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Crazy Mama is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Jonathan Demme released in USA on 1 june 1975 with Cloris Leachman
Crazy Mama (1975)
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Add to a movie listCrazy Mama is a 1975 American action/comedy film directed by Jonathan Demme and produced by Julie Corman. The film stars Cloris Leachman. Dennis Quaid and Bill Paxton are also seen briefly in two of their earliest roles.
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In 1958, a Long Beach, California beauty parlor run by Melba Stokes (Leachman), her mother Sheba (Ann Sothern) and daughter Cheryl (Linda Purl), is repossessed. They flee when landlord Mr. Albertson comes to demand the back rent.Actors
Cloris Leachman
(Melba)
Stuart Whitman
(Jim Bob)
Ann Sothern
(Sheba)
Linda Purl
(Cheryl)
Jim Backus
(Mr. Albertson)
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