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The Fourposter

The Fourposter

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The story takes place entirely in a bedroom dominated by a couple's four-poster bed, taking them through fifty years of marriage, through happiness and sorrow, through good times and bad, through childbirth, parenthood, and the eventual sadness from the absence of their children. In the end, they face the future together, while remembering their past.

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English

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Release Date

01 January 1955

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Cast

Hume Cronyn

Hume Cronyn

Jessica Tandy

Jessica Tandy

Anita Cooper

Anita Cooper

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