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Director:

Sidney Lumet

Writers:

Zoe Akins (play)
Augustus Goetz (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

22 April 1958 (USA) more

Genre:

Drama | Romance more

Tagline:

Ten thousand girls dream her dream every night.

Plot:

The movie tells the story of Eva, a girl who comes to New York in order to become a great actress. With... more | add synopsis

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Cast

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Henry Fonda ... Lewis Easton
Susan Strasberg ... Eva Lovelace
Joan Greenwood ... Rita Vernon
Herbert Marshall ... Robert Harley Hedges

Christopher Plummer ... Joe Sheridan
Daniel Ocko ... Constantine
Pat Harrington Jr. ... Benny
Frank Campanella ... Benny
John Fiedler ... Adrian
Jack Weston ... Frank
Sally Gracie ... Elizabeth
Nina Hansen ... Regina
Harold Grau ... Stage Doorman
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Additional Details

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

According to the March 9th, 1957 issue of Boxoffice Magazine, Bernard Herrmann was originally going to compose the music for this film. more

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If you love the Theatah, 14 January 2005
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Author: dannywolo from San Francisco

I happened upon this movie and found it so moving. Mostly it was the performances but a large part of the reason I loved it was the pictures obvious love for the Theatre. A love I share. In the film, Fonda is amazing. Complicated and 3D, subtle and larger than life. Ms Strassberg, though vocally somewhat stiff and mannered is so alive and vibrant, young and beautiful. I thought her Juliet speech was again vocally stiff, but inside of that was an amazing, young, excited, perfect Juliet. Every word was felt and communicated in an immediate sincere way that is hardly ever achieved in the role. The detail of THEATRE in NEW YORK in the 50's is wonderful. The Stageheands reading the paper as they flip switches, the STAGE DOOR, curtain calls, the adrenaline of opening night. I could go on and on, but as one who loves backstage type melodrama this one is a feast.

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