Sweet Bird of Youth
- Director: Richard Brooks
- Writer: Tennessee Williams; Richard Brooks
- Producer: Pandro S. Berman; Kathryn Hereford
CGiii Comment
Williams and his inability to take his characters out of the South.
The same overwrought characters pound at you ears mercilessly...with their caterwauling.
Isn't it about time that people woke up and drank the coffee - Williams was a hack writer.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. Arriving with him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago. While trying to get her help to make a screen test, he also finds the time to meet his former girlfriend Heavenly, the daughter of the local politician Tom 'Boss' Finley, who more or less forced him to leave the town many years ago.
Cast & Characters
Paul Newman as Chance Wayne;
Geraldine Page as Alexandra Del Lago;
Shirley Knight as Heavenly Finley;
Ed Begley as Tom 'Boss' Finley;
Rip Torn as Thomas 'Tom' J. Finley, Jr.;
Mildred Dunnock as Aunt Nonnie;
Madeleine Sherwood as Miss Lucy;
Philip Abbott as Dr. George Scudder;
Corey Allen as Scotty;
Barry Cahill as Bud;
Dub Taylor as Dan Hatcher;
James B. Douglas as Leroy;
Barry Atwater as Ben Jackson;
Charles Arnt as Mayor Henricks;
Dorothy Konrad as Mrs. Maribelle Norris