Eleanor, First Lady of the World

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Category: 39
All Genres: Biography, Drama
Release Year: 1982
Country: USA
Runtime: 120
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: John Erman
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Meet the Blands! They're square . . . They're in love . . . And they kill people. [Australia Theatrical]

An outrageous comedy of sex and murder [Australia Theatrical]

Meet the Blands! They're square...They're in LOVE...AND they kill people.

A tasty comedy of bad manners.

Writing by: Caryl Ledner - writer
Rhoda Lerman - story
Cynthia Whitcomb - writer (as Cynthia Mandelberg)

Produced by: Virginia L. Carter - executive producer
Fern Field - producer
Michael Weisbarth - supervising producer

Cast: Jean Stapleton - Eleanor Roosevelt
Kabir Bedi -
Coral Browne - Lady Reading
Dorothy Dells - Dulles' Secretary
Freddie Jones -
Kenneth Kimmins - Sandifer
Jeff Marcus - Buzz Roosevelt
E.G. Marshall - John Foster Dulles
Arlene Martel - Madame Jahar
Lin McCarthy - Vandenberg
Richard McKenzie - Harry S. Truman

Music: John Addison
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Plot Outline: Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky...
Plot: Biography of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who forged a new role for herself in the years after her husband's death.

Movie Quotes: Paul: It's amazing what you can do with a cheap piece of meat if you know how to treat it.

Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
A Sister To The Director..... Wendy Bartel

Goofs: We know about 6 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When Paul Bland leaves to go to the grocery store he leaves the frying pan on the orange chair by the door, in the next shot when "the hippie" arrives late, the frying pan is gone.

Trivia: There are 3 entries in the trivia list - like these:

Working independently, Bartel scraped together financing from family and friends and shot the film in piecemeal fashion when he could afford it.
The film's tagline is a parody of the tagline for Bonnie and Clyde (1967), "They're young, they're in love... and they kill people."
Years after the film became a cult favorite, a sequel was scripted, in which a man blackmailed the Blands with knowledge of their killings. Chevy Chase was slated to play this man, and Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov would reprise their roles from the original, but Bartel died before it could get started.