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Rich and Famous (1981) The lesson of "Rich and Famous" is that, although a woman cannot be too thin or too rich, she can be too famous. The movie stars Jacqueline Bisset and Candice Bergen as college classmates who become writers (Bisset, a serious intellectual writer and Bergen, an author of trashy bestsellers) and who maintain their ...
A scene at the end of the film provides a suitable metaphor for Bergen’s delightfully unnatural role. Rushing into the street scantily dressed in the middle of a New York winter, Merry asks the hotel’s concierge to lend her his giant overcoat.
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Rich and Famous is a 1981 American drama film directed by George Cukor, the final film of his career. The screenplay by Gerald Ayres is based on the 1940 play Old Acquaintance by John Van Druten, previously adapted in 1943 by Vincent Sherman under its original title, starring Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins.
- $11.5 million
- Georges Delerue
- William Allyn
Oct 9, 1981 · Rich and Famous: Directed by George Cukor. With Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, David Selby, Hart Bochner. Liz and Merry become BFFs in college. A decade later, Liz is a serious writer with writer's block, and Merry is a homemaker and a mom who has written a novel.
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- Drama
- George Cukor
- 1981-10-09
Oct 9, 1981 · CUKOR'S 'RICH AND FAMOUS'. Rich and Famous. Directed by George Cukor. Drama. R. 1h 57m. By Vincent Canby. Oct. 9, 1981. The New York Times Archives.
Meanwhile, Merry visits Liz at her hotel and accuses Liz of being in love with Doug and the one he is going to marry although Doug has told Merry he plans to marry a woman from Texas. The friends fight, ripping apart a treasured childhood teddy bear that Merry gave to Liz when she left college.
