Tuesday Weld Filmography

Investigating Sex

Actors: Dermot Mulroney, Alan Cumming, Neve Campbell, Robin Tunney, Nick Nolte

Synopsis: A group of bohemian intellectuals struggle to have an intelligent discussion of perhaps the world's most emotional subject in this comedy-drama from director Alan Rudolph. Edgar (Dermot Mulroney) is an artist living in Paris during the 1920s who believes that sex is a subject of vital importance Read More

Feeling Minnesota

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Vincent D'Onofrio, Cameron Diaz, Delroy Lindo, Courtney Love

Synopsis: It's not unusual in the movies for a woman to be torn between two brothers, but she usually doesn't change her mind on her wedding day. Then again, hardly anything goes the way one might expect in this black comedy. Freddie (Cameron Diaz), a pretty but hard-as-nails stripper, dreams of some day Read More

Falling Down

Actors: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin, Tuesday Weld

Synopsis: It's just not William Foster's (Michael Douglas) day. Laid off from his defense job, Foster gets stuck in the middle of the mother of all traffic jams. Desirous of attending his daughter's birthday party at the home of his ex-wife (Barbara Hershey), Foster abandons his car and begins walking Read More

Mistress

Actors: Robert Wuhl, Martin Landau, Robert De Niro, Danny Aiello, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Successful character actor Barry Primus spent seven years trying to get financing for his feature debut as a writer-director, Mistress. In the film, a once-promising writer-director, Marvin Landisman (Robert Wuhl), who now directs instructional videos, is sitting home one night, watching his own Read More

Heartbreak Hotel

Actors: David Keith, Tuesday Weld, Charlie Schlatter, Angela Goethals, Jacque Lynn Colton

Synopsis: Johnny Wolfe (Charlie Schlatter) is an Ohio teen whose alcoholic mother Marie (Tuesday Weld) has been a huge Elvis Presley fan since the 1950s. To cheer her up on her birthday, Johnny kidnaps the king of rock & roll (David Keith) after a 1972 concert. Elvis settles in to the Wolfe's den by Read More

Circle of Violence: A Family Drama

Actors: Geraldine Fitzgerald, River Phoenix, Tuesday Weld, Peter Bonerz

Synopsis: Abuse is the key word of this made-for-TV drama. This time, it is abuse levelled against ageing parents by their own children. As the title indicates, the violence grows from mounting frustrations. Tuesday Weld stars as an emotionally tattered woman who goes off the deep end when her husband Peter Bonerz Read More

Something in Common

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Tuesday Weld

Synopsis: Something in Common is a made-for-television comedy about a middle-aged, widowed career woman (Ellen Burstyn) who discovers that her grown son is having a love affair with a woman (Tuesday Weld) her own age. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Once Upon a Time in America

Actors: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams, Tuesday Weld

Synopsis: Though some viewers might be put off by its length, graphic violence, and absence of likable characters, Sergio Leone's final film is also a cinematic masterpiece. Spanning four decades, the film tells the story of David "Noodles" Aaronson (Robert De Niro) and his Jewish pals, chronicling their Read More

Scorned and Swindled

Actors: Tuesday Weld, Peter Coyote, Keith Carradine

Synopsis: In this crime drama, an antique dealer falls and marries a seemingly successful businessman who ends up conning her out of every penny and leaving her. Unlike the many others he has conned, this plucky lady decides to stop him once and for all. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Winter of Our Discontent

Synopsis: Michael de Guzman scripted this prettified TV-movie adaptation of John Steinbeck's gloomy 1961 novel The Winter of Our Discontent. Donald Sutherland stars as Ethan Hawkley, a solid citizen loved and respected by his family and by the citizens of his town. Ethan's loyalty and ethics will be tested Read More

The Rainmaker

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Tuesday Weld

Synopsis: Tommy Lee Jones stars in this TV-movie adaption of the popular play by N. Richard Nash. Tuesday Weld stars as Lizzie Curry, a plain farm woman who seems destined to spend her life alone. When her family farm is put in jeopardy by drought, along comes Bill Starbuck (Jones), a traveling rainmaker Read More

Author! Author!

Actors: Al Pacino, Dyan Cannon, Tuesday Weld, Alan King, Bob Dishy

Synopsis: Successful playwright Al Pacino can't get any work done as long as he is pestered by his wacko wife Tuesday Weld. Making things worse are the couple's obstreperous children, many of them products of her previous marriages. Just as Pacino is completing his latest work, his wife walks out on him. Read More

Thief

Actors: James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, James Belushi, Robert Prosky

Synopsis: In Thief, James Caan plays Frank, a professional jewel thief who wants to marry Jessie (Tuesday Weld) and settle down into a normal life. In order to achieve his dream of a family, Frank--who is used to working solo--has to align himself with a crime boss named Leo (Robert Prosky), who will help Read More

Madame X

Actors: Tuesday Weld, Edward Anhalt, Jerry Stiller

Synopsis: The 1981 TV version of Madame X was the seventh filmization of the old war-horse play by Alexandre Bisson. This time around, Tuesday Weld (replacing Susan Blakely) plays the poor woman (an airline stewardess in this version) who marries "outside her class" (hubby is a Presidential candidate). She Read More

Mother and Daughter - A Loving War

Actors: Tuesday Weld, Frances Sternhagen, Kathleen Beller, Edward Winter

Synopsis: A young mother looks to her own mother for help when her child begins rebelling, similar to the way she did in the past. Harry Chapin makes a special appearance. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Serial

Actors: Martin Mull, Tuesday Weld, Sally Kellerman

Synopsis: There are no cliff-hanging moments in Serial, but there's plenty of laughs in this trenchant comedy comment on 1970s lifestyles. Martin Mull plays the father of a Marin County family that succumbs to every silly fad coming down the pike. Mull tries to distance himself from his family's idiocies Read More

Who'll Stop the Rain?

Actors: Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, Michael Moriarty, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Masur

Synopsis: Thoroughly disillusioned by the Vietnam War, John, a journalist (Michael Moriarty), turns to heroin smuggling. Acting as John's go-between is the equally burnt-out Ray (Nick Nolte), who delivers the narcotics stateside to the journalist's wife, Marge (Tuesday Weld). Soon, however, Ray and Marge Read More

A Question of Guilt

Synopsis: Loosely based on a true story this sudsy made-for-television courtroom drama tells the story of a rather hedonistic young divorcee who is accused of killing her own child. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Actors: Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, William Atherton, Richard Kiley, Richard Gere

Synopsis: Adapted from Judith Rossner's best-selling novelization of a true story, Richard Brooks's melodrama turns one woman's search for a liberated life into a cautionary tale about promiscuity. After an affair with her college professor, no-longer-good Catholic girl Theresa Dunn (Diane Keaton) follows Read More

F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood

Synopsis: This TV movie delves into the unhappy later years of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald (here played by Jason Miller). Broke and virtually written-out by the late 1930s, Fitzgerald is compelled to accept screenwriting work in Tinseltown where he is frustrated that his work is extensively rewritten and Read More

Reflections of Murder

Actors: Joan Hackett, Sam Waterston, Tuesday Weld

Synopsis: Reflections of Murder is an admitted remake of the 1955 French spinetingler Diabolique (we say "admitted" because most Diabolique rip-offs fail to credit the source). Joan Hackett is unhappily married to Sam Waterston. Tuesday Weld is Waterston's equally disenchanted mistress. Hackett and Weld Read More

Play It As It Lays

Actors: Tuesday Weld, Anthony Perkins

Synopsis: Play It As It Lays offers what is probably the harshest view of Hollywood to be given a major production up to the time of its release; it depicts a world of narcissistic egotists who will do anything to inflate their own sense of importance. Based on the novel by Joan Didion, it tells of the rise Read More

A Safe Place

Actors: Rhonda Alfaro, Sylvia Zapp, Tuesday Weld, Orson Welles, Jack Nicholson, Philip Proctor, Gwen Welles

Synopsis: A Safe Place, writer/director Henry Jaglom's feature film debut, is a time-fractured, hallucinatory fantasy, featuring Tuesday Weld as a lonely and confused woman named, at times, Susan and at other times Noah, who comments that "Tomorrow is where the past is." Too delicately ethereal to cope with Read More

I Walk the Line

Actors: Gregory Peck, Tuesday Weld, Estelle Parsons, Ralph Meeker, Lonny Chapman

Synopsis: In this collaboration between actor Gregory Peck and director John Frankenheimer, Peck plays Southern sheriff Henry Tawes, who intends to bring moonshiner Carl McCain (Ralph Meeker) to justice. Instead, Tawes falls in love with McCain's nubile daughter, Alma (Tuesday Weld), and arranges for the Read More

Pretty Poison

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Beverly Garland, John Randolph, Dick O'Neill

Synopsis: Easygoing but psychotic Dennis (Anthony Perkins) is released from jail, where he has served a sentence for his complicity in a suspicious death. Wandering through a small, working-class New England town, Dennis befriends apparently normal high school A-student Sue Ann (Tuesday Weld). He fills her Read More

Lord Love a Duck

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Tuesday Weld, Lola Albright, Martin West, Ruth Gordon

Synopsis: An intelligent, eccentric high school senior devotes his life to indulging the every whim of the beautiful girl he adores in this quirky, dark-humored comedy. Roddy McDowall plays Alan Musgrave, an odd duck who immediately falls for the school's new student, Barbara Ann Greene (Tuesday Weld). Read More

The Cincinnati Kid

Actors: Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Tuesday Weld

Synopsis: Steve McQueen stars as the Cincinnati Kid, a crackerjack New Orleans stud poker player. Tired of chicken feed, the Kid decides to challenge The Man (Edward G. Robinson), the reigning poker champ, who is in town for a private game. The Shooter (Karl Malden), another gambling pro, arranges a game Read More

I'll Take Sweden

Actors: Bob Hope, Tuesday Weld, Frankie Avalon, Dina Merrill, Jeremy Slate

Synopsis: Bob Holcomb (Bob Hope) is a widower who worries about his teenage daughter JoJo (Tuesday Weld) in this light romantic comedy. He doesn't care much for JoJo's boyfriend Kenny (Frankie Avalon) because the smooth operator has a motorcycle and some money. Bob manages to get his company to transfer him Read More

The Fugitive: Dark Corner

Synopsis: Still on the lam from the Law, Richard Kimble takes a refuge on a farm owned by the Braydon family. Attracted to the fugitive, Mattie Braydon (Tuesday Weld), a blind sculptress, shields him from the sheriff and her parents, claiming that he has agreed to model for her latest sculpture. What Kimble Read More

Soldier in the Rain

Actors: Jackie Gleason, Steve McQueen, Tuesday Weld, Tony Bill, Tom Poston

Synopsis: The unlikely duo of Steve McQueen and Jackie Gleason star in this military comedy-drama. Gleason is Master Sergeant Max Slaughter, a corpulent man perfectly content with his solitary life in the Army, where his room and board are paid for and free sodas are his for the taking. His comrade, the Read More

Opchelor Flat

Naked City: A Case Study of Two Savages

Bachelor Flat

Actors: Tuesday Weld, Richard Beymer, Terry-Thomas, Celeste Holm, Francesca Bellini

Synopsis: Another in a series of American comedies of manners, this film was written and directed by Frank Tashlin with his usual grace and elegance. Terry-Thomas plays a meek archeology professor named Bruce Patterson who is attracted to bones. His salivating female college students are attracted to him. Read More

The Private Lives of Adam and Eve

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Mamie van Doren, Fay Spain, Mel Tormé, Martin Milner

Synopsis: This parody of Genesis caused an uproar before and during its release (the final version was reworked and cut) though its routine or worse cinematic level would not encourage large audiences. The story begins with a busload of men and women with hang-ups in the romance department, all heading for Read More

Return to Peyton Place

Actors: Carol Lynley, Jeff Chandler, Eleanor Parker, Mary Astor, Tuesday Weld, Robert Sterling

Synopsis: If anything, this star-studded sequel is even sillier than the original, adding to its problems by completely recasting all the roles, combining several of them into existing characters. Carol Lynley is the heroine this time, and she leaves Peyton Place for New York to write a book about the Read More

Wild in the Country

Actors: Elvis Presley, Hope Lange, Tuesday Weld, Millie Perkins, Rafer Johnson, John Ireland

Synopsis: Rock 'n roll king Elvis Presley stars as Glenn Talbot, a country boy with a problem temper and a yen for literary greatness in this typical Presley vehicle directed by Philip Dunne. After Glenn is sent packing by his father for mixing it up one too many times with his brother, the court makes him Read More

High Time

Actors: Bing Crosby, Fabian, Tuesday Weld, Nicole Maurey, Richard Beymer, Patrick Adiarte

Synopsis: Bing Crosby plays a widowed millionaire who decides that it's "high time" he got himself a college education. Enrolling as a freshman, Crosby is forced to endure the anachronistic initiation stunts dreamed up by his fraternity buddies, and at one point is required to dress up as Scarlett O'Hara Read More

Sex Kittens Go to College

Actors: John Carradine, Jackie Coogan, Allan Drake, Martin Milner, Louis Nye, Mickey Shaughnessy, Conway Twitty, Mamie van Doren, Tuesday Weld

Synopsis: Curvaceous Mamie Van Doren plays a super-genius who finds herself in charge of a college science department. Mamie would like to be appreciated for her intellect alone, but her male students (and most of the faculty) are preoccupied by her monumental breasts. The science department is virtually Read More

Because They're Young

Actors: Dick Clark, Michael Callan, Victoria Shaw, Roberta Shore

Synopsis: This fast-paced, entertaining drama set in a high school is directed by Paul Wendkos who has a talent for turning teen-oriented movies into hits, as proven just before this release (his 1959 Gidget). The ever-young Dick Clark plays Neil, a new, dedicated history teacher who becomes involved with Read More

The Five Pennies

Actors: Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong, Harry Guardino, Tuesday Weld, Bob Crosby

Synopsis: The Five Pennies is the life story of influential jazz cornetist Red Nichols, played here by a remarkably straight-faced Danny Kaye. The somewhat romanticized screenplay chronicles Nichols' rise from obscurity, annotates the many future bandleaders who would play with Nichols' "Five Pennies," and Read More

Rally 'round the Flag, Boys!

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins, Jack Carson, Dwayne Hickman, Joseph Holland

Synopsis: Director Leo McCarey was clearly past his prime when he made this screen version of Max Shulman's comic novel Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys; still, the film was a success, no small thanks to the star power of real-life husband and wife Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. The scene is Putnam's Landing Read More

The Wrong Man

Actors: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold J. Stone, Charles Cooper

Synopsis: Director Alfred Hitchcock lets us know from the outset that The Wrong Man is a painfully true story and not one of his customary fabricated suspense yarns, through the simple expedient of walking before the camera and telling us as much (this introductory appearance replaced his planned cameo role Read More

Rock, Rock, Rock!

Actors: Tuesday Weld, Connie Francis, Teddy Randazzo, Alan Freed, Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, Chuck Berry, Johnny Burnette

Synopsis: Rock, Rock, Rock stars 13-year-old Tuesday Weld, who looks 11 if she's a day. Even so, Weld's Dori is trying to get together enough money to buy a strapless gown (she's far more self-confident than she should be at this biological stage of the game). Daddy has cut off Dori's allowance, but gee Read More