''Mixed Company'' is a 1974 American

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directed by

Melville Shavelson Melville Shavelson (April 1, 1917 – August 8, 2007) was an Americans, American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author. He was President of the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAw) from 1969 to 1971, 1979 to 1981, and 1985 to 1 ...

and written by Shavelson and Mort Lachman. It stars Barbara Harris,

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and Haywood Nelson.

Plot summary

Kathy Morrison (Harris), mother of three, who helps run a "color-blind" adoption program, wants to have another biological child. Her husband, Pete (Bologna), the head coach of the

Phoenix Suns The Phoenix Suns are an American professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. The Suns compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Pacific Division (NBA), Pacific Division of the Western Conference (NBA), We ...

, finds out he can't produce another child. Kathy thinks about adopting a boy, Frederic "Freddie" Wilcox, and Pete does not want to adopt a boy who happens to be black. When he relents, Freddie's arrival causes an upheaval in the Morrison's neighborhood, their school, and their family. Kathy's answer is to adopt another child, in this case two, a war-traumatized half-Vietnamese girl, Quan Tran, and a Hopi boy, Joe Rogers. The new extended family must now learn to live together.

Cast

* Barbara Harris as Kathy Morrison, Pete's wife *

as Pete Morrison, Kathy's husband *

as Al *

as Liz Morrison, Pete & Kathy's older daughter *

as Marge Reese *

as Miss Bergquist * Arianne Heller as Mary Morrison, Pete & Kathy's younger daughter * Stephen Honanie as Joe Rogers, Pete & Kathy's adoptive son from Hopi * Haywood Nelson as Freddie Wilcox, Pete & Kathy's adoptive son from Africa * Eric Olson as Rob Morrison, Pete & Kathy's son * Jina Tan as Quan Tran, Pete & Kathy's adoptive daughter from Vietnamese * Bob G. Anthony as Krause * Roger Price as The Doctor * Keith Hamilton as Milton * Jason Clark as Police Sergeant * Charles J. Samsill as Police Officer * Jophery Brown as Basketball Player (credited as Jophery Clifford Brown) * Rodney Hundley as Announcer * Darell T. Garretson as Referee * Calvin Brown as Santa Claus * Al McCoy as Voice of the

* Ron McIlwan as Walt Johnson

External links

* 1974 films 1974 comedy-drama films American comedy-drama films American independent films American basketball films Films about adoption Films directed by Melville Shavelson Films scored by Fred Karlin Phoenix Suns United Artists films 1970s English-language films 1970s American films English-language comedy-drama films {{1970s-comedy-drama-film-stub

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