3 Women
By April 19, 2004
“Sometimes I feel like little Eva, running across the ice…with the dogs yapping at my ass,” Robert Altman said in 1976, the year before 3 Women debuted. “Maybe the reason I’m doing all Read more »
SYNOPSIS: In a dusty, under-populated California resort town, Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek), a naïve and impressionable Southern waif begins her life as a nursing home attendant. There, Pinky finds her role model in fellow nurse “Thoroughly Modern” Millie Lammoreaux (Shelley Duvall), a misguided would-be sophisticate and hopeless devotee of Cosmopolitan and Woman’s Day magazines. When Millie accepts Pinky into her home at the Purple Sage singles complex, Pinky’s hero-worship evolves into something far stranger and more sinister than either could have anticipated. Featuring brilliant performances from Spacek and Duvall, Robert Altman’s dreamlike masterpiece, 3 Women, careens from the humorous to the chilling to the surreal, resulting in one of the most unusual and compelling films of the 1970s.
| Millie Lammoreaux | Shelley Duvall |
| Pinky Rose | Sissy Spacek |
| Willy Hart | Janice Rule |
| Edgar Hart | Robert Fortier |
| Mrs. Rose | Ruth Nelson |
| Mr. Rose | John Cromwell |
| Ms. Bunweill | Sierra Pecheur |
| Dr. Maas | Craig Richard Nelson |
| Doris | Maysie Hoy |
| Alcira | Belita Moreno |
| Polly | Leslie Ann Hudson |
| Peggy | Patricia Ann Hudson |
| Director | Robert Altman |
| Director of photography | Chuck Rosher |
| Music | Gerald Busby |
| Editing | Dennis Hill |
| Art director | James D. Vance |
| Production executive / First assistant director | Tommy Thompson |
| Associate producers | Robert Eggenweiller and Scott Bushnell |
| Murals | Bodhi Wind |
By April 19, 2004
“Sometimes I feel like little Eva, running across the ice…with the dogs yapping at my ass,” Robert Altman said in 1976, the year before 3 Women debuted. “Maybe the reason I’m doing all Read more »