Mia Farrow
Cecilia
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Van Johnson. Larry. Unhappily married Depression-era waitress Cecilia (Mia Farrow) earns the money while her inattentive husband, Monk (Danny Aiello), blows their meager income on getting drunk ...
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- Comedy, Drama
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In mid-1930s New Jersey, Cecilia (Mia Farrow) is a waitress stuck in a loveless, dead-end marriage to obnoxious, philandering, gambling Monk (Danny Aiello). It's the height of the Depression and life is pretty grim, but luckily Cecilia has an escape. She loves going to the movies.
Apr 7, 2020 · Set in New Jersey during the Great Depression in 1935, the film tells the story of Cecilia (Mia Farrow), a clumsy waitress who goes to the movies to escape h...
Jan 21, 2015 · The Purple Rose of Cairo’s hard truth about the frailty of art and artifice, and yet how its is always indispensable. This film shows both the danger of filmmaking’s world-building, as well as ...
After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising her spirits, where she watches dashing archaeologist Tom Baxter time and again. Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre.
In fact, The Purple Rose of Cairo clearly shows its debt to Keaton's Sherlock, Jr. (1924), as well as Fellini's The White Sheik (1952), in the way it playfully blurs the line between fantasy and reality. One of the most unique features about The Purple Rose of Cairo is its remarkably downbeat ending, which provoked the wrath of his studio Orion.
The Purple Rose of Cairo is a 1985 American fantasy-romantic film written and directed by Woody Allen, and starring Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, and Danny Aiello. Inspired by the films Sherlock Jr. (1924) and Hellzapoppin' (1941) and Pirandello's play Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), it is the tale of a film character named Tom Baxter ...
