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Directed by Joan Micklin Silver

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

45m

Directed by Joan Micklin Silver • 1976 • United States
Starring Shelley Duvall, Bud Cort, Veronica Cartwright

Adapted from the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald—a literary landmark that all but defined the mores of 1920s Jazz Age youth—this PBS-produced short film stars the wonderfully idiosyncratic Shelley Duvall in one of her finest performances as Bernice, a shy young country girl who travels to the city to to visit her sophisticated flapper cousin (Veronica Cartwright) and winds up getting a crash course in the ways of modern womanhood.

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