Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
| Release Date | 21 March 1962 |
| Tagline | Provocative Adult Entertainment |
| Genre | Drama |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Sound Mix | Mono |
| Color | Color |
| Film Type | Feature |
| Film Class | Melodrama |
| Mood | A Good Cry |
| Themes | Southern Gothic |
| Tones | Talky, Lurid, Sexual, Tense, Atmospheric |
| Tags | Ambition, Deception, Ego, Film Star, Has Been, Hustler, Revenge, Woman |
Sweet Bird of Youth is a 1959 play by Tennessee Williams which tells the story of a gigolo and drifter, Chance Wayne, who returns to his home town as the accompaniment of a faded movie star, Princess Kosmonopolis (also known as Alexandra Del Lago), whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. The main reason he returns to his home town is to get back what he had in his youth: primarily, his old girlfriend, whose father had run him out of town years before.
Cast and Crew
Cast
Philip Abbott
Dr. George Scudder
Corey Allen
Scotty
Barry Cahill
Bud
James B. Douglas
Leroy
Barry Atwater
Ben Jackson
Dorothy Konrad
Mrs. Maribelle Norris
James Chandler
Professor Brutus Haven Smith
Mike Steen
Deputy
Kelly Thordsen
Sheriff Clark
William Forrest
Bennie Taubman
Roy Glenn
Charles
Davis Roberts
Fly
Eddy Samuels
Jackie
Director
Writer
Producer
Pandro S. Berman
producer
Kathryn Hereford
associate producer
Original Music
Harold Gelman
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Cinematographer
Milton R. Krasner
Editor
Henry Berman
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Art Director
George W. Davis
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Urie McCleary
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Set Decorator
Henry Grace
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Hugh Hunt
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Costume Designer
Orry-Kelly
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Makeup Department
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Hank Moonjean
assistant director
Sound Department
Franklin Milton
recording supervisor
Visual Effects
Lee LeBlanc
special visual effects
Editorial Department
Charles K. Hagedon
color consultant
Music Department
Robert Armbruster
conductor: orchestra
Harold Gelman
music supervisor
Other Crew
Cheryl Crawford
presented on the stage by
Production Company
Roxbury Productions Inc.
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Distributor
MGM-International Dist.
CBS Television
Warner Home Video
Living Colour Entertainment
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Miscellaneous
MGM-International Dist.
presents
Related Lists
Navigation Boxes
Works by Tennessee Williams
Baby Doll (1956)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Sweet Bird of Youth
The Fugitive Kind (1960)
The Glass Menagerie (1950)
The Rose Tattoo (1955)
