The Loved One (film)
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| The Loved One | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Tony Richardson |
| Produced by | John Calley Haskell Wexler |
| Written by | Terry Southern Christopher Isherwood Evelyn Waugh (novel) |
| Starring | Robert Morse Anjanette Comer Rod Steiger John Gielgud Liberace |
| Music by | John Addison |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Running time | 122 min. |
| IMDb profile | |
The Loved One is a 1965 film about the funeral business in Los Angeles, which is based on The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (1948), a short satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh.
It was directed by British filmmaker Tony Richardson and the screenplay -- which also drew on Jessica Mitford's book The American Way of Death (1963)[1] -- was written by noted American satirical novelist Terry Southern (Dr Strangelove) and British author Christopher Isherwood.
- Robert Morse
- Jonathan Winters
- Anjanette Comer
- Dana Andrews
- Milton Berle
- James Coburn
- John Gielgud
- Tab Hunter
- Margaret Leighton
- Liberace
- Roddy McDowall
- Robert Morley
- Barbara Nichols
- Lionel Stander
- Paul Williams
- Rod Steiger
- ^ Lee Hill - A Grand Guy: The Life and Art of Terry Southern Boomsbury, 2001) p.135