Big Blonde (1980)

Oscarnominee Sally Kellerman stars in Dorothy Parkers 1929 O. Henry Prizewinning short story which poignantly chronicles the life of a vivacious showroom model and goodtime party girl in the 1920s who gives up her highlife for marriage to a traveling salesman played by fourtime Emmy winner John Lithgow. When he turns out to be a harddrinking philanderer, the marriage deteriorates and the nowblowsy and dissolute aging flapper turns to drinking for solace, moving from man to man as she sinks into an alcoholic haze. Director: Kirk Browning. Writers: Dorothy Parker (short story), Ellen M. Violett. Stars: Sally Kellerman, Harris Laskawy, Victor Griffin, Trey Wilson, Jess Osuna, James Gallery, Donna Mitchell, Richard Dow, Anita Morris, Michael Lombard, Peggy Lowe, John Lithgow, Peg Murray, George Coe, Bert Michaels, Hansford Rowe, Rosetta LeNoire, Jesse C. Kennedy, Tony Devon.