When Love Came to Town

About this Broadcast

A successful novelist with a disastrous love life is enchanted by a quirky small town, and decides to settle down there. The friendly locals immediately start conspiring to find her the kind of perfect man she has written about so many times but never met in real life. Romantic comedy based on Rhonda Rich's novel, starring Lauren Holly and Valerie Harper

2014 continued

Comedy Literary Adaptation Movie/Drama Romance

Cast & Crew

Lauren Holly (Actor) .. Abby Houston

Valerie Harper (Actor) .. Charlotte

Cameron Bancroft (Actor) .. Spencer Alexander

Lucie Guest (Actor) .. Jamie

Iris Quinn (Actor) .. Miss Lizzie Beth

Lindsay Gibson (Actor) .. Lorraine

Garrett Black (Actor) .. Deputy Rickey

Barbara Wallace (Actor) .. Miss Eula

David Winning (Director)

More Information

Did You Know..

Lauren Holly (Actor) .. Abby Houston

Born: October 28, 1963 in Bristol, Pennsylivania

Best Known For: Playing the love interest in Dumb & Dumber.

Early-life: Born Lauren Michael Holly in Bristol, Pennsylivania, on October 28, 1963. Her father is an English literature, her mother teaches art history. Lauren's younger brother, Nick, is a literary agent. She had another brother, Alex, who died in a fire in 1992 when he was 14. She graduated from Geneva High School in New York where she was a cheerleader, before attending the prestigious Sarah Lawrence College. She left there in 1985 with a degree in English literature.

Career: After graduating, Lauren moved to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, making her TV debut in Hill Street Blues. Less than a year later, she landed a role on the soap opera All My Children. Other TV credits include Chicago Hope and Picket Fences, and she's appeared in a number of films including What Women Want, No Looking Back, Any Given Sunday, Sabrina, Turbulence, Beautiful Girls, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, A Smile Like Yours, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, Down Periscope, Entropy and The Last Producer. On the small screen, she has starred in NCIS, Leverage, Rookie Blue, Alphas and Motive.

Quote: "I've never had that star aura."

Trivia: Holly became a Canadian citizen in 2008.