Butterflies Are Free
Film
Shrugs and Hugs...in the movies and the culture since then--instead, the thing plays like a vacuum-sealed Neil Simon comedy, or geriatric version of Butterflies Are Free. Instead of Goldie Hawn acting divinely kooky, we get the gifted Evan Rachel Wood giving... In this article: Woody Allen, Whatever Works, Evan Rachel Wood, Larry David, Pragmatism, Bad faith, New Year's Eve, AIDS, and Tennessee Williams |
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Wikipedia | November 29, 2009
Edward Albert
...paths with a disturbed Civil War veteran, played by Anthony Perkins. He is best known for his work in the 1972 film Butterflies Are Free, in which he played a blind man, starring opposite Goldie Hawn. The performance earned him a Golden...
In this article: Edward Laurence Heimberger, Margo Albert, Lung cancer, Daredevil, Civil War, and Sugar
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Keir Dullea
...a third time to Susie Fuller, who had two daughters from a previous relationship. The couple had met during the London run of Butterflies Are Free. After their marriage, Dullea, Fuller and her two daughters from a previous marriage...
In this article: London, New York City, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, George School, San Francisco State, Rutgers University, and Tennessee Williams
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Blythe Danner
...television production of Dr. Cook's Garden. She was the toast of Broadway when she created the adorable ingenue in Butterflies are Free for which she won a Tony Award in 1970 (a role Goldie Hawn played in the film). In 1972, Danner portrayed...
In this article: Blythe Katharine Danner, Gwyneth Paltrow, Emmy Awards, Oral cancer, Recycling, Bruce Paltrow, Tony Award, and Jake Paltrow
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L.A. Times - Show Tracker | October 06, 2009
Wednesday's TV Highlights: 'So You Think You Can Dance' in Vegas
...p.m. TCM). Then, Goldie Hawn stars as a free spirit who moves in next door to a blind man (Edward Albert) in the 1972 romantic comedy "Butterflies Are Free" (7 p.m. TCM). Tin Men: Barry Levinson wrote and directed this comedy-drama set in...
In this article: So You Think You Can Dance, Adam Shankman, Goldie Hawn, Deborah Ann Woll, Cirque du Soleil, Mia Michaels, and Tyce Diorio
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Shakeel
...roles are the lead in Uncle Urfi and Mehboob Ahmed in Aangan Terha. He has also acted in a number of local films as well as one English film, Butterflies are free. Besides his acting, he is also famous for his philanthropic activities.
In this article: India and Karachi, Pakistan
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Milton Katselas
...Michael Shurtleff's Call Me By My Rightful Name. He was nominated for a Tony Award for the Broadway production of Leonard Gershe's Butterflies Are Free in 1969, and also directed the 1972 movie version starring Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert,...
In this article: Milton Katselas, Broadway, Leonard Gershe, Edward Albert, Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, Elizabeth Taylor, Academy Award, and Tony Award
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Jan Miner
...commercial quotes: Following her 1960 debut, Miner appeared on Broadway in The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963) and Butterflies Are Free (1972) (in each as an understudy); the 1973 revival of The Women ''; the 1976 revival of...
In this article: Jan Miner, Lenny Bruce, Broadway, Colgate-Palmolive Company, Gertrude Stein, Marian Seldes, Bethel, Connecticut, and Boston
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New York Times | November 02, 2008
Milton Katselas, Acting Teacher and Director, Dies at 75
...Story," the play that announced the arrival of the playwright Edward Albee. Nine years later, he was nominated for a Tony for directing "Butterflies Are Free," a psychedelic-era romance between a blind man (Keir Dullea) and the flower child...
In this article: Milton Katselas, Richard Burton, Elia Kazan, Elizabeth Taylor, Broadway, Hollywood, New York, and Pittsburgh
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Butterflies Are Free is a play by Leonard Gershe.
Loosely based on the life of attorney Harold Krents, the plot revolves around a Manhattan blind man whose controlling mother disapproves of his relationship with a free-spirited hippie. The title was inspired by a passage in Charles Dickens' Bleak House: "I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies."
After twelve previews, the Broadway production, directed by Milton Katselas, opened on October 21, 1969 at the Booth Theatre, where it ran for 1128 performances. The cast included Keir Dullea, Blythe Danner, and Eileen Heckart, who later in the run was replaced by Gloria Swanson. Stephen Schwartz composed the title song.
Gershe, Katselas, and Heckart reunited for the 1972 screen adaptation (set in San Francisco) with Edward Albert and Goldie Hawn. Heckart won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Albert received a Golden Globe as Most Promising Male Newcomer.
- Name:
- Butterflies Are Free
- Country of Origin:
- United States
- Release Date:
- November 02, 1972
- Directed By:
- Milton Katselas
- Produced by:
- M.J. Frankovich
- Written By:
- Leonard Gershe
- Editor:
- David Blewitt
- Starring:
- Cinematography:
- Charles B. Lang
- Music By:
- Bob Alcivar
- Distributed By:
- Columbia Pictures
- Length:
- 109mins
- Language:
- English
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