Movie · 1989
Sweet Bird of Youth
“A Passionate Romance”
Released 1 October 1989 95 min Drama / TV Movie More from 1989 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
Tennessee William’s masterful melodrama about an aging movie star who, appalled by her own image on the screen, flees from her movie premiere and goes into seclusion, becoming entangled with a much younger hotel masseur and resident gigolo.
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How old were they?
Rip Torn
as Boss Finley
Elizabeth Taylor
as Alexandra Del Lago
Ronnie Claire Edwards
as Aunt Nonnie
Seymour Cassel
as Hatcher
Valerie Perrine
as Miss Lucy
Teddy Wilson
as Fly
Charles Lucia
as Dr. George Scudder
Mark Harmon
as Chance Wayne
John Fleck
as Mission Man
Kevin Geer
as Tom Junior
Cheryl Paris
as Heavenly Finley
Megan Blake
as Violet
Martha Milliken
as Virginia
Tom Nolan
Billy Ray Sharkey
as Scotty
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The numbers
22years between the oldest and youngest billed
58Rip Torn — oldest on the call sheet
36Kevin Geer — youngest billed
47average age of the credited cast