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Director:
Sidney Lumet
Writers:
Mary McCarthy (novel)
Sidney Buchman (screenplay)
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Release Date:
4 March 1966 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl's school... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(3 articles)
Holiday Preview: A Repertory Calendar
 (From IFC. 3 November 2009, 1:01 PM, PST)
Books: Review: A Fortunate Age
 (From The AV Club. 13 May 2009, 10:00 PM, PDT)
User Comments:
Terrific Performances In One Truly Unique Motion Picture... more (19 total)

Cast

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Candice Bergen ... Lakey
Joan Hackett ... Dottie
Elizabeth Hartman ... Priss
Shirley Knight ... Polly
Joanna Pettet ... Kay
Mary-Robin Redd ... Pokey

Jessica Walter ... Libby
Kathleen Widdoes ... Helena
James Broderick ... Dr. Ridgeley
James Congdon ... Sloan Crockett

Larry Hagman ... Harald Peterson
Hal Holbrook ... Gus Leroy

Richard Mulligan ... Dick Brown
Robert Emhardt ... Mr. Andrews
Carrie Nye ... Norine
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Runtime:
USA:150 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
West Germany:16 | USA:Approved | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:15
Filming Locations:
New York City, New York, USA
Company:
Famartists Productions S.A. more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Hal Holbrook's first film. more
Goofs:
Miscellaneous: Kathleen Widdoes, as Helena, arguing politics with Norine, says, "The whole class voted for Roosevelt," when she means "the whole group". Pauline Kael, who was watching the filming and following the script, wrote that she pointed this mistake out to director Sidney Lumet, but he never corrected it. more
Quotes:
Libby: I'm appalled by all this vulgar breeding. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 (1999) (TV) more

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Terrific Performances In One Truly Unique Motion Picture..., 1 September 1999
Author: Tirelli from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

One of Sidney Lumet's first directing attempts is a brilliant, powerful and undeniably courageous motion picture - not at all a sprawling frenzy of feelings strung by hammy performances and corny dialogues, this film is a rather organized , neat telling of eight graduates from Vassar-like college and their respective lives and times, that in it's own quiet way, became a masterpiece of great beauty, displaying strong, formidable performances by Pettet - as Kay Strong, a lovely young lady whose promissing future is teared to shreds as her cruel Play Writing husband ruins her life and slowly corrompts her mental sanity -, Hackett - as Dottie Renfrew, whose heart is broken by young, hip bohemian, that steels her virginity and commits herself to a futile, selfish fate - and Hartman(One Of The Most Wonderful Actresses That Ever Lived, And Whose Life Was Brought To A Horrid Ending, As She Comitted Suicide, Jumping Off Her Apartment Window) - as a pure , fragile young girl that has agonizing experiments with pregnancy and breast-feeding, as well as other cast members, like Bergen, Widdoes, fascinating Knight and Walter. This is adapted from Mary MacCarthy's brilliant novel, launched at the same time as 'Valley Of The Dolls', Jacqueline Sussan's hideous all-american best-seller - although' they both treat of feminine sagas, they are surely not to be confused.

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