Sweet Bird of Youth

Overview

Tennessee William’s masterful melodrama about an aging movie star who, appalled by her own image on the screen, flees from her movie premiere and goes into seclusion, becoming entangled with a much younger hotel masseur and resident gigolo.

Directed by Nicolas Roeg

Top cast

Elizabeth Taylor

Alexandra Del Lago

Mark Harmon

Chance Wayne

Valerie Perrine

Miss Lucy

Seymour Cassel

Hatcher

Rip Torn

Boss Finley

K

Kevin Geer

Tom Junior

Ronnie Claire Edwards

Aunt Nonnie

C

Cheryl Paris

Heavenly Finley

Megan Blake

Violet

M

Martha Milliken

Virginia

Charles Lucia

Dr. George Scudder

Teddy Wilson

Fly

John Fleck

Mission Man

Tom Nolan

Billy Ray Sharkey

Scotty

M

Michael Wilding, Jr.

Morton Frasier

H

Hal England

Minister

Ruta Lee

Sally Powers

N

Nurit Koppel

Edna

M

Michael Shaner

Driver

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