Rich and Famous (1981) on Netflix
Liz Hamilton and Merry Noel Blake meet at Smith College. Merry marries and settles in Malibu; Liz wins praise as a writer, and Merry starts to envy her career.
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- Rotten Tomatoes60%
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Plot summary
Liz Hamilton and Merry Noel Blake, an all-American blonde from Atlanta, become close friends as freshmen at Smith College in the 1950s. Merry elopes with Doug Blake in 1959 and settles into a beach house in Malibu with their daughter Debby; Liz writes a first book that earns critical praise and drifts through affairs, among them one with a young reporter, Chris Adams. Merry admires Liz's glamorous career and, though content at home, decides to write a novel of her own, relying on Liz for help. Their friendship is followed across 22 years, in segments set in 1969, 1975 and 1981.
Cast
- Cheryl Robinsonas UCLA Voice (voice)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Rich and Famous (1981)
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- Robert Mulligan was set to direct Rich and Famous, but four days after filming began the production shut down when members of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Screen Actors Guild went on strike, and prior commitments forced him to withdraw.
- Interiors for Rich and Famous were shot at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in Culver City, and the sets were later rented for the Biltmore Hotel scenes in the 1984 blockbuster Ghostbusters.
- Meg Ryan and an 8-year-old Nicole Eggert both made their screen debuts in Rich and Famous, playing Merry's daughter in the 1981 and 1969 segments respectively.
- Rich and Famous proved to be the last film directed by George Cukor, and it also marked the screen debuts of an 8-year-old Nicole Eggert and Meg Ryan.
