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Director
  
Initial DVD release
  
August 18, 2009

Duration
  

Language
  
English

5.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy

Costume design
  
Nolan Miller

Country
  
United States

These Old Broads movie poster

Release date
  
February 12, 2001 (2001-02-12) (U.S.)

Cast
  
(Beryl Mason), (Piper Grayson), (Kate Westbourne), (Addie Holden), (Wesley Westbourne),
Peter Graves
(Bill)

Similar movies
  
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Tagline
  
They swore they'd never work together again - their shocking reunion - still throwing tantrums, still stealing headlines, still making producers cry!

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These Old Broads is a 2001 television film written by Carrie Fisher and starring her mother Debbie Reynolds, as well as Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, and Elizabeth Taylor in her final film role. In a 2001 BBC Omnibus documentary about Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley MacLaine says that Julie Andrews and Lauren Bacall were originally planned to be in the movie. The role of Miriam Hodges was originally offered to June Allyson.

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Plot summary

Network television executive Gavin (Nestor Carbonell) hopes to reunite celebrated Hollywood stars Piper Grayson (Reynolds), Kate Westbourne (MacLaine), and Addie Holden (Collins) in a TV special after their 1960s movie musical Boy Crazy is re-released to wide public acclaim in the 1990s. Though the three women share the same agent, Beryl Mason (Taylor), Gavin's seemingly insurmountable obstacle is that they all cannot stand each other.

Cast

  • Shirley MacLaine as Kate Westbourne
  • Debbie Reynolds as Piper Grayson
  • Joan Collins as Addie Holden
  • Elizabeth Taylor as Beryl Mason
  • Jonathan Silverman as Wesley Westbourne
  • Pat Crawford Brown as Miriam Hodges (Addie's mother)
  • Nestor Carbonell as Gavin
  • Peter Graves as Bill
  • Gene Barry as Mr. Stern
  • Back story of leads

    MacLaine, Reynolds, Collins and Taylor had all crossed paths personally and/or professionally in Hollywood over the years. Collins dated MacLaine's brother, Warren Beatty, when he was just starting his film career. Collins was also put on standby to replace an ailing Taylor in the movie Cleopatra (1963 film) but Taylor recovered from her illness and completed the film. Reynolds' husband, Eddie Fisher, left her for a grieving Taylor after his best friend and Taylor's husband, Mike Todd, was killed in a plane crash. Reynolds and Taylor had also been close friends before the affair. MacLaine turned down the role of Molly Brown in The Unsinkable Molly Brown (film) making the role available for Reynolds, who garnered an Oscar nomination for her performance in the film. MacLaine portrayed a character loosely based on Reynolds in Postcards from the Edge (film), which was also written by Reynold's daughter, Carrie Fisher.

    References

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