Complete credited cast: | |||
Liv Ullmann | ... | Ann Stanley | |
Edward Albert | ... | Peter Latham | |
Gene Kelly | ... | Billy Boylan | |
Binnie Barnes | ... | Maud Ericson | |
Deborah Raffin | ... | Trina Stanley | |
Billy Green Bush | ... | J.D. Rogers | |
Nancy Walker | ... | Mrs. Margie Margolin | |
Don Porter | ... | Mr. Latham | |
Rosemary Murphy | ... | Mrs. Latham | |
Natalie Schafer | ... | Mrs. Adams | |
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Sam Chew Jr. | ... | Arthur Forbes |
Claudia Jennings | ... | Gabriella | |
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Brooke Palance | ... | Polly |
Forty year old Norwegian-American divorcée Ann Stanley owns her own Manhattan based real estate agency specializing in upscale Manhattan apartments. She lives with her seventeen year old daughter Trina Stanley, and her mother, Maud Ericson, who acts more the teenager than Trina. Largely because of her uptight and regimented attitude, Ann has had no love in her life since divorcing her ex-husband, character actor Billy Boylan, an irresponsible man who she still loves as a friend and who she sees whenever he is in town between acting jobs and whenever he needs money from her. Ann's uptight attitude seems to have softened slightly ever since returning from a trip to Greece with Maud. What she has not told anyone is that her softened attitude is from a romantic one night only liaison with a young American man she met by happenstance by an out of the way Greek beach, he who tried to get her to be more carefree, if only for that one night. Purely by coincidence, she meets that man again in ... Written by Huggo
"40 Carats" is a surprisingly good movie. While Ullmann and Albert have little chemistry together, they nevertheless make a sweet pair, because they are both enormously appealing individually. Gene Kelly adds a few nice moments and leads a likable supporting cast. The film is slightly overlong but more mature than you might think.