The Third Girl from the Left

6.6	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Peter Medak

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Kim Novak
Gloria Joyce

Michael Brandon
David

George Furth
Zimmy

Michael Conrad
Hugh

Bern Hoffman
Len Winters

Louis Guss
Murray

Barbi Benton
Melanie

Anne Ramsey
Madeline

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The Third Girl from the Left

7 years, 7 months ago at Sep 21 16:13

JxSxPx

After 1960, Kim Novak lost interest in being a movie star and her film appearances became sporadic. By 1973 she hadn’t made a movie in four years. Then she appeared in Tales That Witness Madness and this film, her television debut. While her performance was self-conscious and monotone (essentially banging on the same neurotic key of fluttering, hand waving, and anxious breathing) in Madness, she... read more

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The Third Girl From the Left might have passed without notice had the film not been the highly touted TV-movie debuts of Kim Novak and Tony Curtis. Kim heads the cast as an ageing New York City chorus girl, while Tony plays a third-rate nightclub comic. Determining that her romance with Curtis is dead-ending, Kim takes up with handsome young delivery boy Michael Brandon. The screenplay by Dory Previn (Andre's ex) paints a fairly bleak picture of the showbiz scene. Previn also supplies a song, "Gloria" sung not by Novak but by Curtis!

Release date: 16 October 1973

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JxSxPx posted a review 7 years, 7 months ago

The Third Girl from the Left

“After 1960, Kim Novak lost interest in being a movie star and her film appearances became sporadic. By 1973 she hadn’t made a movie in four years. Then she appeared in Tales That Witness Madness and this film, her television debut. While her performance was self-conscious and monotone (essentially banging on the same neurotic key of fluttering, hand waving, and anxious breathing) in Madness, she’s touchingly vulnerable and real in The Third Girl from the Left. While the film is not great, undiscovered treasure, it’s easy to see Novak’s attraction to the material. Parts of the Third Girl feel ripped straight from her life. The story of an aging chorus girl who realizes her career and romantic life are going nowhere, life has passed her by, and her choices and chances are quickl” read more