Smile (1975 film)

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name = Smile


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director = Michael Ritchie
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starring = Bruce Dern
Barbara Feldon
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released = 1975
runtime = 117 min.
country = U.S.A.
language = English
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amg_id = 1:45262
imdb_id = 0073722

"Smile" is a 1975 film directed by American director Michael Ritchie, with a screenplay by Jerry Belson, about a beauty pageant in Santa Rosa, California. It is starring Bruce Dern and Barbara Feldon and introduced a number of young actresses who later went on to greater success and recognition, such as Melanie Griffith, Annette O'Toole, Denise Nickerson, and Colleen Camp. The film is a satirical comedy-drama focusing on small-town America and its peculiarities, preoccupations, and hypocrisies. It was subsequently made into a 1986 Broadway musical with songs by Marvin Hamlisch and Howard Ashman.

ynopsis

The plot revolves around the contestants and people involved with California's Young American Miss Pageant held in Santa Rosa, California. Barbara Feldon starred as Brenda DiCarlo (the pageant's Executive Director), with Nicholas Pryor as Andy DiCarlo (Brenda's husband), Bruce Dern as Big Bob Freelander (the head judge), Geoffrey Lewis as Wilson Shears (pageant producer), and as the contestants, Joan Prather as Robin Gibson, Annette O'Toole as Doria Hudson, and Melanie Griffith as Karen Love. Choreographer Michael Kidd starred as Tommy French, the pageant's stage director. The movie was filmed on location in and around Santa Rosa, with the pageant held at Veteran's Memorial Auditorium.

This movie also features a small role played by Michael Ritchie's sister, Elsie Ritchie.

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*imdb title|id=0073722|title=Smile