Angel Baby

Angel Baby (1961)

THE SINNER who became a DEVIL SMASHER!!!

A woman who believes she has been chosen by God to heal people is taken in by a greedy promoter and his shrewish wife to make the rounds of the rural South.

Date of release
1961-05-14
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Drama
Director
Paul Wendkos, Hubert Cornfield

Casting

Interesting facts

Angel Baby is a 1961 American drama film directed by Paul Wendkos and starring Salome Jens, George Hamilton and Mercedes McCambridge. It was Burt Reynolds's film debut.

Production

The film is based on the 1954 novel, Jenny Angel. Film rights were bought by plastic surgeon, Dr. Robert Franklyn, for his wife, Vanessa Brown. After they got divorced, Franklyn sold the rights to the book to T. F. Woods of Madera Productions.

The film was originally developed with Columbia Pictures, but was sold to Allied Artists.

After appearing in Where the Boys Are, George Hamilton was determined to make "better, more serious movies", partly to impress the family of his girlfriend, Susan Kohner. He had to be loaned out from TD Productions, who had contracted the actor to make Crime and Punishment USA.

Filming began in April 1960, under the direction of Hubert Cornfield. Shortly into filming in Coral Gables, Florida, Cornfield fell ill with appendicitis, and Paul Wendkos replaced him. According to Wendkos, only "about two seconds" of footage shot by Cornfield remains in the final film.

Wendkos said, "I came down and found the company in utter chaos. Everybody was thoroughly demoralized, and I had to come in and pick up all the loose pieces, and performed an act of therapy more or less. I had a very strong approach to the material which made it all very simple, but allowed everyone to get a common grasp on the material.

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