Sweet Bird of Youth (1989)

5.5/10 • 95 min • Drama TV Movie

Overview

Tennessee William’s masterful melodrama about an aging movie star who, appalled by her own image on the screen, flees from her movie premiere and goes into seclusion, becoming entangled with a much younger hotel masseur and resident gigolo.

Cast

Elizabeth Taylor

Alexandra Del Lago

Mark Harmon

Chance Wayne

Valerie Perrine

Miss Lucy

Seymour Cassel

Hatcher

Rip Torn

Boss Finley

Ronnie Claire Edwards

Aunt Nonnie

Megan Blake

Violet

Charles Lucia

Dr. George Scudder

Teddy Wilson

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John Fleck

Mission Man

Tom Nolan

Billy Ray Sharkey

Scotty

Ruta Lee

Sally Powers

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