3 Women

3 Women (1977)

Timing: 2:4 (124 min)

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Release date

1977-04-29

Country

United States

Production

20th Century Fox, Lion's Gate Films

Genre

Drama

Budget

$1 500 000

Revenue

$5 568

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Director

Robert Altman

Actors

Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule, Robert Fortier, Ruth Nelson, John Cromwell, Sierra Pecheur, Craig Richard Nelson, Maysie Hoy, Belita Moreno
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Scenario

Robert Altman, Patricia Resnick

Producer

Robert Altman, Scott Bushnell, Robert Eggenweiler

Operator

Charles Rosher Jr.

Composer

Gerald Busby

Artist

Audition

Editing

Dennis M. Hill
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• The first time Shelley Duvall's skirt got caught in the car door was accidental. Robert Altman (1925-2006) liked it so much that he included the episode in the film.
• The twin girls were not played by professional actresses, but by waitresses whom Robert Altman saw in a cafe in California.
• All the scenes of the film were shot consecutively in the order they appear in the film. Filming took place in a boarding house in Palm Springs, California.
• 20th Century Fox gave the green light to filming even though Robert Altman did not have a finished script, and he repeatedly expressed a desire to film without a script at all.
• Many of the actresses' lines were improvised on the spot. Moreover, Shelley Duvall herself wrote her own diary, furnished and decorated her character's apartment, and chose all the dishes.
• Director Robert Altman claimed that the film's ending was intended to be ambiguous and open to various interpretations. He himself believed that Edgar rests beneath a pile of tires in the final scene.