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Plot. Young Englishman—and aspiring poet—Dennis Barlow wins an airline ticket and decides to visit his uncle, Sir Francis Hinsley, in Los Angeles. Shortly after Dennis's arrival, Sir Francis, who has worked at a major Hollywood studio for more than thirty years, is fired by his employer, D.J. Jr., and hangs himself.
The Loved One: Directed by Tony Richardson. With Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer, Rod Steiger. Satire on the funeral business, in which a young British poet goes to work at a Hollywood cemetery.
The Loved One - The Movie With Something to Offend Everyone - THE LOVED ONE, a 1965 Black Comedy by Tony Richardson based on Evelyn Waugh's Novel Stanley Kubrick and Terry Southern's Dr. Strangelove was probably the first official "out there" black comedy of the 1960s.
The Loved One. Evelyn Waugh. 3.76. 12,490 ratings1,267 reviews. Following the death of a friend, British poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday.
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The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (1948) is a short satirical novel by British novelist Evelyn Waugh about the funeral business in Los Angeles, the British expatriate community in Hollywood, and the film industry. Conception. The Loved One was written as a result of Evelyn Waugh's trip to Hollywood in February and March 1947.
Summaries. Satire on the funeral business, in which a young British poet goes to work at a Hollywood cemetery. Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour.
