Baby Doll 1956  N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Eli Wallach, Mildred Dunnock, Rip Torn, Lonny Chapman, Eades Hogue, Noah Williamson, R.G. Armstrong, Madeleine Sherwood
The setting for this Tennessee Williams tale is Mississippi where Silva Vacarro (Eli Wallach) runs a cotton mill, and Archie Lee Meighan (Karl Malden) lives with his young wife, Baby Doll (Carroll Baker), who sleeps in a crib. Following a suspicious fire at Vacarro's mill, he plays on Baby Doll's naivete to invalidate Meighan's alibi. Academy Award nominations included Best Actress (Carroll Baker), and Mildred Dunnock was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Aunt Rose.
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Broken Vows 1987  TV, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jud Taylor
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Annette O'Toole, M. Emmet Walsh, Milo O'Shea, David Groh, Madeleine Sherwood, Jean De Baer, David Strathairn, Frances Fisher, Peter Crombie
Impacted by the murder of an artist to whom he gave last rites, Catholic Priest Joseph McMahon (Tommy Lee Jones), along with the murdered man's latest of several girlfriends (Annette O'Toole), investigates the murder. In the process, he realizes that he knows little about what is going on in the neighborhood outside the church and begins to question his faith and celibacy. Made for TV.
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 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958  N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson, Judith Anderson, Madeleine Sherwood, Larry Gates, Vaughn Taylor, Patty Ann Gerrity, Rusty Stevens, Deborah Miller, Brian Corcoran, Jeane Wood, Walter Merrill, Bobby Johnson
Big Daddy (Burl Ives) is dying, and family members are hovering like vultures around his home. Brick (Paul Newman) and his childless wife, Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor), are there along with his brother's family of "No Neck Monsters"–as Maggie refers to the children. Of the situation, Brick says: "The truth is something desperate, and Maggie's got it. Believe me, it is desperate, and she has got it."
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The Changeling 1979 R, 113 min.
Genre: Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Peter Medak
Cast: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, John Colicos, Jean Marsh, Barry Morse, James B. Douglas, Eric Christmas, Roberta Maxwell, Bernard Behrens, Madeleine Sherwood, Helen Burns, Frances Hyland, Ruth Springfield, J. Kenneth Campbell
After music professor John Russell (George C. Scott) moves into a mansion in Seattle, he realizes that his new home is haunted. Working with Claire Norman (Trish Van Devere), John figures out that the haunting comes from the ghost of a murdered boy whose father wanted to collect on his life insurance policy. When the father realized that he could not collect on the boy's insurance, the father substituted another boy for his son, and now the "changeling"–wealthy Joseph Carmichael–believes that John is finding information about his past and could blackmail him.
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Nobody's Child 1986  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lee Grant
Cast: Marlo Thomas, Ray Baker, Caroline Kava, Kathy Baker, Anna Maria Horsford, Madeleine Sherwood, Jackson Davies, Michael Higgins, Blanche Baker, Garwin Sanford, Karen Elizabeth Austin
After surviving more than 20 years in mental institutions, 36-year-old Marie Balter (Marlo Thomas) comes under the care of the dedicated Dr. Blackwell (Caroline Kava). Blackwell's method of treating extreme depression and panic disorder works, and, as a result, Marie is able to live a normal life–including romance, college, and a bright future. This made-for-TV offering is based on a true story. Marlo Thomas won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress.
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Parrish 1961 N/R, 138 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Delmer Daves
Cast: Troy Donahue, Claudette Colbert, Karl Malden, Dean Jagger, Connie Stevens, Diane McBain, Sharon Hugueny, Dub Taylor, Hampton Fancher, Sylvia Miles, David Knapp, Saundra Edwards, Bibi Osterwald, Hayden Rorke, Madeleine Sherwood
In this soap opera of a story set in the Connecticut River Valley, Parrish McLean (Troy Donahue) lives with his mother, Ellen (Claudette Colbert), and enjoys the reputation of "Ladies' Man." But, when Ellen marries tobacco czar Judd Raike (Karl Malden), Judd determines to turn Parrish into a businessman and teach him the tobacco business from the ground up.
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Sweet Bird of Youth 1962 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Geraldine Page, Paul Newman, Ed Begley, Shirley Knight, Rip Torn, Mildred Dunnock, Corey Allen, Dub Taylor, Madeleine Sherwood, Philip Abbott, Barry Cahill, Barry Atwater, Charles Arnt, James B. Douglas
This is an excellent version of Tennessee Williams' hit play in which Geraldine Page and Paul Newman recreate their Broadway roles. The story is about has-been film star Alexandra Del Lago (Page) and her young lover Chance Wayne (Newman) who is looking for fame and fortune. They visit Chance's hometown where the corrupt politician Boss Finley (Ed Begley) rules. Finley's daughter Heavenly (Shirley Knight) wants to reunite with Chance, but Finley and his son (Rip Torn) will stop at nothing to prevent that from happening. Geraldine Page: "My checkout time in any hotel in the world is when I–is when I want to check out." Ed Begley received an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor. Geraldine Page and Sandra Knight were nominated for Best Actress and Supporting Actress.
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 An Unremarkable Life 1989 PG, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Amin Q. Chaudhri
Cast: Patricia Neal, Shelley Winters, Mako, Rochelle Oliver, Charles S. Dutton, Lily Knight, Jenny Chrisinger, Madeleine Sherwood, Laura Lock
Elderly sisters Frances and Evelyn (Patricia Neal and Shelley Winters) have lived in the same home for the last 15 years but remain emotionally in the past, as they cannot move forward beyond old squabbles. When Max Chin (Mako) begins dating Frances, the arguments rise to a new level.
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| 1. Baby Doll (1956)
2. Broken Vows (1987)
3. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
4. The Changeling (1979)
5. Nobody's Child (1986)
6. Parrish (1961)
7. Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
8. An Unremarkable Life (1989)
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