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In Robert Benton: Directing
Benton next directed The Late Show (1977) from his own screenplay about an aging private eye whose partner is killed while trying to help a quirky woman find her cat. Art Carney was impressive as Ira Wells, the gumshoe who is falling apart at the seams, and Lily…
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In Lily Tomlin
…her follow-up movie, Robert Benton’s The Late Show (1977), in which she portrayed a woman who hires an aging private investigator (played by Art Carney) to find her cat. Tomlin’s success continued as she moved to Broadway, where she starred in the one-woman show Appearing Nitely (1977), which earned her…
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