Forty Carats is a 1973 American

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 film

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 directed by Milton Katselas

Milton Katselas

Milton Katselas was an American film director and famous Hollywood coach for The Beverly Hills Playhouse...

, based on the play by Jay Presson Allen

Jay Presson Allen

Jay Presson Allen was an American screenwriter, playwright, stage director, television producer and novelist. Known for her withering wit and sometimes-off-color wisecracks, she was one of the few women making a living as a screenwriter at a time when women were a rarity in the profession...

. The screenplay was written by Leonard Gershe

Leonard Gershe

Leonard Gershe was an American playwright, screenwriter, and lyricist.Born in New York City, Gershe made his Broadway debut as a lyricist for the 1950 revue Alive and Kicking. He wrote the book for Harold Rome's musical stage adaptation of Destry Rides Again in 1959, and in 1969 a play, ...

 (who significantly changed the ending) and directed by Milton Katselas

Milton Katselas

Milton Katselas was an American film director and famous Hollywood coach for The Beverly Hills Playhouse...

. The cast include Liv Ullman, Edward Albert

Edward Albert

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, Gene Kelly

Gene Kelly

Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer...

, Binnie Barnes

Binnie Barnes

Gertrude Maud "Binnie" Barnes was an English-American actress. She was born in Islington to a Jewish father and an Italian mother and was brought up Jewish, although she converted to Catholicism later in life....

, Deborah Raffin

Deborah Raffin

Deborah Iona Raffin is an American film and television actress.Raffin was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Trudy Marshall, a Brooklyn-born former movie actress, and Phillip Jordan Raffin, a restaurateur and meat/brokerage executive.She appeared in several 1970s Hollywood films...

, Nancy Walker

Nancy Walker

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, and Natalie Schafer

Natalie Schafer

Natalie Schafer was an American actress, best known as Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell on CBS's sitcom Gilligan's Island .-Early life and career:...

. Ullman was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Motion Picture Actress, Musical or Comedy, and the Writers Guild of America

Writers Guild of America

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 nominated Gershe's screenplay for Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium.

Cast

• Liv Ullmann
  Liv Ullmann
  Liv Johanne Ullmann is a Norwegian actress and film director, as well as one of the "muses" of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman...
  
   as Ann Stanley
• Edward Albert
  Edward Albert
  Edward Albert was an American film and television actor. He was also known as Edward Laurence Albert, Laurence Edward Albert and occasionally Eddie Albert, Jr.-Early life:Albert was born Edward Laurence Heimberger in Los Angeles, California, to actor Eddie...
  
   as Peter Latham
• Gene Kelly
  Gene Kelly
  Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer...
  
  as Billy Boylan
• Binnie Barnes
  Binnie Barnes
  Gertrude Maud "Binnie" Barnes was an English-American actress. She was born in Islington to a Jewish father and an Italian mother and was brought up Jewish, although she converted to Catholicism later in life....
  
   as Maud Ericson
• Deborah Raffin
  Deborah Raffin
  Deborah Iona Raffin is an American film and television actress.Raffin was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Trudy Marshall, a Brooklyn-born former movie actress, and Phillip Jordan Raffin, a restaurateur and meat/brokerage executive.She appeared in several 1970s Hollywood films...
  
   as Trina Stanley
• Billy Green Bush
  Billy Green Bush
  William Warren Bush is an American actor, sometimes credited as “Billy Greenbush”.Notable movie appearances include Five Easy Pieces , The Culpepper Cattle Company , Electra Glide in Blue , Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore , The River , The Hitcher , Critters , and Jason Goes to Hell: The Final...
  
   as J.D. Rogers
• Nancy Walker
  Nancy Walker
  Nancy Walker was an American actress and comedienne of stage, screen, and television. She was also a film and television director...
  
   as Mrs. Margolin
• Don Porter
  Don Porter
  Donald Porter was an American actor who appeared in a number of films in the 1940s, including Top Sergeant and Eagle Squadron, but is perhaps best known for his role as Russell Lawrence, the widowed father of 15-year old Frances "Gidget" Lawrence in the 1965 ABC television series...
  
   as Mr. Latham
• Rosemary Murphy
  Rosemary Murphy
  Rosemary Murphy is an American actress of stage, film, and television.Murphy was born in Munich, Germany, the daughter of American parents Mildred and Robert D. Murphy, a diplomat...
  
   as Mrs. Latham
• Natalie Schafer
  Natalie Schafer
  Natalie Schafer was an American actress, best known as Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell on CBS's sitcom Gilligan's Island .-Early life and career:...
  
   as Mrs. Adams
• Claudia Jennings
  Claudia Jennings
  Claudia Jennings was an American model and actress. Jennings was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month in November 1969 and later Playmate of the Year 1970...
  
   as Gabriella
• Sam Chew Jr. as Arthur Forbes
• Brooke Palance as Polly
• Andrea True
  Andrea True
  Andrea True was an American adult film star and singer from the disco era. In addition to her given name, she had multiple stage names, including Inger Kissin, Singe Low, Sandra Lips, Andrea Travis, and Catherine Warren, .She is best known for the disco tune "More, More, More", released in 1976,...
  
   as Extra

Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn

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, Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor

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, Joanne Woodward

Joanne Woodward

Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is an American actress, television and theatrical producer, and widow of Paul Newman...

, Doris Day

Doris Day

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, Glenda Jackson

Glenda Jackson

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, Shirley MacLaine

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, and Sophia Loren

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 were all considered for the role of Ann Stanley before the original director (William Wyler

William Wyler

William Wyler was a leading American motion picture director, producer, and screenwriter.Notable works included Ben-Hur , The Best Years of Our Lives , and Mrs. Miniver , all of which won Wyler Academy Awards for Best Director, and also won Best Picture...

) bowed out of the production.