THE GROUP 1966. Based on the book by Mary McCarthy.

Candice Bergen as Lakey, the lesbian. Although she had the shortest screen time, this was her breakthrough. Stunning beauty. Joan Hackett was perfection. Shirley Knight, Jessica Walter, Joanna Pettit. Always liked this film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ68L5Yr7P4


Libby "she had an ugly gash on her face called a mouth."
• I wanted to see this movie again bad until I actually did. It's no forgotten gem, very superficial and plastic, very 1966.

• There is the full movie on Youtube.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DlQ68L5Yr7P4

• Joanna Petit was taken from us too soon.

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• Would Joan Hackett have had a bigger career if her representation had done something about that surname?

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• Really disliked the production values

• Couldn't get through this one. So artificial and unconvincing

• I haven't seen it in decades but I loved it when I saw it. It was the first time I saw a gay character in a movie, which was astonishing at the time.

• gay-o-meter/gaydar for Candice Bergen According to 105 visitors Candice Bergen is 75% gay. The average gay-rating on gay-or-straight.com is 69%, which means Candice Bergen has been voted highly gay.

  http://gay-or-straight.com/Candice%20Bergen

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• Sorry OP. Now i noticed that you had already sent a link about this movie. I sent the same link because i noticed yours later. Excuse-moi!

• It's on Netflix streaming. I remember liking the film when I first saw it a few years back. Then I was visiting lesbians over thanksgiving and it came up they had never seen it. We found it on Netflix and while it was good, it wasn't as campy or enjoyable as I had thought it was.

• The powerful reveal of Candice and her Prussian girlfriend rocked this baby dyke's 12-year old reality. I could envision a future for the first time.

• We had a great thread about this film when it played on TCM several months ago but damned if I can find it. I found it as plodding and soapy this time around as I did when I saw it in high school in 1966. The Joanna Pettet and Shirley Knight story lines, which get far more atention than the other girls, are particularly ponderous. I wish there'd been more of Joan Hackett, Kathleen Widdoes and Mary Robin-Redd.

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• It felt badly edited to me

• Jessica Walter looks exactly the same now as she did almost 50 years ago. Who is her surgeon? Even the incredible Candice Bergen doesn't look the way she did...

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• r14 Yes. Exactly.

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• R3- It's Joan Hackett who died, not Joanna Pettit.

• I believe that by now, they are both dead.

• Pettit is still living R17.

• The book is very entertaining.

• Funny, I just bought the dvd on tcm.com I love this movie. And Larry Hagman's (Harald with an 'a') homophobic tirade at the end of the movie is still pretty disturbing today. Thought every role was perfectly cast and let's not forget lovely Elizbeth Hartman as Priss. Sadly, her career was short but she left behind some really memorable performances including A Patch of Blue. There was a screening in NYC a few years back and, I think, Walter and Knight were present. Missed it! damn!

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• Funny, I just bought the dvd on tcm.com Is the tcm DVD enhanced for wide screen for wide screen? I bought it when MGM had the made to order disc and it's not wide screen.