Sweet Love, Bitter

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Sweet Love, Bitter

"It's Like It Really Is, Baby!"

1967

1h 32m

5.5(8 votes)

Drama

Music

Overview

A loose fictitious of Charlie Parker's last years and a portrait of the jazz scene in 1960's New York. A black jazz musician bent on self destruction forms an odd friendship with a white college professor full of feeling sorry for himself.

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10 featured cast members

Starring

Dick Gregory

Richie 'Eagle' Stokes

Robert Hooks

Keel Robinson

Don Murray

David Hillary

Diane Varsi

Jeri Archer

Candy

Osborne Smith

Carla Pinza

Barbara Davis

Girl in bar

Florette Carter

Bruce Glover

Creative team

Directed by: Herbert Danska
Written by: Lewis Jacobs
Herbert Danska

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