The Entertainer
As the applause grew fainter … As the spotlight grew dimmer … His women were younger!
Directed by Tony Richardson
Produced by Woodfall Film Productions, Continental
A bleak, introspective portrait of a fading vaudeville performer clinging to relevance amid personal and professional collapse, steeped in British kitchen-sink realism and the melancholy of obsolescence.
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
Essence
Ensemble
Laurence Olivier
Archie Rice
Brenda De Banzie
Phoebe Rice
Roger Livesey
Billy Rice
Joan Plowright
Jean Rice
Alan Bates
Frank Rice
Daniel Massey
Graham
Albert Finney
Mick Rice
Shirley Anne Field
Tina Lapford
Thora Hird
Mrs. Ada Lapford
Miriam Karlin
Renée Baxter
Geoffrey Toone
Harold Hubbard
MacDonald Hobley
McDonald Hobley (as McDonald Hobley)
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Like The Entertainer, But Less Popular
Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.
