A Loss of Roses

play by Inge

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  • Kim Hunter, Roddy McDowall, and Charlton Heston in Planet of the Apes
    In Franklin J. Schaffner

    …based on William Inge’s play A Loss of Roses. Joanne Woodward starred as a struggling actress who accepts a job as a striptease performer, and Richard Beymer was cast as the wide-eyed teenager who is initially infatuated with her. The Best Man (1964) was a knowing dissection of political conventions…

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