Plaza Suite

Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention and help save their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to seduce his former one-time flame Muriel. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and persuade their daughter, a bride to-be with cold feet, out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding ceremony.

Cast

Walter Matthau

as Sam Nash / Jesse Kiplinger / Roy Hubley

Maureen Stapleton

as Karen Nash

Barbara Harris

as Muriel Tate

Lee Grant

as Norma Hubley

Louise Sorel

as Miss McCormack

Dan Ferrone

as bellboy

Jose Ocasio

as room service waiter

Thomas Carey

as Borden Eisler

Jenny Sullivan

as Mimsey Hubley

Augusta Dabney

as Mrs. Eisler

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