A Face in the Crowd(1957)
movie - first aired/released 1957-05-29 - 125 min - audience 7.6
Drama
Directed by Elia Kazan
The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.
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Cast
Andy GriffithLarry 'Lonesome' Rhodes
Patricia NealMarcia Jeffries
Anthony FranciosaJoey DePalma
Walter MatthauMel Miller
Lee RemickBetty Lou Fleckum
Percy WaramGeneral Haynesworth
Paul McGrathMacey
Rod BrasfieldBeanie
Marshall NeilanSenator Worthington Fuller
Alexander KirklandJim Collier- Charles IrvingMr. Luffler
Howard SmithJ.B. Jeffries
Kay MedfordFirst Mrs. Rhodes- Big Jeff BessSheriff Big Jeff Bess
- Henry SharpAbe Steiner
R.G. ArmstrongTeleprompter Operator (uncredited)
Lois NettletonMr. Macey's Nurse (uncredited)
Diana SandsHomeless Woman (uncredited)
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