The Entertainer
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Donald Wrye
Jack Lemmon
Ray Bolger
Sada Thompson
Tyne Daly
Michael Cristofer
Film Details
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Synopsis
A semi-musical adaptation of the stage and screen drama (both of which starred Laurence Olivier) about a second-rate vaudevillian, still struggling at middle age for success and stardom. The setting is changed from the original British to an American seaside resort and has Emmy Award-nominated performances by Lemmon, Bolger and Sada Thompson, with Elliott Baker's adaptation and James Crabe's cinematography also cited. For Lemmon, who began acting on television in its infancy, this marked his first dramatic TV work in nearly seventeen years. It also marked Ray Bolger's television movie debut and reunited him with Allyn Ann McLerie, his co-star both on stage and screen in "Where's Charley?"
Director
Donald Wrye
Cast
Jack Lemmon
Ray Bolger
Sada Thompson
Tyne Daly
Michael Cristofer
Annette O'toole
Mitch Ryan
Allyn Ann Mclerie
Dick O'neill
Leanna Johnson Heath
Rita O'connor
Alan Dewitt
Crew
Terry Adams
Elliott Baker
Richard Bruno
Ken Chase
James A. Crabe
Ron Field
Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Hamlisch
Jack Lemmon
Robert Mackichan
John Osborne
William H. Reynolds
Sir Tim Rice
Robert T Skodis
Beryl Vertue
Charles M Wilborn
Ralph E. Winters
Film Details
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Aired in United States March 10, 1976
