About tennis champion Maureen Connolly (Glynnis O'Connor), who died of cancer at 34 in 1969. "Teach": Michael Learned. Jess: Anne Baxter. Gus: Claude Akins. Folsom: Martin Milner. Sophie: Anne Francis. Norman: Mark Harmon. Fisher: Leslie Nielsen. Tony Trabert: Himself. Directed by Daniel Haller.