Lilith (Columbia Pictures) (1964)

The Cast Vincent Bruce Warren Beatty Lilith Arthur Jean Seberg Stephen Evshevsky Peter Fonda Bea Brice Kim Hunter Mrs. Yvonne Meaghan Anne Meacham Dr. Lavrier James Patterson aural Jessica Walter Norman .... Gene Hackman Bob Clayfield Robert Reilly Howie ....Rene Auberjenois Vincent's grandmother ; Lucy Smith Mr. Gordon Maurice Brenner Miss Glassman Jeanne Barr Mr. Palakis....Richard Higgs Girl at the bar Elizabeth Bader Lonely girl ........ Alice Spivak Lonely girl's father Walter Arnold Lonely girl's mother Kathleen Phelan Lilith's mother (dream) Cecilia Ray Her chauffeur (dream) Gunnar Peters Tournament judge L. Jerome Offutt Tournament announcer W. Jerome Offutt Older watermelon boy Robert Jolivette Younger watermelon boy Jason Jolivette Assistant to Dr. Lavrier Jeno Mate Benito, the dancer Ben Carruthers Psychodrama Moderator Dina Paisner Receptionist Pawnee Sills Doctors Luther Foulk, Kenneth Fuchs, Steve Dawson, Michael Paras Ambulance Doctor Morton Taylor Ambulance Attendants Joavan Curran, Rick Branda, Wade Taylor, Tony Lombard, David Barry, Frank Nanoia Nurses Joanne Bayes, Barbara Lowe, Patsy Klein, Gwen Van Dam, Eadie Renaud Occupational Therapists Rosalie Posner, Thom Brann, Louis Jenkins, Tracee Towers, Virginia Schneider, Robert Miller, Bruce Powers, Don Donnellan, Ken Naarden, Ron Cunningham Patients Katherine Gregg, Edith Fellows, Page Jones, Olympia Dukakis, Mildred Smith, Cyntha MacAdams, Wendell Phillips, Jr., Tony Grey, Elizabeth Lawrence, Harvey Jason, Gordon Phillips, Robert Dahdah, B. J. DeSimone, Marie-Antoinette, Cornelius Frizell, Janet Banzett, Tina Rome, Thelma Ray, Katha Cale, Harry Northup, G. K. Osborne, Charles Tyner, Sonya Zomina, Anna van der Heide, Jocella Jackson, Amelie Barlson, Bess Carlton, Sylvia Gassel, David Craig, Bud Truland, Ruth Baker, Ceil Ray, Jeanne DeFlorio, Joe Rankin, Paul Varro, Stuart Goodman, Billie Erlich, Peter Bosche. (Mat IC; Still No. 141) Warren Beatty explains the Maryland sports of "jousting" to co-star Jean Seberg in this scene from Robert Rossen's production, "Lilith,"" new Columbia Pictures release. GENERAL ADVANCE “Lilith,” which opens ....... at the Theatre with Warren Beatty and Jean Seberg starred, is Robert Rossen’s first film production since his highly-successful “The Hustler,” which won nine Academy Award nominations among other honors. As with “The Hustler” and other of his topflight dramas, “Lilith” reportedly probes new areas of excitement and conflict to expand the boundaries of the contemporary screen. Based on the best-selling J. R. Salamanca novel, a Book of the Month Club selection, “Lilith” is the story of a girl who has created for herself a world of love, unlimited by sex, age or numbers. The incredible beauty of the world in which she lives is shattered—as she is shattered—by reality. Eagerly sought by producers for dozens of important parts, handsome young Warren Beatty as eagerly agreed to play the young war veteran whose efforts to help the helpless, in “Lilith,” lead inevitably to tragedy. Miss Seberg, possessed of an elfin, fragile charm and breathtaking young beauty, stars in the title role of the film, her first American film-making venture in several years, during which she became an international star in French “new wave” films. Co-starred in “Lilith” are Peter Fonda and Kim Hunter. Lanky son of Henry and -brother of Jane, Fonda plays a young man also captivated by Lilith’s affectionate generosity and capacity for boundless rapture; Miss Hunter, a woman trying to help Lilith return from her incredible world to one that may be less desirable. but still is more “sane.” Rossen, who made the Academy Award-winning “All the King’s Men,” produced, directed and wrote the screenplay of “Lilith.” ROBERT ROSSEN “Lilith,” Columbia Pictures release starring Warren Beatty and Jean Seberg at the ...... Theatre, is the film chosen by producer-director-writer Robert Rossen as his first since the prize-winning, internationally -famous “The Hustler.” As with other of his pictures, Rossen found in “Lilith” a challenging, unusual and dramatic theme. “Lilith” tells the story of a girl who has created a world uniquely her own, a world of boundless love, unlimited by sex or age or numbers. Peter Fonda and Kim Hunter costar in the drama, which is based on J. R. Salamanca’s novel. Rossen has a formidable record of successful, and provocative, films. A Broadway playwright and director at the age of 21, his early Hollywood experience included screenplays for “They Won’t Forget,” “The Sea Wolf,’ “Blues in the Night,” “Dust Be My Destiny,” “The Roaring Twenties,” and “Edge of Darkness,” to name just a few. In 1947, Rossen turned director, making “Johnny O’Clock” and “Body and Soul.” Then came “All the King’s Men,’ which won the Academy Award as best picture of the year, and other honors. oe eee eee WARREN BEATTY One of the most exciting and controversial young performers on the sereen today, Warren Beatty currently stars with Jean Seberg at the Theatre in Robert Rossen’s “Lilith,” Columbia Pictures’ release co-starring Peter Fonda and Kim Hunter. His role in “Lilith” is Beatty’s first in many months; he deliberately waited until a part was offered him that he really wanted to do. In discussing “Lilith,’ Beatty usually refers to the fact that Rossen, its producer director writer, also was responsible for “The Hustler,” which offered Paul Newman the best role in that actor’s career and achieved a total of nine Academy Award nominations. Beatty doesn’t know if the lightning will strike again; he does know that Rossen also made the Award-winning “All the King’s Men” and other notable films. Virginia-born, Beatty was a prominent high school athlete who turned down ten college football scholarships because he had decided on an acting career. Both his mother and his maternal grandmother taught acting and directed little theatre groups, and his sister, Shirley MacLaine, was also headed for a stage career. Beatty studied acting in New York, supporting himself as a bricklayer‘s helper and construction worker, and as a sandhog helping to build the third tube of the Lincoln Tunnel under the Hudson River. He gradually broke into television and summer stock and, finally, became a star of the first magnitude on Broadway with his debut performance in William Inge’s “A Loss of Roses.” Hollywood immediately sought him out. In his first year in Hollywood, Beatty appeared in Elia Kazan’s “Splendor in the Grass,” co-starred with Natalie Wood; in Tennessee Williams’ “The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone,” co-starred with Vivien Leigh; and in “All Fall Down,” costarred with Eva Marie Saint. In “Lilith,” he plays a young war veteran anxious to help people who need help. Desperately attracted to a girl in his care, the girl Lilith, who has created for herself a world of boundless love, unlimited by age, sex or numbers, Beatty discovers he no longer is certain which is the sane, the “right,” the desirable world. Anne Meacham, James Patterson and Robert Reilly are featured in “Lilith,” a Centaur production produced, directed and written by Robert Rossen from the Book of the Month novel by J. R. Salamanca. (Mat 2C; Still No. 82) Warren Beatty and Jean Seberg star in the Robert Rossen production, "Lilith," new Columbia Pictures release based on the best-selling novel by J. R. Salamanca. Story of a girl who created her own world of unlimited love, "Lilith'' co-stars Peter Fonda and Kim Hunter. PETER FONDA Peter Fonda is a “promising new actor” currently co-starred at the ae ack Theatre in Robert Rossen’s “Lilith,” the Columbia Pictures release starring Warren Beatty and Jean Seberg and also co-starring Kim Hunter. It was as a “promising new actor” that young Fonda, son of Henry and brother of Jane, was honored by the United Theatre Owners of America for his work in “Tammy and the Doctor,” and it was how he was honored on Broadway with the New York Drama Critics Award and the Daniel Blum Award for his performance in “Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole.” Young Fonda may not agree with the “promising,” he does agree he still has much to learn. His role in “Lilith,” for example, is that of an almost-cured mental patient who is tragically attracted to a fellowpatient, Lilith. “To play in ‘Lilith’ with a director like Robert Rossen,’ Fonda says, “T can’t help but learn something as an actor, At my age in the business, I would be out of my mind to turn down any opportunity to work with that kind of move-maker.” Fonda, who was born in 1939, wrote, produced, directed and acted in a satiric play, “Stalag 1714”, when he was 14, at school in Massachusetts. He directed and acted in college theatricals at Omaha University and, during and after college, performed at the Community Playhouse in Omaha. He is not devoted to any formal school of acting, preferring the easy naturalism best exemplified by his own father’s acting style. “Lilith” was produced and directed by Robert Rossen from his own screenplay, based on the Book of the Month novel by J. R. Salamanca. A Centaur production, “Lilith” features Anne Meacham, James Patterson and Robert Reilly. AWARD WINNERS Robert Rossen, whose “All the King’s Men” won the Academy Award as best picture of the year, produced, directed and wrote the screenplay for “Lilith,” new Columbia Pictures release at the Theatre with Warren Beatty and Jean Seberg starred. Working in similar capacities on “Lilith” were two Academy Award winners from “The Hustler,” the recent, internationally honored Rossen film which won nine Oscar nominations; they are Eugene Shuftan, director of photography, and Gene Callahan, set decorator. Peter Fonda and Kim Hunter are co-starred in “Lilith,” which is a Centaur production based on the J. R. Salamanca novel. eee eo ee (Mat IA; Still No. WB-10) Warren Beatty stars with Jean Seberg in the Robert Rossen production, "Lilith," based on the best-selling novel by J. R. Salamanca. "Lilith," is a Columbia release. TODAY’S ‘KNIGHTS’ A. modern-day jousting tournament—with horsemen using lances to spear steel rings instead of each other—is one of the colorful Maryland traditions which figures importantly in Robert Rossen’s “Lilith,” Columbia Pictures release starring Warren Beatty and Jean Seberg at the ...... Theatre. Beatty is the triumphant lancer in the competition, and he wears Miss Seberg’s kerchief on his arm as her own true knight. Rossen, who produced, directed and wrote the screenplay for “Lilith” from the best-selling novel by J. R. Salamanca, took a company of more than 100 technicians and extras to film the sport on the Fair Grounds of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in the Montgomery County town of Barnesville, Maryland—population 150. The Maryland version of jousting involves groups of riders in three categories of proficiency — rookies, amateurs and professionals—charging down an 80-foot course with lances poised to spear rings of graduated sizes suspended from each of three arches. All aspects of the sport are regulated by the Maryland State Jousting Tournament Association, Inc., which coordinates local competition dates each year. In the 1962 season of the Maryland Legislature, jousting was officially declared the “state sport.” Jousting underwent a revival of interest following the Second World War, although there are some places in Maryland where the annual events have been held for more than seventy years. Some riders are members of families in which parents, grand-parents and even great grand-parents have previouly competed. Versions of the sport may be found in Virginia and West Virginia, and it is being revived in the states of Louisiana, South Carolina and in Washington, D. C. Peter Fonda and Kim Hunter are co-starred in “Lilith,” a Centaur production with a supporting cast which includes Anne Meacham, James Patterson and Robert Reilly. (Mat 2B; Still No. 110) Jean Seberg as "'Lilith'' watches co-star Warren Beatty as he tries to understand the unique world she has created for herself, a world of unlimited love. It's a scene from the Robert Rossen production, a Columbia Pctures release. Page 12