Tuesday Weld
Maria Wyeth Lang
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Play It as It Lays is a 1972 American drama film directed by Frank Perry from a screenplay by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Didion. The film stars Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins, who previously starred together in the 1968 film Pretty Poison.
Jun 7, 1973 · Play It As It Lays: Directed by Frank Perry. With Tuesday Weld, Anthony Perkins, Tammy Grimes, Adam Roarke. A Hollywood actress undergoes a psychic breakdown and recalls the traumatic events which led to her stay at a sanitarium.
Play It as It Lays is a 1970 novel by American writer Joan Didion. Time magazine included the novel in its list of the "100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005". The novel has been credited for helping define modern American Fiction and has been described as an "instant classic".
Back at a tennis court in Los Angeles, Maria picks up television actor Johnny Waters, who takes her home and watches his show as foreplay to sex. Afterward, Maria speeds off in Johnny's car, and when Johnny reports the car stolen, the police stop her and, finding drugs in the car, arrest her.
Neglected by her husband, Maria is engaged in a series of one-night stands and becomes pregnant. Her husband divorces her, and she has an illegal abortion. Maria's only friend is B.Z., a homosexual movie producer. World weary, he tells Maria that he has discovered the meaning of life is nothing.
Burned-out B-movie actress Maria (Tuesday Weld), depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather work on his career...
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Maria Wyeth (Tuesday Weld), an ex-model and B-movie actress, strolls on the grounds of a mental hospital, recalling the traumatic events which led to her breakdown. Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
Play It as It Lays is a 1972 American drama film directed by Frank Perry. The screenplay by married couple Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne is based on Didion's 1970 novel of the same name. The film stars Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins, who previously starred together in the 1968 film Pretty Poison.
Oct 19, 1972 · Synopsis by Clarke Fountain. Play It As It Lays offers what is probably the harshest view of Hollywood to be given a major production up to the time of its release; it depicts a world of narcissistic egotists who will do anything to inflate their own sense of importance.
