Tender Is the Night
tv show
6 total episodes
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1 seasons
First Aired September 23, 1985
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Overview
Tender Is the Night is a 1985 television drama miniseries co-produced by Showtime, 20th Century Fox Television, BBC, and 7 Network. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1934 novel of the same name, the six-part series focuses on themes of love, ambition, mental illness, and the decline of the American Dream. 1920s, the French Riviera: wealthy expatriate Nicole Warren's mental illness strains her marriage to psychiatrist Dick. A young American actress named Rosemary Hoyt arrives and is drawn into their circle, becoming romantically involved with the older, married Dick and disrupting the fragile balance of the group. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to another sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them all.
Cast
Peter Strauss
as
Dick Diver
Mary Steenburgen
as
Nicole Diver (née Warren)
Sean Young
as
Rosemary Hoyt
John Heard
as
Abe North
Kate Harper
as
Baby Warren
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Jürgen Brügger
as
Franz Gregorovius
Joris Stuyck
as
Tommy Barban
Astrid Frank
as
Kaethe Gregorovius
Stéphane Freiss
as
Sgt. di Ville
Ed Asner
as
Devereux Warren
Joanna David
as
Hannah
Nancy Paul
as
Mary North
Crew
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Derek Dodd
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Production Design
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Ken Westbury
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Director of Photography
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Barbara Kidd
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Costume Design
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Robert Knights
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Director
Tariq Anwar
as
Editor
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Betty Willingale
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Producer
Jonathan Powell
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Executive Producer
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Richard Rodney Bennett
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Original Music Composer
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Malcolm Cowley
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Writer
Dennis Potter
as
Writer
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Novel