The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth

90 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Jan. 1, 1981

Lily Bart, a well-born, but penniless woman of the high society of New York City, who was raised and educated to become wife to a rich man. As an unmarried woman with gambling debts and an uncertain future, Lily is destroyed by the society who created her...

The House of Mirth

90 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Jan. 1, 1981

The House of Mirth
Lily Bart, a well-born, but penniless woman of the high society of New York City, who was raised and educated to become wife to a rich man. As an unmarried woman with gambling debts and an uncertain future, Lily is destroyed by the society who created her...
Producers Public Broadcasting Service, Cinelit Inc.
Original title The House of Mirth
Directors Adrian Hall
Writers Richard Cumming, Adrian Hall, Edith Wharton

Cast

William Atherton

as Lawrence Selden

Geraldine Chaplin

as Lily Bart

Lois Smith

as Bertha Dorset

Elizabeth Franz

as Grace Stepney

Tim Crowe

as Lord Dacey

Barbara Blossom

as Mme. Regine

Barbara Damashek

as Nettie

Virginia Donaldson

as Alice Wetherall

Tim Donoghue

as Ned Silverton

Monique Fowler

as Evie Von Osburgh