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Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

Directed by Richard Brooks

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Overview

Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his home town as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom “Boss” Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.

Rated NR | Length 120 minutes

Actors

Paul Newman | Geraldine Page | Shirley Knight | Ed Begley | Rip Torn | Mildred Dunnock | Madeleine Sherwood | Philip Abbott | Corey Allen | Roy Glenn | Bess Flowers | Barry Cahill | Dub Taylor | James Douglas | Barry Atwater | Charles Arnt | Dorothy Konrad | James Chandler | Mike Steen | Kelly Thordsen | Cosmo Sardo | Jeffrey Sayre | Bert Stevens | Rudy Germane | Herschel Graham