Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, 1974.

Director Martin Scorsese’s introduction and comments following Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, 1974.

TCM's Dave Karger introduces Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, 1974.

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Ben Mankiewicz introduces Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, 1974.

Alice (Ellen Burtsyn) brings Jacobs (Murray Moston) into a Phoenix bar in hopes of getting hired in his competing bar as a singer, her audition medley beginning with Rodgers and Hart's Where Or When, camera by Kent Wakeford, in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, 1974.

Opening flourish from director Martin Scorsese, young Alice (Mia Bendixsen) with Alice Faye's take on "You'll Never Know," then Mott The Hoople with Ian Hunter's "All The Way From Memphis," grown-up Alice (Ellen Burstyn) with son Tom (Alfred Lutter), in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, 1974.

First appearance of Jodie Foster (as "Audrey"), after school in Tucson with Tommy (Albert Lutter), who then joins mom Alice (Ellen Burstyn), at the diner where David (Kris Kristofferson) is making his first offer, in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, 1974.

Rough day at the diner, Flo (Diane Ladd) with Mel (Vic Tayback) and Vera (Valerie Curtin), David (Kris Krisotfferson) at the counter, as Alice (Ellen Burstyn) finally warms to her colleagues, in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, 1974.

Widowed Alice (Ellen Burstyn) with Rita (Lane Bradbury) who's just arrived to tell her that new boyfriend Ben (Harvey Keitel) is her husband, when he shows up, in a bad temper, in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, 1974.

At their Phoenix motel, newly-widowed Alice (Ellen Burstyn) arrives in her new job-hunting outfit, her son Tom (Alfred Lutter) acting droll, the first stage on their journey back to her home town, in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, 1974.

After her husband dies, a woman (Ellen Burstyn) pursues dreams of being a singer in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974).