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Sweet Bird of Youth (also known as Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth) is a 1989 American made-for-television drama film directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Mark Harmon. Adapted from the 1959 Tennessee Williams play of the same name by Gavin Lambert , it focuses on the relationship between a drifter and a faded movie star.
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Sweet Bird of Youth: Directed by Nicolas Roeg. With Elizabeth Taylor, Mark Harmon, Valerie Perrine, Kevin Geer. Aging movie star Alexandra del Lago, also known as Princess Kosmonopolis (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), fears her career is over due to her fading youthful looks. She takes up with a handsome young man, Chance Wayne (Mark Harmon), who once ...
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Sweet Bird of Youth. 1989 · 1 hr 36 min. TV-14. Drama · Romance. Tennessee Williams’ tale of an aging film star and her steamy affair with a younger wannabe actor, speaks to the elusiveness of dreams and ambitions. Subtitles: English. Starring: Elizabeth Taylor Mark Harmon Valerie Perrine Kevin Geer Rip Torn. Directed by: Nicolas Roeg.
- Nicolas Roeg
- January 1, 1989
- 96 min
'Sweet Bird of Youth' is not quite 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof', 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'The Glass Menagerie', but it is nonetheless classic Williams and one of his best. Due to many things, the powerful emotional impact, challenging themes daring and ahead of the time to tackle back then, richly drawn characters and intelligent, realistic ...
Sweet Bird of Youth (TV Movie 1989) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Director. Gavin Lambert. Teleplay. Tennessee Williams. Writer. 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.
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A Passionate Romance. 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. Cast. Crew.
