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The Lonely Lady
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Director:
Writers:
Harold Robbins (novel)
Ellen Shepard (adaptation)
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Release Date:
30 September 1983 (USA) more
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From the sensual world of Harold Robbins comes the story of a woman's struggle for fame in Hollywood.
Plot:
A young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of "making it" in Hollywood. full summary | add synopsis
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6 wins & 7 nominations more
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Best. Gay. Week. Ever. (March 13, 2009)
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Total Cheese-fest! more (32 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Pia Zadora ... Jerilee Randall
Lloyd Bochner ... Walter Thornton
Bibi Besch ... Veronica Randall
Joseph Cali ... Vincent Dacosta
Anthony Holland ... Guy Jackson

Jared Martin ... George Ballantine

Ray Liotta ... Joe Heron
Carla Romanelli ... Carla Maria Peroni
Olivier Pierre ... George Fox
Kendal Kaldwell ... Joanne Castel
Lou Hirsch ... Bernie

Kerry Shale ... Walt Thornton Jnr
Sandra Dickinson ... Nancy Day
Shane Rimmer ... Adolph Fannon
Nancy Wood ... Janie
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Harold Robbins' The Lonely Lady (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
92 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Ray Liotta's feature film debut. more
Quotes:
Guy: Bud, this is Jerilee. She's Mr. Thornton's assistant.
Bud: Sure. I hope you can spell, darling.
Jerilee: D - A - R - L - I - N - G
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YOU ARE EVERYTHING TO ME more

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Total Cheese-fest!, 10 September 2002
Author: dgordon-1 from Toronto, Canada

When I initially saw this movie in the '80s I thought it was so bad, I couldn't watch it all the way through. Subsequent viewings of it on TV were the same. I never really saw the whole movie in it's entirety. I seemed to always come in at the same parts, either the garden hose scene or the psychedelic/Andy Warholish nervous breakdown scene. It was never shown on commercial television here in Toronto, it always seemed to be played on the premium movie channels (First Choice/Superchannel,later to be TMN/Moviepix) I guess they received this movie for really cheap from the distributor. Watching it recently in it's entirety was a real eye-opener! I don't know if it's the nostalgia factor, or just the fact that I am older and going senile, but I thought that this movie was "so bad, that it was so good" The bad acting, and the awful characters that are very unlikable would make most people turn off this movie. For me I went out and bought the video! I don't blame Pia Zadora's character for going off the deep-end at her typewriter. It just seemed most of the characters were really vile-I take it that this was to show how ruthless Hollywood can be...what a joke! If you want to see a comedy about how a movie should not be made, check out "The Lonely Lady"-it's a great waste of time!!

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