The Turning Point (1977)

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PG | 1 hr 59 mins | Drama | Released: 11/14/1977

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Synopsis:

Former dance colleagues Deedee and Emma are reunited when Emma's New York ballet company stops in Oklahoma City for a performance. Having dropped her career for marriage and motherhood, Deedee envies prima ballerina Emma's limelight life; aging Emma, realizing that her days as a star are numbered, wishes that she had the fulfillment of a family like Deedee's. Tensions simmer when Deedee's talented teenage daughter Emilia moves to New York to join Emma's company. As Emma maternally bonds with Emilia, and Emilia falls in love with womanizing dancer Yuri, Deedee feels that she's losing her place even as a mother. After Emilia's triumphant debut, Deedee's and Emma's resentments boil over into an all-out catfight that ends when they realize that they can unite in happiness for Emilia's future.

Full Cast & Crew

Theatrical Release
11/14/1977

Studio	Credit
Fox Films, Ltd.	Studio
Director	Credit
Herbert Ross	Director
Cast	Credit
Shirley MacLaine	Deedee Rogers
Anne Bancroft	Emma Jacklin
Mikhail Baryshnikov	Yuri
Leslie Browne	Emilia Rogers
Tom Skerritt	Wayne Rogers
Martha Scott	Adelaide
Antoinette Sibley	Sevilla
Alexandra Danilova	Madame Kahkarova
Starr Danias	Carolyn
Marshall Thompson	Carter
James Mitchell	Michael
Scott Douglas	Freddie
Daniel Levans	Arnold
Jurgen Schneider	Peter
Anthony Zerbe	Rosie
Phillip Saunders	Ethan
Lisa Lucas	Janina
Saax Bradbury	Florence
Hilda Morales	Sandra
Donald Petrie	Barney
James Crittenden	Billy Joe
David Byrd	Conductor
Alexander Minz	Boys' Class Teacher
Dennis Nahat	Dennis
Enrique Martinez	Ballet Master
Anne Barlow	Ballet Mistress
Howard Barr	Rehearsal Pianist
Martha Johnson	Rehearsal Pianist
Lucette Aldous
Fernando Bujones
Richard Cragun
Suzanne Farrell
Marcia Haydee
Peter Martins
Clark Tippet
Marianna Tcherkassky
Martine Van Hamel
Charles Ward
Production Credits	Credit
Herbert Ross	Producer
Roger M Rothstein	Associate Producer
Nora Kaye	Executive Producer
Arthur Laurents	Producer
Production Companies	Credit
Hera International	Production Company
Distribution Companies	Credit
Fox Films, Ltd.	Domestic Theatrical Distributor
Rank Film Distributors Ltd	Foreign Theatrical Distributor
Locations
New York, New York
Writer	Credit
Arthur Laurents	Screenplay
Art Department	Credit
Marvin March	Set Decorator
Albert Brenner	Production Designer
Choreography	Credit
John Cranko	Choreographer - choreography
Marcia Haydee	Choreographer - choreography
Richard Cragun	Choreographer - choreography
Alvin Ailey	Choreographer - choreography
Leslie Browne	Choreographer - choreography
Marius Petipa	Choreographer - choreography
Fernando Bujones	Choreographer - choreography
Lucette Aldous	Choreographer - choreography
Mikhail Baryshnikov	Choreographer - choreography
Antoinette Sibley	Choreographer - choreography
George Balanchine	Choreographer - choreography
Suzanne Farrell	Choreographer - choreography
Peter Martins	Choreographer - choreography
Dennis Nahat	Choreographer - choreography
Anne Bancroft	Choreographer - choreography
Scott Douglass	Choreographer - choreography
Alexander Minz	Choreographer - choreography
Kenneth MacMillan	Choreographer - choreography
Frederick Ashton	Choreographer - choreography
Film Camera	Credit
Robert Surtees	Director of Photography
Nananne Porcher	Lighting - theatrical lighting
Music	Credit
Duke Ellington	Song
Glenn Dictorow	Music Conductor
John Lanchbery	Music
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra	Music Performer
John Lanchbery	Music - music director
Kenneth MacMillan	Music Performer
Henryk Wieniawsky	Music
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Music
Adolphe Adam	Music
Ludwig Minkus	Music
Jean Coralli	Music
Jules Perrot	Music
Carl Czerny	Music
Harald Lander	Music
Serge Prokofiev	Music
Frederic Chopin	Music
Production Management	Credit
Jack Roe	Assistant Director
Tony Bishop	Assistant Director
Peter Burrell	Assistant Director
Sound	Credit
Jerry Jost	Sound - sound recording mixer
William Hartman	Sound Editor
Theodore Soderberg	Sound - sound rerecording mixer
Richard Sperber	Sound Editor
Visual Effects	Credit
Wayne Fitzgerald	Titles
Wardrobe Hair Makeup	Credit
Charles Schram	Makeup
Albert Wolsky	Costumes

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•	Screen Veteran Anne Bancroft Dies at 73

•	Director Herbert Ross dies