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Fedora

Summary: Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement only to discover the horrible truth behind her success.

Release Date: September 13, 1978

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Billy Wilder

Writers: Billy Wilder

, I.A.L. Diamond

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Bavaria Atelier, Lorimar, NF Geria Filmgesellshaft GmbH

Distributor: United Artists, CBS, Warner Home Video, Olive Films

Countries: France, West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,727,000

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1970s abusive mother academy of motion picture arts and sciences actor playing himself actress adverse reaction aegean sea amphetamines assistant director assumed identity attempted suicide ballroom bandaged face bare breasts based on story beach beads beauty mark beauty treatment binoculars boat bodyguard botched plastic surgery burning a letter buying drugs camera film captivity caretaker ceiling fan celebrity celebrity death character name as title charade child born out of wedlock cognac concussion contraband cosmetic surgery count count and countess countess daughter born out of wedlock daughter pretending to be her mother dead body death of daughter death of movie star death of title character deception diary disfigured face disfigurement diva doctor domineering mother down on his luck dressing room driven insane drug addiction drug rehab dysfunctional mother daughter relationship elderly woman in wheelchair electric blanket enigmatic woman experimental medical procedure exploitation facial disfigurement facial scar fading star female nudity female topless nudity fictional academy award film crew film director film in film film producer as character film script film set film within a film filmmaking flashback flashback within a flashback flower arrangement flower wreath former movie star gay slur german shepherd dog gift shop gloves greek island guard dog guest book guestbook health clinic heat lamp hidden identity hollywood legend hollywood star honor guard hotel hotel manager hotel room identity crisis illegitimate daughter impersonation intercepted letter isolation journal jumping under a train knocked unconscious korfu greece learning the truth letter lily pad living in seclusion loss of identity love letter lying in state makeover male wears an earring man in jockey shorts mansion medical clinic medical procedure medical restraints metafiction mortician mother daughter relationship mourner movie actress movie director movie industry movie producer movie script movie set movie star moviemaking naked breasts narrated by protagonist news broadcast newspaper headline nude scene nudity nurse obsession obsession with youth old hollywood old woman uses a wheelchair one word title open casket oscar award oscar statuette overdose of sleeping pills paranoid delusion paris france physician plastic surgeon plastic surgery victim polish aristocrat polish woman press conference prologue recluse reclusive celebrity record player reference to 20th century fox reference to a cadillac reference to anna karenina reference to cbs reference to charles boyer reference to clark gable reference to coco chanel reference to ernest hemingway reference to federico fellini reference to ford motor company reference to francisco franco reference to frederic chopin reference to fredric march reference to harry s. truman reference to hedda hopper reference to henry fonda reference to j. paul getty reference to jack nicholson reference to jean harlow reference to jean paul sartre reference to jean sibelius reference to joan crawford reference to joan of arc reference to john barrymore reference to john paul getty reference to laurence olivier reference to leo tolstoy reference to life magazine reference to lola montez reference to louella parsons reference to madame bovary reference to marilyn monroe reference to marlene dietrich reference to maurice chevalier reference to maurice ravel reference to metro goldwyn mayer reference to michael york reference to pablo picasso reference to paramount pictures reference to paul muni reference to robert taylor reference to ronald colman reference to rudolph valentino reference to sam goldwyn reference to samuel goldwyn reference to sergei rachmaninoff reference to spencer tracy reference to steve mcqueen reference to the academy awards reference to the cannes film festival reference to the nobel prize reference to the old vic theatre reference to vivien leigh reference to walter winchell reference to warner bros.reference to warren beatty reference to winston churchill reference to world war one reference to world war two retired actress retirement revealing identity rolls royce run over by a train santa monica california scene during opening credits screenplay secluded house seclusion secret secret child secret revealed showbiz drama side effect slashed with scissors soundstage star treatment straitjacket string quartet stroke victim subterfuge suicide suicide by jumping under a train sun hat sunglasses switched identity syringe telephone call television broadcast television studio title appears in writing title spoken by character told in flashback town car toxic mother daughter relationship villa visitation voice over narration voice over writing wake wallpaper waltzing water lily wheelchair wheelchair user white briefs white gloves worry beads writing on fogged window year 1947 year 1962 younger version of character

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