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Waiting for the Moon is a British film of genre Drama released in USA on 15 june 1987 with Linda Bassett
Waiting for the Moon (1987)
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Add to a movie listWaiting for the Moon is a 1987 Twentieth Century Fox film about Gertrude Stein and her lover and assistant Alice B. Toklas, played by Linda Bassett and Linda Hunt. Set in the 1930s, it depicts the two women meeting Picasso and his lover Fernande Olivier (played by Bernadette Lafont), as well as the authors Ernest Hemingway (Bruce McGill), and Guillaume Apollinaire (Jacques Boudet). The film was written by Mark Magill and directed by Jill Godmilow.
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Linda Bassett
(Gertrude Stein)
Linda Hunt
(Alice B. Toklas)
Jacques Boudet
(Guillaume Apollinaire)
Andrew McCarthy
(Henry Hopper)
Bernadette Lafont
(Fernande Olivier)
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