An actress suffers an emotional uproar in her personal life after a fan dies trying to see her.
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John CassavetesWriter:
John Cassavetes
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| 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 | |
| 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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Myrtle Gordon: Hope.
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Final film of actress Katherine Cassavetes, the mother of actor-writer-director John Cassavetes. See more »Goofs
Myrtle walks from the bar towards Maurice with a glass of whiskey, but he declines and leaves the room. The long shot still shows her holding the glass in her left hand, but upon returning to the bar she holds no glass. See more »Quotes
Sarah Goode: Just please tell me what this play doesn't express.Myrtle Gordon: Hope.
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17 April 1978 (Sweden) See more »Also Known As:
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$10,491, 19 May 1991Gross USA:
$23,488Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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Opening Night is my favorite Cassavetes, and I feel it is my duty to debunk the notion that those or any of his films aside from Shadows was strictly improvised. In fact, his films were tightly scripted after actor improvisation was used to contribute to his ideas. The coherence of a film like Opening Night, the development of the themes of aging, vanity, and hope, could not just spring from the improvisational head of even the very fine actors in the movie. If you pay attention to the dialogue (outside of the lines in the play), it is obvious that much care was taken to craft them (e.g., the scene where Myrtle explains to the playwright what problems she is having with the character and script).