a Hallmark Movie within a Hallmark Movie!

As I was looking through images of the upcoming Hallmark Channel movie Stranded in Paradise I saw this picture of actress Vanessa Marcil where she looks like she is taking some leisure time on the beach reading a book.

Curiosity got the best of me, so I took a look closer at the book she is reading and low and behold the book is Diann Hunt's For Better or For Worse, which incidentally, just recently became a Hallmark Channel movie! I can't help but wonder, will she mention the book in this movie? Or, is the book just merely a prop? See the movie Stranded in Paradise, which stars Vanessa Marcil and James Denton, on August 9th, 2014 on the Hallmark Channel!

Seeing this picture reminded me that I know of 2 more Hallmark Movies, which have references to other Hallmark Movies.

Here they are...

The first movie is A Carol Christmas,which stars Tori Spelling as a Talk Show host. If you look closely when Carol (Tori) is walking down a hallway at work, there is a poster in the background for the Hallmark Movie Straight from the Heart.

The second movie with another Hallmark movie reference is the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie Silver Bells. At the beginning of the movie, the young girl says she wants to watch a Christmas Movie that night. A Season For Miracles. Which is, of course, another Hallmark Hall of Fame Movie!

Have you ever caught another Hallmark movie moment like this in another Hallmark movie? If so, please share! And, let's be sure to keep our eyes and ears open for more!

Hallmark Channel Movie "For Better or For Worse" starring Lisa Whelchel and Kim Fields from "Facts of Life"

For Better or For Worse
by Diann Hunt

MOVIE REVIEW


For Better or For Worse

Network: Hallmark Channel

Original Air Date: July 19, 2014


This movie is based on the bestselling novel For Better or For Worse written by Author, Diann Hunt. (please see more on Diann Hunt below.)

CAST:

Lisa Whelchel ... Wendy
Kim Fields ... Roseanne
Antonio Cupo ... Marco
Jovanna Huguet ... Candice Jones
Hilary Jardine ... Emily
Alison Wandzura ... Vanessa
Eddie Ruttle ... Collin
Rose Ranger ... Flower Shop Customer
Patrick Keating ... Cliff
Dustin Lloyd ... Robert


PLOT:

via Hallmark Press Release:

A heartwarming romantic comedy about a woman who learns that perhaps there is such a thing as second chances when facing the pleasures and pains of love.

Wendy (Whelchel) is finally starting to settle into the single life after struggling with the death of her husband. After a difficult season of grief, she's taken over the family business of coordinating the town's most beautiful and memorable weddings with the help of her friend and co-worker Roseanne (Fields). However, when the charming and incredibly irritating Marco (Cupo) opens a legal practice that specializes in divorces right next to her wedding chapel, Wendy is going to make sure that she stops at nothing to promote her business and the sanctity of marriage. Along the way, Wendy learns that self-discovery and moving on are the ways to finding true happiness.

Movie Review:

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On the Author, Diann Hunt:

I am sad to share that author, Diann Hunt, passed away on November 29, 2013, following a long battle with cancer. She was 58. Diann left behind a beautiful family, her husband, two children, seven grandchildren, and dear friends, to whom we extend our deepest sympathies and prayers. Diann had written 25 faith-filled books. Her writings have certainly touched my life and the lives of many of her readers.

This is how Diann Hunt is described in the dust jacket, of many of her books... "Diann Hunt wrote romantic comedy and humorous women's fiction targeted to Christian women of the Baby Boomer generation. She'd lived in Indiana forever, had been happily married forever, loved her family, chocolate, her friends, her dog, and, well, chocolate."

I know many of her fans are excited to see her work developed for this Hallmark Movie.

Please let me know in the comments below, if you have read any of Diann Hunt's books. I absolutely loved the "Smitten" Book Series, in which see had written one of the four Novellas in each book, along with writers and friends, Colleen Coble, Denise Hunter, and Kristin Billerbeck.


Actresses Lisa Whelchel and Kim Fields:

"For Better or For Worse" stars actresses Lisa Whelchel and Kim Fields, who both starred in the popular 1980's sitcom, "Facts of Life", where teenage girls, Blair (Lisa Whelchel), Jo, Natalie, and Tootie (Kim Fields) lived at a boarding school under the watchful eye of Mrs. Garret.

 

Facts of Life - Flashback Pics:

Lisa Whelchel and Kim Fields

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