Alison Steadman Mike Leigh's "Abigail's Party", which she reprised with the original cast on television. She won an Olivier Award for "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice", and also appeared in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", "Entertaining Mr Sloane", "Hotel Paradiso", and others in locations as diverse as the Royal Court, the Theatre Royal, the Old Vic, the Hampstead Theatre, the Nottingham Playhouse, the Everyman Liverpool and the National Theatre. She starred as Elmire in the 1983 RSC production of Molière's "Tartuffe", which was adapted for BBC television. In 2010, Steadman was cast as Madame Arcati in a revival of
Sunshine (1973 film) film "retained her spirit, and many of the words from her tapes." Some critics also viewed Helton's story as having inspired a second made-for-TV movie, "Message To My Daughter" starring Bonnie Bedelia and Martin Sheen, which was first aired on December 12, 1973 on ABC. In "Message", the dying mother of a baby girl makes tape recordings of advice which her daughter receives many years after the mother's death. However, the film's writer and director denied that "Message" was inspired by Helton, and said that the script was written before "Sunshine". Parts of the film were shot on location in