What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? is a 1969 film made by American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Palomar Pictures Corporation, and The Associates & Aldrich Company, and distributed by Cinerama Releasing Corporation. It was directed by Lee H. Katzin with Bernard Girard (uncredited) and produced by Robert Aldrich with William Aldrich as associate producer and Peter Nelson as executive producer. The screenplay was by Theodore Apstein, based on the nove...
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What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? is a 1969 film made by American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Palomar Pictures Corporation, and The Associates & Aldrich Company, and distributed by Cinerama Releasing Corporation. It was directed by Lee H. Katzin with Bernard Girard (uncredited) and produced by Robert Aldrich with William Aldrich as associate producer and Peter Nelson as executive producer. The screenplay was by Theodore Apstein, based on the novel The Forbidden Garden by Ursula Curtiss. The music score was by Gerald Fried and the cinematography by Joseph F. Biroc.
The film stars Geraldine Page and Ruth Gordon with Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Fuller and Mildred Dunnock.
The opening scene of the film sets the tone. Claire Marrable (Page) is recently widowed and at the funeral, she frantically removes flowers from her husband's coffin, while eerie music plays in the background. A few days later, details of her husband's will is revealed by the junior partner of a law firm (The Bob Newhart...
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