79 Park Avenue is an American television miniseries broadcast in 1977. It was based on the Harold Robbins' novel by the same name.
It stars Lesley Ann Warren and Marc Singer as a prostitute and a mobster struggling to survive in the 1930s. David Dukes, Barbara Barrie, Raymond Burr, and Polly Bergen co-starred.
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