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The stories of several people are told as they stay at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth which features dining at "Separate Tables."
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Title: Separate Tables (1958)
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Deborah Kerr | ... | Sibyl Railton-Bell | |
| Rita Hayworth | ... | Ann Shankland | |
| David Niven | ... | Major Angus Pollock | |
| Wendy Hiller | ... | Pat Cooper | |
| Burt Lancaster | ... | John Malcolm | |
| Gladys Cooper | ... | Mrs. Railton-Bell | |
| Cathleen Nesbitt | ... | Lady Matheson | |
| Felix Aylmer | ... | Mr. Fowler | |
| Rod Taylor | ... | Charles | |
| Audrey Dalton | ... | Jean | |
| May Hallatt | ... | Miss Meacham | |
| Priscilla Morgan | ... | Doreen | |
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It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life at the Beauregard is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock is not what he appears to be. The news is particularly shocking for her frail daughter, Sibyl, who is secretly in love with the Major. Written by Shannon Patrick Sullivan <shannon@mun.ca>
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reference to horace | reference to aristotle | snobbishness | dominant mother | seaside resort |Taglines:
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Major Angus Pollock: Because I don't like myself the way I am, i suppose. I had to invent someone else... It's not harmful really. We all have our daydreams. Mine have just gone a step further than most people.
[laughs ironically]
Major Angus Pollock: Sometimes I just manage to believe in the Major myself.
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(1958)
Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Harold Adamson
Sung by Vic Damone (uncredited)
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The third successive year in which Deborah Kerr was nominated for Best Actress at the Academy Awards for her performance, after nods for The King and I (1956) and Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957). See more »Goofs
When Major Pollock is handed the newspaper in the last scene of the movie, it is folded in half in one shot but folded in fourths in another - the evidence being the picture on the back 'half' being upright. In reality, if in half the picture would be upside down. See more »Quotes
Sibyl Railton-Bell: Why have you told so many awful lies?Major Angus Pollock: Because I don't like myself the way I am, i suppose. I had to invent someone else... It's not harmful really. We all have our daydreams. Mine have just gone a step further than most people.
[laughs ironically]
Major Angus Pollock: Sometimes I just manage to believe in the Major myself.
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Delbert Mann did not want the song in the opening titles, and he discovered an old British print that included David Raksin's main title rather than the song, as he had wanted it, being used in a film festival. See more »Soundtracks
Separate Tables(1958)
Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Harold Adamson
Sung by Vic Damone (uncredited)
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11 February 1959 (France) See more »Also Known As:
Separate Tables See more »Filming Locations:
Stage 5, The Lot - 1041 N. Formosa Avenue, West Hollywood, California, USAEdit
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This film came highly recommended to me by my parents, so I was anxious to watch it. Again, I realized that my impression of Burt Lancaster is completely different from what he actually is as an actor. His portrayal of an alcoholic man who gets a visit from his ex-wife (Hayworth) at the hotel he resides is again different from the boisterous, oafish guy that I always believed him to be when I was younger. Also at the hotel are a varied group of characters including an oppressive woman who lords over her timid spinster daughter (Kerr) and a retired Army officer with some secrets, (Niven) who are all taken care of by the distant, yet sincere proprietress, Pat Cooper (the amazing Wendy Hiller). The film encompasses all of their separate plot lines, and interweaves them gradually until the climatic ending. There was no action in this film, just wonderful, straight melodrama and some great writing and acting. A year later, Lancaster and Hecht, the producers behind this film, went on to produce `Sweet Smell of Success', which is infinitely more searing and dark, but it was interesting to see the precursor to that film. I recommend this film for anyone who appreciates solid classic melodramas.
--Shelly