Cast- Shelley Winters; Carol Kane; Lori Shelle; Isabella Hoopes, Lolly Boroff

Carol Kane (Tillie) was born in Cleveland, Ohio and lived in Paris as a child, learning fluent French at the Ecole du Pere Castor. Wanting to act since the age of 6, she landed her first part at 7 and at 14 was touring in the road company of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie with Tammy Grimes. She worked as an extra in New York to make ends meet while she pursued her career, and landed important parts with Joseph Papp's Public Theater and the Charles Theater Playhouse in Boston where she played the part of a floozie in Arturo Ui which starred Al Pacino. Her other stage credits include Lucy in The Enchanted at the Kennedy Center, Miranda in The Tempest and a witch in Macbeth at Lincoln Center. Eventually the film roles came, notably in Mike Nichols' Carnal Knowledge. She then worked with Shirley MacLaine in Desperate Charactors, with Donald Pleasence in Wedding in White, with Jack Nicholdson in The Last Detail, with Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon, with Elliot Gould, Michael Caine and Diane Keaton in Harry and Walter Go to New York, and with Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in Annie Hall. But it was her starring role in Joan Micklin Silver's Hester Street that won her an Oscar nomination at the age of 23. It brought her worldwide recognition, not just for unusual beauty but for the innocence and hidden depths she was able to suggest as an actress. She also co-starred with Rudolph Nureyev in Ken Russell's Valentino, with Gene Wilder in The World's Greatest Lover and with Lee Grant in Clouds.