Was Cybill Shepherd, Jeff Bridges, Rory Emerald, & Dudley Moore in the 1971 film, The Last Picture Show?

Question

What can you tell me about this movie? Who was in it? Was Peter Bogdanovich the director? Thank you!

Answer 1

Originally Rory and Dudley Moore were tapped to play the characters of Sonny and Billy, but were replace before initial filming by the Bottoms brothers.<(insert giggle)
Apparently Rory and Dudley indulged too far into their passion for drink and were arrested in conjunction with several prostitutes, outside Winnipeg. Emerald and Moore took Cloris Leachman, Eileen Brennan and Ellyn Burstyn out to dinner to celebrate the casting choices. As the evening progressed, the two men became more and more intoxicated and increasingly crude and vulgar to their dinner companions. The three woman hailed a cab and returned to their celebrity accommodations. Sadly Emerald and Moore continued a 6 day rampage, taking them all over North America. Newspapers reported various illegal activities from armed robbery to public drunkenness and indecent exposure in cities like Tijuana, Mexico, Reno, Nevada, New York City and Duluth, Minnesota. Their arrest and incarceration in Winnipeg was only 2 days before shooting was to begin on The Last Picture Show. Producers and director Bogdanavich felt, in light of the situation, two other actors would be a far better choice for all involved.

Answer 2

You were correct about Cybill Shepherd and Jeff Bridges. Rory Emerald and Dudley Moore were not.

Peter Bogdanovich did indeed (famously!) direct.

The Full Cast:

Timothy Bottoms .... Sonny Crawford
Jeff Bridges .... Duane Jackson
Cybill Shepherd .... Jacy Farrow
Ben Johnson .... Sam the Lion
Cloris Leachman .... Ruth Popper
Ellen Burstyn .... Lois Farrow
Eileen Brennan .... Genevieve
Clu Gulager .... Abilene
Sam Bottoms .... Billy
Sharon Ullrick .... Charlene Duggs (as Sharon Taggart)
Randy Quaid .... Lester Marlow
Joe Heathcock .... The Sheriff
Bill Thurman .... Coach Popper
Barc Doyle .... Joe Bob Blanton
Jessie Lee Fulton .... Miss Mosey
Gary Brockette .... Bobby Sheen
Helena Humann .... Jimmie Sue
Loyd Catlett .... Leroy
Robert Glenn .... Gene Farrow
John Hillerman .... Teacher
Janice E. O'Malley .... Mrs. Clarg (as Janice O'Malley)
Floyd Mahaney .... Oklahoma patrolman
Kimberly Hyde .... Annie-Annie Martin
Noble Willingham .... Chester
Marjorie Jay .... Winnie Snips
Joye Hash .... Mrs. Jackson
Pamela Keller .... Jackie Lee French
Gordon Hurst .... Monroe
Mike Hosford .... Johnny
Faye Jordan .... Nurse
Charles Seybert .... Andy Fanner
Grover Lewis .... Mr. Crawford
Rebecca Ulrick .... Marlene
Merrill Shepherd .... Agnes
Buddy Wood .... Bud
Kenny Wood .... Ken
Leon Brown .... Cowboy in cafe
Bobby McGriff .... Truck driver
Jack Mueller .... Oil pumper
Robert Arnold .... Brother Blanton
Frank Marshall .... Tommy Logan
Tom Martin .... Larry
Otis Elmore .... Mechanic #1
Charles Salmon .... Roughneck driver
George Gaulden .... Cowboy
Will Morris Hannis .... Gas station man
The Leon Miller Band .... Themselves

Answer 3

Timothy Bottoms .... Sonny Crawford
Jeff Bridges .... Duane Jackson
Cybill Shepherd .... Jacy Farrow
Ben Johnson .... Sam the Lion
Cloris Leachman .... Ruth Popper
Ellen Burstyn .... Lois Farrow
Eileen Brennan .... Genevieve
Clu Gulager .... Abilene
Sam Bottoms .... Billy
Sharon Ullrick .... Charlene Duggs (as Sharon Taggart)
Randy Quaid .... Lester Marlow
Joe Heathcock .... The Sheriff
Bill Thurman .... Coach Popper
Barc Doyle .... Joe Bob Blanton
Jessie Lee Fulton .... Miss Mosey

The Last Picture Show (1971) is an evocative and bittersweet slice-of-life 'picture show' from young newcomer, 31 year-old director Peter Bogdanovich, formerly a stage actor and film writer/critic. The screenplay was based on the novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry. [Bogdanovich had previously directed only two other smaller feature films, the low-budget Targets (1967) with Boris Karloff cast as a horror-movie star, and the awful Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968) with Mamie Van Doren.] This great picture, Bogdanovich's first major film, was a gritty, authentic-looking, black and white film (considered obsolete at the time since it was the first mainstream Hollywood feature film shot in B/W since the early 60s), with expressive, high-contrast cinematography by Robert Surtees. It was widely acclaimed at the time of its release.

The film was noted as the director's tribute and homage to the classic films of legendary directors Howard Hawks (Red River (1948)), John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath (1940)), and Welles himself (Citizen Kane (1941)). [Old-time western film star Ben Johnson, who had starred in many classic films of the genre, including Ford's She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), Shane (1953), and The Wild Bunch (1969), played the role of an old-time cowboy in the film. Orson Welles suggested to Bogdanovich that he should film in black and white. The film's theme is similar to Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) - about the passing of an earlier way of life due to the advent of the automobile at the turn of the century.]

The episodic, bleak and mournful film was shot on location over an eleven-week period in northwestern Texas in a dusty, wind-swept, one-horse, declining small-town that was on the verge of being forgotten in the early 1950s. Bogdanovich's work recaptures and recreates the period of the early 50s (between WWII and the Korean War). One of the film's posters declared it as "the picture show that introduced America to the forgotten 50's."

The rich character study with a non-star cast dispassionately (but affectionately) depicts the contrasting, mediocre lives of two generations of aimless townspeople with frustrated, unhappy, unfulfilled, routine, despairing and shallow lives (middle-aged adults and naive adolescent teenagers) who cling to the dying and barren town, and try to find solace and escape from boredom in lost dreams, drinking, temporary and manipulative sexual encounters (adulterous and promiscuous relationships), the local movie theatre's shows (and television), or by moving to the big city. Everyone knows everything about everyone else in the insular, claustrophobic town. The coming-of-age characters in the younger generation, and the characters in the older generation who only have their memories, include:

Younger Generation Older Generation
a likeable, high-school athlete and senior (Jeff Bridges)
another quiet, serious senior, his friend (Timothy Bottoms)
his slow-witted, mute pal (Sam Bottoms)
a teenaged temptress (Cybill Shepherd)
an old-timer and ex-cowboy (Ben Johnson)
a once-beautiful, lonely, alcoholic, philandering rich wife (Ellen Burstyn)
a neglected, middle-aged (homosexual) coach's wife (Cloris Leachman)


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