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A Face in the Crowd was filmed in various locations in Arkansas, Memphis, Tennessee, and New York City. It was in the 'Big Apple' that the production utilized the old Gold Medal Studio in the Bronx where D.W. Griffith and Thomas Ince made many of their pioneering pictures.
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A Face in the Crowd, American film drama, released in 1957, that was especially noted for the performance by Andy Griffith in his movie debut.
Griffith portrayed the charismatic, but manipulative, country singer Larry (“Lonesome”) Rhodes, who is idolized by the very masses he disdains in private. Patricia Neal and Lee Remick (also in her film debut) are among the women he uses and discards. The film builds to a shattering conclusion when Rhodes’s true feelings are revealed to his fans.
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•Studio: Warner Brothers
•Director and producer: Elia Kazan
•Writer: Budd Schulberg
•Music: Tom Glazer
•Andy Griffith (Larry [“Lonesome”] Rhodes)
•Patricia Neal (Marcia Jeffries)
•Anthony Franciosa (Joey)
•Walter Matthau (Mel Miller)
- Lee Pfeiffer
A Face in the Crowd chronicles the rise and fall of Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes (Andy Griffith), a boisterous entertainer discovered in an Arkansas drunk tank by Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal), a local radio producer with ambitions of her own. His charisma and cunning soon shoot him to the heights of television stardom and political demagoguery, forcing Marcia to grapple with the manipulative ...
- Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes
Screenshots. A Face in the Crowd (1957) In Elia Kazan's powerful political film about a demagogue: the early scene in which KGRK radio reporter/producer Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal) conducted her local radio show ("A Face in the Crowd") from a jail-cell in rural Clay County, in the fictional town of Pickett, in northeast Arkansas; one of the ...
Mar 27, 2024 · A Face in the Crowd. A Face in the Crowd was a 1957 movie drama based on the short story, “Your Arkansas Traveler,” written by Budd Schulberg. It concerns a fictional Arkansas native, its opening scenes were set in northeastern Arkansas, and it was filmed on location in Piggott (Clay County) using local residents as extras.
A Face in the Crowd (1957) is director Elia Kazan's satirical and powerful socio-political drama that illustrated how a jailed, down-home country boy in the late 1950s could be transformed overnight into a media celebrity on the radio, and later become a mean-spirited, opportunistic political demagogue and megalomaniac as a pop TV show icon.
The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell. Budd Schulberg. Screenplay, Story. Elia Kazan.
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