationship work, they must navigate the challenges of parenthood and their differences in lifestyle and maturity.
21 February 1975
TV adaptation of the campy 1960s Broadway musical about the Man of Steel, his friends, his enemies, and his self-image problems.
13 April 1997
A woman urges her daughter to get married. And when her daughter does, she doesn't think that she made a good choice.
16 April 1996
Fifteen-year-old Deena Marten wants the same freedom every teenager craves. But when she can't have her way, her rebellious temperament erupts in violence.
13 December 1987
A man and a woman go out on a "big" third date. He's ashamed to admit he just lost his job, and she's afraid he'll run away if he finds out that she has a kid.
20 October 2017
When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head.
24 September 1995
Two mothers, one biological, one stepmother, fight for the custody and love of 13-year-old Andrea.
02 February 1982
Erin Walton is considering marrying her boyfriend Paul but her old boyfriend Ashley, who left for the war and married someone else, lived through his wife's death and would like to get Erin back, but Paul is not going to give her up so easily.
04 November 2000
When the Seaver family reunites in Washington, D.C., to celebrate Jason and Maggie's 30th wedding anniversary, Maggie startles everyone when she announces her plans to run for Congress.
27 May 1985
The tables turn for cynical police officer Richard Beck when he's viciously attacked by two homicidal crooks.
16 May 1984
Marcus Welby is back, and he has a few problems. First he is trying to bridge the gap between an old friend of his who gave up practicing medicine in favor of being the hospital administrator, and his son who is now a doctor and who is currently treating and romancing a woman who has kidney problems.
01 January 1987
A forgotten CIA agent escapes after 12 years and returns to his corrupt New Jersey hometown.
28 February 1993
Veronica Ricci is bombarded by strange feelings and fleeting involuntary memories about her childhood after giving birth to her first child.
06 January 1978
A young female doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas.
05 October 1992
Sixteen-year-old Cassie Robbins is a spirited teenage girl, who loves her father Richard and stepmother Mel and dotes on her six-year-old half-brother Willy.
06 May 1997
A woman (Joanna Kerns), at odds with her eccentric sister (Debrah Farentino) over a real-estate deal, becomes the prime suspect when the latter is found dead.
27 July 1994
A couple manages to quit smoking by using hypnosis, but then their children decide to use it to manipulate their parents into more submissive behavior.
19 October 2024
Amid family drama and dysfunction, a woman who carries a BRCA gene mutation must decide whether or not to remove her breasts and ovaries to reduce her cancer risk.
23 July 2003
After a paedophile approaches her daughter in an on-line chat room, a homemaker (Annie Potts) poses as a lonely teenager to help expose sexual predators.
28 March 1993
A married doctor marries two other women and juggles a life with three wives.
03 November 1999
When Thomas, a prominent doctor, hires a hitman to murder his wife, Elizabeth, the hitman decides to help Elizabeth after realizing she is not the person Thomas painted her to be.
11 November 1990
After a series of small tremors in Los Angeles, Dr. Clare Winslow, a local seismologist, pinpoints the exact location and time of when the long awaited earthquake--"The Big One"--will strike southern California.
11 February 1996
Fact-based drama about a smalltown rape victim who helps the police trap her attacker who has invaded her home again and again.
08 January 1995
Jane Ravenson finds herself in the middle of a grocery store with $10,000 in her coat pockets and no memory of her life or who she is.
24 September 1989
This is the story of a young woman who was found dead. Now the police investigate, and evidence points to a man she was seen leaving a party with.
28 February 1991
Behind the scenes making of the charity single "Voices That Care".
05 April 1985
An aging motor-cross racer, already having lost his wife and daughter to his footlooseness and now about to have his semi-tractor cab repossessed, vows to make one last go of it on his bike in the race of his career.
11 October 1991
Paul and Kathy Plunk buy a small motel in a lonesome mountain region in Oregon. Their newfound tranquility is broken by a pair of guests who turn out to be wanted criminals on run from the police.
02 May 1982
Mary Ellen marries Jonesy but they don't exactly have a good start.
25 February 1985
A dramatization of Gloria Steinem's undercover investigation of the working conditions Bunnies faced at the Playboy Clubs.
06 March 1989
Scott and Sue Grimes are a happily married and affluent young couple who are about to start a family together.
08 February 1992
A drifter comes between an aging Southern beauty and her teenaged daughter.
18 October 1998
A lonely retirement home resident obtains a magical ring on her 75th birthday which grants her wish to again be young.
25 January 1980
A talented wedding photographer, at a crossroads with his own marriage, reflects on tales of past clients and the hope, adversity and romance that holy matrimony brings.
20 November 1994
Based on the provocative best-selling novel, a brilliant scientist finds the hidden link that can save countless lives, but when a crazed killer uses the same information to play God, millions are at risk.
10 August 2001
A contemporary romantic comedy exploring the unlikely pairing of two 20-somethings thrown together by their respective best friends in hopes of igniting their own romance.
11 February 1991
A doctor was sent to prison for the attempted murder of his first wife. When he is released, he starts to plan the death of his second wife whom he married before he was incarcerated.
01 January 1986
Love Struck is a 1986 short film directed by Richard Masur, starring John Simon Jones and Judge Reinhold.
22 September 1976
An electronics genius, who is an ex-con, and four of his lady friends devise a plot to steal millions of dollars from the Chicago Transit Authority.
10 October 1993
A woman and her children seemingly live the idyllic suburban dream, but unbeknownst to their neighbors and friends, the kids are being brutally abused by their father who is unable to control his temper.
16 October 2004
Jason and Maggie Seaver are ready to start a new chapter in their lives. The nest is finally empty, they've put the family home up for sale, and they're preparing to spend their retirement years traveling.
