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A precocious teenager chronicles her own rise from trailer park squalor to singing stardom by way of a supermarket talent contest. In her journals, Daisy Clover tells the story of how she is discovered by a Hollywood movie producer at 14 and proceeds through large doses of work, sex and Benzedrine to a 24-hour marriage, a nervous breakdown, retirement, and finally obscurity in New York. A has-been before her late teens, she makes a vaudeville comeback in Atlantic City at the age of 24.
Original Release
12/22/1965
US Release
12/22/1965
Cast
Name | Character |
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Natalie Wood | Daisy Clover |
Christopher Plummer | Raymond Swan |
Robert Redford | Lewis Wade / Wade Lewis |
Ruth Gordon | The Dealer - Mrs. Clover |
Roddy McDowall | Walter Baines |
Katharine Bard | Melora Swan |
Peter Helm | Milton Hopwood |
Betty Harford | Gloria Clover Goslett |
John Hale | Harry Goslett |
Harold Gould | Cop on Pier |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Natalie Wood | Daisy Clover |
Christopher Plummer | Raymond Swan |
Robert Redford | Lewis Wade / Wade Lewis |
Ruth Gordon | The Dealer - Mrs. Clover |
Roddy McDowall | Walter Baines |
Katharine Bard | Melora Swan |
Peter Helm | Milton Hopwood |
Betty Harford | Gloria Clover Goslett |
John Hale | Harry Goslett |
Harold Gould | Cop on Pier |
Ottola Nesmith | Dolores |
Edna Holland | Cynara |
John Barrymore | Self |
Humphrey Bogart | Self |
John Breen | Crew Member |
Boyd Cabeen | Crew Member |
Dee Carroll | Mrs. Clover's Nurse |
Fred Curt | Acrobat in Circus Number |
John Philip Dayton | John |
Gertrude Flynn | Daisy's Nurse |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Alan J. Pakula | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1966 | Oscar | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Nominated |
1966 | Oscar | Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color | Nominated |
1966 | Oscar | Best Costume Design, Color | Nominated |
1966 | Golden Globe | Best Actress - Comedy or Musical | Nominated |
1966 | Golden Globe | Best Supporting Actress | Won |
1966 | Golden Globe | Most Promising Newcomer - Male | Won |