A RAGE TO LIVE

S * T * A * R * R * I * N * G

Suzanne Pleshette
Bradford Dillman
Ben Gazzara
Peter Graves

Bethel Leslie, Carmen Mathews,
Linden Chiles, James Gregory, Ruth White,
Mark Goddard, Sarah Marshall, George Furth,
Virginia Christine, Brett Somers, Frank Maxwell


Year: 1965
Name: Grace Caldwell Tate, nymphomaniac
Music: Nelson Riddle
Title Song: Composed and played by Ferrante & Teicher
Costumes: Howard Shoup, who costumed Pleshette in ROME ADVENTURE,
WALL OF NOISE, A DISTANT TRUMPET, and YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE
Hairstylist: Doris Durkus
Source: A RAGE TO LIVE by John O'Hara
Screenwriter: John T. Kelley
Producer: Lewis J. Rachmil
Director: Walter Grauman
Studio: United Artists

For A RAGE TO LIVE,
Howard Shoup was nominated for an Academy Award
for his costume designs for a black/white film;
he lost to Julie Harris for
DARLING.

R * E * V * I * E * W * S

"Doing her best to infuse a vapid role with distinction, actress Pleshette can scarcely find enough dynamite to light up her eyes. Her eyes, though, are a spectacular fringe benefit in any film—liquid dark velvet, alive with messages that RAGE cannot wither. —TIME

"We have all met rich pushovers like Grace Caldwell, but few so frozen-faced and un-sensuous as Suzanne Pleshette's depiction of her here. Since Grace is the key character in this soapera, Pleshette's inadequacy is fatal. —FILMS IN REVIEW

"[S]pirit is so lacking in the performance of Miss Pleshette that it is almost an insult to the species to call her woman a nymphomaniac. Let's just say that she is naughty in a theatrically mechanical way and that her husband and the author are disapproving. How much duller could nymphomania be? —NEW YORK TIMES

"The likes of a Barbara Stanwyck or a Susan Hayward might have brought flamboyance and passion to the rescue of A RAGE TO LIVE, despite the ineptitude of Walter Grauman's direction. Unfortunately, Suzanne Pleshette was nowhere near that magnitude in the role of the sex-hungry Grace Caldwell." —THE UNITED ARTISTS STORY

"Thesps share the guilt. All names follow titles, and top-featured Suzanne Pleshette misses as the nympho who is dressed to the nines in an eye-catching Howard Shoup wardrobe. Her looks, voice and style are in the Anne Baxter manner, and she can be developed via better material. —VARIETY


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