#1
Posted: 6/12/12 at 2:55am
THE GROUP (1966) . I love this flick!
#2
Posted: 6/12/12 at 6:48am
I love this movie!
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
#3
Posted: 6/12/12 at 6:52am
I just watched THE GROUP this Saturday. It's an okay film. It does have a great cast of actors and actresses.
Top row (left to right): Joanna Pettet as "Kay" • Jessica Walter as "Libby" • Mary Robin-Redd as "Pokey" • Candice Bergen as "Lakey"
Bottom row (left to right): Elizabeth Hartman as "Priss" • Kathleen Widdoes as "Helena" • Joan Hackett as "Dottie" • Shirley Knight as "Polly"
Top row (left to right): Joanna Pettet as "Kay" • Jessica Walter as "Libby" • Mary Robin-Redd as "Pokey" • Candice Bergen as "Lakey"
Bottom row (left to right): Elizabeth Hartman as "Priss" • Kathleen Widdoes as "Helena" • Joan Hackett as "Dottie" • Shirley Knight as "Polly"
Updated On: 6/12/12 at 06:52 AM
#5
Posted: 6/12/12 at 9:29am
One of my favorites!
Poor, poor Kay.
Poor, poor Kay.
Updated On: 6/12/12 at 09:29 AM
#6
Posted: 6/12/12 at 11:30am
I only read the book because it was featured so heavily in Mad Men. DVRed the movie, and am excited to see it, though even in the late 60os I imagine the book was heavily censored/changed.
#7
Posted: 6/12/12 at 11:31am
Actually, if I remember correctly (it's been quite a while since I've read the book) the movie is pretty faithful and not too watered down.
#8
Posted: 6/12/12 at 3:22pm
I'm just going from the introduction on TCM, which I watched. I know the producer of the film was seen as the person who also made the book a must read--once he bought the rights he championed the book to rev up interest, as much as possible.
#9
Posted: 6/12/12 at 3:53pm
Best line (near the end, in the car):
Larry Hagman calling Candy Bergen a "lesbo". Priceless (in 1966).
That's AFTER he beats Joanna Pettet to a pulp in an earlier scene. Well done soap opera by (early) Sidney Lumet.
Larry Hagman calling Candy Bergen a "lesbo". Priceless (in 1966).
That's AFTER he beats Joanna Pettet to a pulp in an earlier scene. Well done soap opera by (early) Sidney Lumet.
#10
Posted: 6/12/12 at 4:04pm
"She'll make the coffee too weak and she'll use paper napkins!"
#11
Posted: 6/12/12 at 4:20pm
I love this movie, too - and the book. I think the movie is really very faithful to the story and to the spirit of the book, with just a few departures - in the book, McCarthy focuses a lot on the girls' mothers, particularly Helena's and Dottie's (I believe I read that she was initially more interested in the mothers than the daughters). And of course, they couldn't really delve into Lakey's lesbianism in the film the way McCarthy does in the book, but I think they got the point across. I thought the casting was excellent - it's hard to even pick out a few as "best," but I did think Pettet was great as Kay, and Walter as Libby - and Hagman was appropriately awful as Harald. Oh! and let us not forget Carrie Nye as Norine - perfect.
Maggie-the-schnoodle
#12
Posted: 6/12/12 at 4:47pm
Jessica Walter. IMHO, one of the most underrated actresses ever.
#13
Posted: 6/12/12 at 5:19pm
Yeah, talk about downplaying "Lakey's" lesbianism. They ship her off to Europe and you don't see her for the rest of the film until almost the very end when she returns with a stiff-as-starch butch lesbian Baroness. LOL.
