Themes: Pygmalion Stories, Social Climbing, Bohemian Life
Main Cast: Shelley Duvall, Lane Binkley, Veronica Cartwright, Dennis Christopher, Bud Cort, Henry Fonda, Polly Holliday, Gary Springer, Patrick Reynolds
Release Year: 1976
Country: US
Run Time: 49 minutes
Plot
Many observers consider the 60-minute Bernice Bobs Her Hair to be the best-ever filmed adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Bernice (Shelley Duvall), a shy retiring girl of the Roaring 20s, yearns to be popular. On the advice of her flapper cousin Marjorie (Veronica Cartwright), Bernice cuts her unfashionable long hair into a short bob, begins dressing more stylishly, and learns the Most Valuable Rule: "When you're with a man, there are only three topics of conversation: you, me and us." Bernice Bobs Her Hair first aired on PBS' American Playhouse on April 5, 1977. It was telecast in tandem with a dramatization of Sherwood Anderson's oft-adapted I'm a Fool. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Joan Micklin Silver - Director, Ralph Rosenblum - Editor, Dick Hyman - Composer (Music Score), Kenneth Van Sickle - Cinematographer, F. Scott Fitzgerald - Short Story Author
