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Hollywood in the Sixties: Tender is the Night

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

Tonight's film in this season of outstanding films of the past ten years from the movie capital stars Jennifer Jones, Jason Robards Jr, Joan Fontaine, Tom Ewell

Europe in the gay, turbulent twenties - the setting for Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel about a promising young psychiatrist who gives up his practice to marry a wealthy neurotic ex-patient without realising the risks involved.

Contributors

Screenplay:
Ivan Moffat
Based on the novel by:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Producer:
Henry T. Weinstein
Director:
Henry King
Nicole Diver:
Jennifer Jones
Dick Diver:
Jason Robards Jr.
Baby Warren:
Joan Fontaine
Abe North:
Tom Ewell
Tommy Barban:
Cesare Danova
Rosemary Hoyt:
Jill St John
Source: Radio Times

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