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Midweek Movie: Carrie

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

starring Laurence Olivier
Jennifer Jones , Eddie Albert
Tonights love story is William Wyler 's classic version of Theodore Dreiser's novel in which Laurence Olivier gives one of the cinema's truly great performances. In the early 1900s young Carrie Meeber leaves her poor Missouri home to live and work in Chicago. Here she meets George Hurst wood, a handsome, middle-aged restaurant manager. It proves to be a fateful meeting.
Screenplay by RUTH and Augustus GOETZ. from the novel Sister Carrie by THEODORE DREISER
Produced and directed by WILLIAM WYLER . Films; page 17

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurence Olivier
Unknown:
Jennifer Jones
Unknown:
Eddie Albert
Unknown:
William Wyler
Unknown:
Laurence Olivier
Unknown:
Carrie Meeber
Unknown:
George Hurst
Unknown:
Augustus Goetz.
Unknown:
Theodore Dreiser
Directed By:
William Wyler
Carrie Meeber:
Jennifer Jones
George Hurstwood:
Laurence Olivier
Julia Hurstwood:
Miriam Hopkins
Charlie Drouet:
Eddie Albert
Mr Fitzgerald:
Basil Ruysdael
Allen:
Ray Teal
Slawson:
Barry Kelly
Mrs Oransky:
Sara Berner
George Hurstwood Jr:
William Regnolds
Jessica Hurstwood:
Mary Murphy
Source: Radio Times

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