An actress suffers an emotional uproar in her personal life after a fan dies trying to see her.
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Gena Rowlands | ... | Myrtle Gordon | |
| John Cassavetes | ... | Maurice Aarons | |
| Ben Gazzara | ... | Manny Victor | |
| Joan Blondell | ... | Sarah Goode | |
| Paul Stewart | ... | David Samuels | |
| Zohra Lampert | ... | Dorothy Victor | |
| Laura Johnson | ... | Nancy Stein | |
| John Tuell | ... | Gus Simmons | |
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Ray Powers | ... | Jimmy |
| John Finnegan | ... | Bobby | |
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Louise Lewis | ... | Kelly (as Louise Fitch) |
| Fred Draper | ... | Leo | |
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Katherine Cassavetes | ... | Vivian |
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Lady Rowlands | ... | Melva Drake |
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Carol Warren | ... | Carla |
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A young woman gets killed in an accident trying to meet her favorite actress Myrtle Gordon after a play. Then Myrtle Gordon felt responsible for the killing leading her down to an emotional crisis that interferes with her professional work as an actress. Written by Chemi González <chemi01@hotmail.com>
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artistic creation | alcoholic | obsessed fan | spiritualist | opening night |Genres:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
17 April 1978 (Sweden) See more »Also Known As:
Opening Night See more »Filming Locations:
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Opening Weekend USA:
$10,491, 19 May 1991Gross USA:
$23,488Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$23,488Company Credits
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Myrtle Gordon: Okay.
Maurice Aarons: I have a small part. It's unsympathetic. The audience doesn't like me. I can't afford to be in love with you.
Myrtle Gordon: Good night.
Maurice Aarons: Yeah, good night.
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John Cassavetes performed a number of roles on this film. Cassavetes was an actor, the writer, and the director. See more »Goofs
A bus rolls by the New Haven theater with an ad for KBIG FM 104, a Los Angeles station. See more »Quotes
Maurice Aarons: You're not a woman to me anymore. You're a professional. You don't care about anything, do you? You don't care about personal relationships, love, sex, affection.Myrtle Gordon: Okay.
Maurice Aarons: I have a small part. It's unsympathetic. The audience doesn't like me. I can't afford to be in love with you.
Myrtle Gordon: Good night.
Maurice Aarons: Yeah, good night.
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Full of interesting ideas and really rather chilling at times, this account of a mental breakdown is fascinating to watch, with Gena Rowlands a glorious choice for the lead. It is in the way that Rowlands is able to carry emotion on her face that makes her performance so stunning, and along with some well used music and effective close-up photography, it is an intriguing piece of cinema, even if awkwardly very melodramatic at times and a tad hard to digest. The on and off-stage action in the protagonist's life is mixed together, and it is sort of muddled in this sense, though perhaps only as muddled as her mind is. The film poses such interesting questions about how much one should or does care, it portrays mental illness, and, it also has some insight into theatre production. It is very good stuff and only really brought down by being fatally overlong, with the content stretched to its limits.