Earth Angel was a 1991 TV movie directed by Joe Napolitano and starring Cindy Williams and Cathy Podewell.
Joseph Ralph Napolitano in Udine, Italy is an American film and television director who has worked in the film and television industries since the mid-1970s directing both TV films and multiple episodic series. Napolitano's television credits include directing 12 episodes of Quantum Leap, 2... episodes of The X-Files, 2 episodes of Picket Fences, 3 episodes of The Pretenders, 2 episodes of L.A. Doctors, 2 episodes of Dawson's Creek, 4 episodes of Boston Public, and 14 episodes of Strong Medicine, as well as the 1991 film Earth Angel, and the 1997 film Contagious. The film Contagious earned an American Latino Media Arts Award for actress Elizabeth Peña for 'Outstanding Actress in a Made-for-Television Movie or Mini-Series'. In the 1980s, Napolitano's work included acting as assistant director on feature film projects, working on films with directors Brian Hutton, Danny DeVito, Stuart Rosenberg, Donald Bellisario, Ron Howard, Howard Zieff, Terry Gilliam, Antoine Fuqua, and on multiple projects directed by Brian De Palma.more