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#63 Box Office Hit of 1981

Ragtime (1981)

"The passion, the violence, the birth of America's Gilded Age."

Overview

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

Cast

  • James Cagney

    New York Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo

    James Cagney

  • Brad Dourif

    Younger Brother

    Brad Dourif

  • Moses Gunn

    Booker T. Washington

    Moses Gunn

  • Elizabeth McGovern

    Evelyn Nesbit

    Elizabeth McGovern

  • Kenneth McMillan

    Willie Conklin

    Kenneth McMillan

  • Pat O'Brien

    Delmas

    Pat O'Brien

  • Donald O'Connor

    Evelyn's Dance Instructor

    Donald O'Connor

  • James Olson

    Father

    James Olson

  • Mandy Patinkin

    Tateh

    Mandy Patinkin

  • Howard Rollins

    Coalhouse Walker Jr.

    Howard Rollins

  • Mary Steenburgen

    Mother

    Mary Steenburgen

  • Debbie Allen

    Sarah

    Debbie Allen

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