FILM · 1967 · USA
Barefoot in the Park
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- #001
Robert Redford hated wearing a suit and tie all day as required by his character. Between takes during filming, he wore Western-style boots and a black cowboy hat.
- #002
The role of Corie Bratter was first offered to actress Natalie Wood, who had previously appeared in two films with Robert Redford. Wood turned the offer down because she wanted to take a leave of absence.
- #003
Robert Redford had effectively quit acting before making this film. Disillusioned after the relative failures of Inside Daisy Clover (1965), The Chase (1966) and This Property Is Condemned (1966), he took a break from Hollywood and spent a year traveling around Greece. Redford only returned home to take this role after Paramount threatened to sue him over certain "contractual obligations."
- #004
The lack of an elevator to reach the newlyweds' fifth-floor apartment (plus veranda) is a running joke; throughout the film, newcomers are left breathless. When the film was released in France, however, the dubbed dialogue placed the apartment on the ninth floor (equivalent to the tenth floor in the US), because old six-story buildings without elevators are not unusual in France and audiences would not have understood why climbing the stairs was so difficult.
- #005
This is the third of five films Robert Redford and Jane Fonda made together. They had previously appeared together in The Chase (1966), and both had made their feature-film debuts in Tall Story (1960). They went on to The Electric Horseman (1979), and the last was Our Souls at Night (2017).
- #006
Robert Redford was surprised when he was offered the male lead in the film. Redford had played the role on Broadway and did not like the idea of repeating himself. Redford believed it was standard practice for actors in Broadway productions not to be considered for the parts they had created on stage when the Hollywood film version was made. Redford nevertheless decided to make the film.
- #007
It was Robert Redford's first box-office hit.
- #008
Already familiar with the script and with how the characters should be played, Robert Redford worked well with Jane Fonda. If he needed redirection, he would take Gene Saks aside, raise the matter privately, and then Saks would coach him.
- #009
The park in the film's title is not Central Park but Washington Square Park.
- #010
When Jane Fonda is shown climbing the stairs to her apartment, the same set was used for every floor she ascends. As she nears the top of the stairs, all the corridor flooring (right next to the doors) shows exactly the same damage, and a wrinkle or tear in the runner of the hallway carpet appears in exactly the same spot on every level.
- #011
Robert Redford appeared in both the Broadway play and this film. The female lead on Broadway was Elizabeth Ashley.
- #012
The film's opening scenes were shot at the Plaza Hotel in New York, which also serves as the central setting of another Neil Simon film, Plaza Suite (1971).
- #013
The apartment's fictional address is 49 West 10th Street.
- #014
It contains Mildred Natwick's only Oscar®-nominated performance.
- #015
It was among the 500 films on the American Film Institute's 2000 list of nominees for the 100 Funniest American Films.
- #016
After Natalie Wood, Robert Redford's former co-star, turned down the role of Corie, the press reported that actresses Sandra Dee, Geraldine Chaplin, Yvette Mimieux, Tuesday Weld, Sue Lyon and Nancy Sinatra were considered for the part, which Jane Fonda ultimately played.
- #017
Marlo Thomas, who had appeared in the London stage production, campaigned for the film's female lead but was unsuccessful.
- #018
The telephone installed by the well-known character actor Herb Edelman was (at the time) the very fashionable avocado green.
- #019
It was among the 400 films on the American Film Institute's 1998 list of nominees for the 100 Greatest American Films.
- #020
Paul Bratter (Robert Redford) says their room at The Plaza Hotel costs 30 dollars a day. In 1967, when the film was made, that was 292 dollars a day in 2026 money. They stayed there six days, which comes to 1,752 dollars in today's money. Today a standard King room at The Plaza costs 1,455 USD per night.
- #021
It was included on the American Film Institute's 2002 list of the 100 greatest American love stories.
- #022
After the group rides the Staten Island Ferry, they park their car at an Albanian restaurant, clearly implying that they brought the car onto the ferry. This is no longer possible, since the Staten Island Ferry stopped carrying vehicles after September 11.
- #023
Jane Fonda and Robert Redford's characters spend six days at the hotel during their honeymoon. According to the maid (Doris Roberts), the hotel's record is nine days.
- #024
When Robert Redford's character leaves the hotel room for work after the six-day honeymoon, Jane Fonda's character says goodbye by acting like a prostitute as she gets into the elevator, shocking the other passengers and upsetting Redford. In "Klute" (1971), Jane Fonda plays a high-priced call girl.
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