These Old Broads (2001) on Netflix
After the 1960s musical Boy Crazy is re-released, executive Gavin wants Piper Grayson, Kate Westbourne and Addie Holden reunited in a TV special. The three actresses cannot stand each other.
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Plot summary
The re-release of Boy Crazy, the 1960s musical that Piper Grayson, Kate Westbourne and Addie Holden made together, has become a hit, and attention has turned back to its three stars. Gavin, a network television executive, hopes to bring the women together again for a television special. They share one agent, Beryl Mason, who also manages them, and both she and Kate's adopted son Wesley are involved in getting the actresses to attend a reunion show. The difficulty is that Piper, Kate and Addie cannot stand one another, and Beryl is no fonder of the three of them than they are of her.
Cast
- Suzanne Carneyas Connie
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about These Old Broads (2001)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor, who appear together in These Old Broads, stayed away from each other for twelve years after Reynolds's husband Eddie Fisher left her for the grieving Taylor, whose husband Mike Todd, his best friend, had died in a plane crash. Carrie Fisher later arranged their reconciliation on a cruise ship.
- Shirley MacLaine said in a 2001 BBC Omnibus documentary about Elizabeth Taylor that Julie Andrews and Lauren Bacall were originally planned to be in These Old Broads.
SPOILER
The plot point that Kate Westbourne's adopted son Wesley is really her biological son from an affair with the late Dick Preston may have been inspired by the true story of Loretta Young, Judy Lewis and Clark Gable.- The role of Miriam Hodges in These Old Broads was originally offered to June Allyson, who ended up in a cameo instead.
