My mom is EXACTLY like ‘Rocky.’ She NEVER gives up! Well…if we must nit-pick, they aren’t
totally alike. Rocky is a fictitious boxer and mom’s a singer. He’s younger and a man.
Other than that they are the same person! FIGHTERS.”
Hour-Long Special Airing May 6th Executive
Produced by Cher Chronicles Family Matriarch’s
Life Story from Humble Beginnings to Fashion Model and
Aspiring Hollywood Actress
and Singer to Successful Mother Raising Two Daughters
Against All Odds
LOS ANGELES, CA (April 1, 2013) – To celebrate Mother’s Day, Lifetime
will premiere the documentary
Dear Mom, Love Cher, revealing the
extraordinary life story and perseverance of Cher’s mother, Georgia Holt, on
Monday, May 6, at 10:00pm
PT/ET. The hour-long special is executive produced by Academy Award®
winner Cher, produced by Todd Hughes and written and directed by P. David
Ebersole.
Dear Mom, Love Cher provides a rare peek into Cher’s fascinating
family history and features in depth interviews with Holt, her daughters Cher
and Georganne LaPiere Bartylak, and grandchildren Chaz Bono and Elijah Blue
Allman. The documentary begins with Holt’s humble beginnings in rural Arkansas,
where she first dreamt of stardom as a little girl and continues through her six
tumultuous marriages while pursuing a career among Hollywood’s elite as a singer
and actress. Holt endures a series of dramatic personal and professional
triumphs and setbacks but survived and overcame the odds -- no matter the
challenge – to successfully raise two loving daughters. One of the daughters
would live out the dream Holt could never fulfill for herself and
Go On to
become one of the world’s biggest stars.
Dear Mom, Love Cher includes
unprecedented access to the family and features a never-before-heard duet
performance with Holt and Cher, along with the long-lost recordings Holt taped
more than three decades ago that Cher has re-mastered for commercial release
later this year, making her mother’s lifelong dream a reality.
“This project started as a gift for my mom’s 86th birthday. Like most things
in my family, it was initiated by my sister Georganne, who asked me if I could
update mom’s album. So I went BIG (I’m known in the family for doing that),”
said Cher. “My sister and I are proud of our mom and we want to share her with
the world. My mom is EXACTLY like ‘Rocky.’ She NEVER gives up! Well…if we must
nit-pick, they aren’t totally alike. Rocky is a fictitious boxer and mom’s a
singer. He’s younger and a man. Other than that they are the same person!
FIGHTERS.”
