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War Widow, The

[Played Aug. 5 via Eventbrite and available on YouTube and DVD on www.ladyslipper.org and www.johntopping.com/Harvey%20Perr/War%20Widow/war_widow.html.] Gorgeous period costumes highlight Paul Bogart's controversial, groundbreaking, low-key, well-acted, bittersweet, 85-minute, 1976 film based on playwright Harvey Perr's play in which an unhappy, piano-playing, wealthy housewife (Pamela Bellwood), who cares for her young daughter (Stephanie Retsek) and lives with her controlling mother (Katharine Bard), becomes secretly smitten with a charismatic photographer (Frances Lee McCain) she meets in a tearoom in New York City during WWI while her husband (Tim Matheson) is off at war overseas and then must make a difficult decision that will affect the direction her life will take.
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