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The Loved One is a black comedy film based on Evelyn Waugh's novel and Terry Southern's screenplay, satirizing the funeral business in Los Angeles. It stars Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer, and Rod Steiger, and features cameo appearances by many celebrities.
- Evelyn Waugh
- 1948
The Loved One: Directed by Tony Richardson. With Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer, Rod Steiger. Satire on the funeral business, in which a young British poet goes to work at a Hollywood cemetery.
- (4K)
- Comedy
- Tony Richardson
- 1965-10-11
The Loved One is a novel by British writer Evelyn Waugh, published in 1948. It follows the adventures of Dennis Barlow, a British poet and pet mortician, in a Hollywood cemetery.
- (12.7K)
- Paperback
- Evelyn Waugh
The funeral business gets a giant raspberry in this wickedly wacky, resplendently ridiculous farce based on Evelyn Waugh's macabre comic masterpiece and dire...
Dennis Barlow, an English poet whose speciality is plagiarism, arrives in Hollywood to stay with his uncle, Sir Francis Hinsley. Sir Francis, a long-time art director for motion picture productions is fired by his studio in an economy move and commits suicide by hanging himself.
- Tony Richardson, Les Gorall, Kurt Neumann
- Robert Morse
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Overview. Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos.
