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  1. Sweet Bird of Youth is a 1962 American drama film starring Paul Newman and Geraldine Page, with Shirley Knight, Madeleine Sherwood, Ed Begley, Rip Torn and Mildred Dunnock in support. Based on the 1959 play of the same name by Tennessee Williams, the film was adapted and directed by Richard Brooks.

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  3. An aspiring actor, Chance rolls back into St. Cloud with temperamental and drunken Alexandra Del Lago, a once great movie actress whose star has since faded. Picking her up at a party, Chance sees Alexandra as his professional meal ticket.

  4. Plot. In St. Cloud, native son Chance Wayne has fled his hometown, seeking to profit from his beauty and youth in New York or Hollywood. When he fails as an actor and a personality in both cities, he becomes a gigolo.

  5. Sweet Bird of Youth: Directed by Richard Brooks. With Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight, Ed Begley. A drifter and a faded film star, both traumatized by Hollywood, arrive to the guy's hometown, where the old bitter memories revive again.

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  6. Jul 21, 2011 · The Tennessee Williams Film Series at the Ransom Center concludes tonight with Richard Brooks's Sweet Bird of Youth (1962), featuring Paul Newman and Geraldine Page.

    • Elana Estrin
  7. Sex, money, hypocrisy, financial and emotional blackmail are familiar elements in Williams' literary realm and combine powerfully in Sweet Bird of Youth as Chance (Newman) battles his private demons in a desperate bid to redeem his wasted life and recapture his lost sweet bird of youth.

  8. Plot Summary. Sweet Bird of Youth is a three-act drama by Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright Tennessee Williams. First performed in 1959, the play chronicles the relationship between shiftless gigolo Chance Wayne and alcoholic has-been movie star Alexandra Del Lago, a.k.a. Princess Kosmonopolis. Chance has brought the Princess to his ...

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