Sweet Bird of Youth

• 6.8 Drama
• 1962-03-21
• 120 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Paul Newman (Chance Wayne) Geraldine Page (Alexandra Del Lago) Shirley Knight (Heavenly Finley) Ed Begley (Tom 'Boss' Finley) Rip Torn (Thomas 'Tom' J. Finley, Jr.) Mildred Dunnock (Aunt Nonnie) Madeleine Sherwood (Miss Lucy) Philip Abbott (Dr. George Scudder) Corey Allen (Scotty) Roy Glenn (Charles)

Director:

Richard Brooks

Writer:

Richard Brooks Tennessee Williams