Ode to Billy Joe (film)
Ode to Billy Joe is a 1976 film with a screenplay by Herman Raucher, inspired by the 1967 hit song by Bobbie Gentry, titled "Ode to Billie Joe".
The film was directed and produced by Max Baer, Jr. and stars Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor.
Made for $1.1 million, it grossed $27 million at the box office, plus earnings in excess of $2.65 million in the foreign market, $4.75 million from television, and $2.5 million from video.
Gentry's song recounts the day when Billie Joe McAllister (a fictional person) committed suicide by jumping off the Tallahatchie Bridge on Choctaw Ridge, Mississippi.
When Gentry and Raucher got together to work on the screenplay, she explained she had no idea why the real person who inspired the character of Billie Joe had killed himself.
Raucher thus had a free hand to pick one.
His novelization of the story, published the year of the film's release as a movie tie-in, used the same rationale for the suicide.
Glynnis O'Connor
Glynnis O'Connor( born November 19, 1956) is an American actress of television, film, radio, and theater.
She first gained wide attention in the mid-1970s with leading roles in the television version of" Our Town" and in the short- lived series" Sons and Daughters".
She also co-starred with Robby Benson in the films" Jeremy" in 1973 and" Ode to Billy Joe" in 1976, as well as with Jan-Michael Vincent in the film" Baby Blue Marine" in 1976.
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John Farrell (businessman)
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Peter Levin
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Hoyt Ming
Hoyt Ming( October 6, 1902 – April 28, 1985) was an American old- time fiddler.
Hoyt Ming was born in Choctaw County, Mississippi.
He played fiddle with the Pep Steppers, a family old- time band from Tupelo, sometimes billed as" Floyd Ming and the Pep Steppers", instead of using his real name" Hoyt".
For most of his life he was a potato farmer.
He played at local dances and fairs until about 1957, when he stopped playing.
Interest in the band revived in the 1970s, and they played at the National Folk Festival in 1973 and at the 1974 Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife.
They also appeared in a film," Ode to Billy Joe".
Max Baer Jr.
Maximilian Adalbert Baer Jr. (born December 4, 1937) is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director.
He is best known for playing Jethro Bodine, the dim-witted nephew of Jed Clampett (played by Buddy Ebsen) on "The Beverly Hillbillies".
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Question: What nationality is the director of film Ode To Billy Joe (Film)?
Answer: American