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GREAT PERFORMANCES: THREE CHEEVER STORIES #2: O YOUTH AND BEAUTY (TV)
Summary
Second in this series of dramatizations of short stories by John Cheever. In this drama, set in affluent Shady Hill, Cash Bentley faces middle age and accompanying career and family problems by hurdling furniture at parties in an attempt to hold on to his fading youth and vigor. (Presented under the umbrella of "Great Performances.")
Details
- NETWORK: PBS
- DATE: October 31, 1979 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:58:50
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T81:0867
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Exxon collection; Drama
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1974-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Jac Venza … Executive Producer
- Ann Blumenthal … Producer
- J. Stephen Fairchild … Associate Producer
- Noam Yerushalmi … Associate Producer
- Jeff Bleckner … Director
- A.R. Gurney … Writer
- John Cheever … Based on the story by
- Jonathan Tunick … Music by
- Michael Murphy … Cast, Cash Bentley
- Michelle La Mothe … Cast, Helen Parminter
- Gordon Ramsey … Cast, Joe Parminter
- Baxter Harris … Cast, Bill Trencher
- Holland Taylor … Cast, Beverly Trencher
- John Harkins … Cast, Trace Bearden
- Charlotte Moore … Cast, Nancy Bearden
- Kathryn Walker … Cast, Louise Bentley
- Cheryl Arutt … Cast, Wendy Bentley
- Tim Waldrip … Cast, Dave Bentley
- Sigourney Weaver … Cast, Marcia Lawton
- Edward Herrmann … Cast, Kip Lawton
- William Gibberson … Cast, Doctor
- Nancy Wallach … Cast, Wedding Guest
- Bruce Zawodniak … Cast, Young Cash