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All the Fine Young Cannibals is a 1960 American drama film directed by Michael Anderson, starring Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Susan Kohner, George Hamilton, and Pearl Bailey. Hamilton said that the film "combined Southern Gothic with a biopic of jazzman Chet Baker ."
Loosely based on Rosamond Marshall's novel, The Bixby Girls, All the Fine Young Cannibals also incorporates some biographical details from the life of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker mixed in with a dash of Tennessee Williams Southern Gothic.
- Michael Anderson, Al Jennings
- Robert Wagner
Based on the life of jazz trumpet legend Chet Baker and the book The Bixby Sisters (I believe that's the title, I own it somewhere), this is the most amazing film.
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- Michael Anderson
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- Robert Wagner
A bizarre blend of teenage angst movie and Cassavetes-style drama that has Robert Wagner as Chet Baker in all but name. The minister of the town has died and his son Chad (Wagner) has no tears for him. Sarah (Natalie Wood) - who now calls herself 'Salome' - is pregnant with Chad's baby, but Chad.
The 1960 film All the Fine Young Cannibals, starring Robert Wagner as a jazz trumpeter named Chad Bixby, was loosely inspired by Baker. The 1999 film version of The Talented Mr. Ripley, Matt Damon plays a master of mimicry who imitates Baker's recording of "My Funny Valentine" from Chet Baker Sings.
All the Fine Young Cannibals: Directed by Michael Anderson, Vincente Minnelli. With Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Susan Kohner, George Hamilton. Salome, pregnant by Chad, runs away from her rural-Texas home and marries wealthy Yale student Tony.
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Robert Wagner plays Chad Bixby, a role reportedly inspired by the life of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker in this romantic drama about two young couples linked by the out-of-wedlock baby spawned by Bixby and Salome Davis (Natalie Wood) before their current marriages.
