All the Fine Young Cannibals

All the Fine Young Cannibals is a 1960 American film directed by Michael Anderson, based on the novel by Rosamond Marshall, starring Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Susan Kohner, George Hamilton, and Pearl Bailey. Hamilton said it "combined Southern Gothic with a biopic of jazzman Chet Baker."
Plot.
The film focuses on two young people in love, Chad Bixby (Wagner) and Sarah "Salome" Davis (Wood), who are forced apart and marry others, then brought together again by chance. The film also examines, in a melodramatic style, the experience of starting off "dirt poor" and ending up "idle rich", and concludes that after the changes in lifestyle, the personalities remain the same. Wagner's character is loosely based on the jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. Pearl Bailey plays a down-on-her-luck blues singer who mothers Wagner's character, while guiding his career.
Production.
"All the Fine Young Cannibals" was the first film that Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood made together. George Hamilton says that director Vincente Minnelli shot some scenes when Michael Anderson was unavailable, including an ending for the film that was not used.
Box office.
According to MGM records, the film earned $950,000 in the US and Canada, and $860,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss of $1,108,000.
Influence.
The film's title was the inspiration for the name of the 1980s musical group Fine Young Cannibals.