Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Leaving July 31
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45m
Directed by Joan Micklin Silver • 1976 • United States
Starring Shelley Duvall, Bud Cort, Veronica Cartwright
Adapted from the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald—a literary landmark that all but defined the mores of 1920s Jazz Age youth—this PBS-produced short film stars the wonderfully idiosyncratic Shelley Duvall in one of her finest performances as Bernice, a shy young country girl who travels to the city to to visit her sophisticated flapper cousin (Veronica Cartwright) and winds up getting a crash course in the ways of modern womanhood.
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