Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017) on Netflix
R20171h 45mBiographyDramaRomance
London, 1979: actress Gloria Grahame asks Peter Turner, an actor in her boarding house, to practice disco dancing. Their friendship becomes a romance despite the years between them.
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Plot summary
Gloria Grahame, an Academy Award-winning American actress, is playing Sadie in a London production of Rain in 1979 and lodging in a boarding house, where Peter Turner, a British actor, lives as well. She invites him to rehearse disco steps, they take in Alien together, and after a quarrel they become lovers in spite of the years between them. Later Peter visits her at her home in a Malibu trailer park, where Gloria's mother Jeanne welcomes the match and her sister Joy does not. In October 1981 Gloria is starring as Amanda in The Glass Menagerie in Lancaster when she falls ill, and she calls Peter, who brings her to his family's home in Liverpool to recover.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Eon Productions, best known for the James Bond franchise, produced the film; it was only the second non-Bond film to be released under the Eon banner since Call Me Bwana in 1963.
- The real Peter Turner, whose memoir the film is based on, appears in his own story, playing the stagehand Jack in the scene where Peter takes Gloria to a theater to read from Romeo and Juliet.
