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Director:
Writers:
Polly Adler (book)
Clarence Greene (writer)
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Release Date:
November 1964 (Austria) more
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Tagline:
No One Knew Her Business Better Than Polly Adler!
Plot:
Based on Polly Adler's best-selling autobiography about her life in the Roaring Twenties as a legendary Madam... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
NewsDesk:
Shelley Winters: 1920-2006
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Trashy, misogynistic Grade B filming of "Madam" Polly Adler's memoirs more (5 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Shelley Winters ... Polly Adler

Robert Taylor ... Frank Costigan

Cesar Romero ... Lucky Luciano
Ralph Taeger ... Casey Booth
Kaye Ballard ... Sidonia

Broderick Crawford ... Harrigan
Mickey Shaughnessy ... Police Sergeant Riordan

Lisa Seagram ... Madge
Meri Welles ... Lorraine
Jesse White ... Rafferty
Connie Gilchrist ... Hattie Miller
Constance Dane ... Laura
Allyson Ames ... Gwen
Lewis Charles ... Angelo
Steve Peck ... Vince
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Additional Details

Runtime:
98 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Although Raquel Welch and Edy Williams both received billing as call girls and appeared in some publicity stills, it is impossible to spot either of them in the finished film. more
Soundtrack:
House is Not A Home more

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Trashy, misogynistic Grade B filming of "Madam" Polly Adler's memoirs, 26 January 2001
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This is a pretty bad film. The acting and direction are non-existent. Robert Taylor seems terminally depressed that he has to appear in such drivel. Cameos by Broderick Crawford and Caesar Romero are forgettable. Shelley Winters would seem perfect casting for this saga of a NY "Madam" in the twenties and thirties and she does try to breathe life into it but all around her is SOOOO BADDDD, she soon succumbs. Edith Head earned one of her 35 Oscar noms for the Costume Design, but though the film is set in the 1920s, there is no attempt to recreate period costumes. What the ladies wear looks awfully 1964. Go figure. The design taken on its own terms is varied and attractive so I won't quibble. The performance by Meri Wells as Lorraine is excruciatingly bad. About all one has to console oneself with is Winters doing her damndest to take it all seriously and hunk Ralph Taeger (who appeared in only half a dozen films). The film is terribly misogynistic, treats the women as helpless victims of man's lust and the men are all creeps. Don't go out of your way to see this one.

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