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An eccentric girl forces a reluctant college student into an affair.An eccentric girl forces a reluctant college student into an affair.An eccentric girl forces a reluctant college student into an affair.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 3 wins & 7 nominations total
Chris Bugbee
- Eddie Roe
- (uncredited)
Sandy Faison
- Nancy Putnam
- (uncredited)
Austin Green
- Pookie's Father
- (uncredited)
Elizabeth Harrower
- Landlady
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaAfter winning the part of Pookie Adams, Liza Minnelli had a copy of the script sent over to her mother, Judy Garland, who read it and thought the part of this troubled, friendless girl would be an unattractive role for her daughter. Minnelli says she became defensive and argued that Pookie was a great role for any actress, but that Garland was personally concerned Minnelli identified too closely with Pookie.
- GoofsWhen they are walking by the cows he's telling her about all the stuff he read in her letters and she's wearing a short skirt with a pink blouse. Then they show them from the back in a far away shot as they walking away from the cows and their clothing has changed to the ones they were wearing when they were flying the kite.
- Quotes
'Pookie' Adams: [a little brassily, during her first tryst with Jerry] So, would you like to peel a tomato?
Jerry Payne: [confused] What?
'Pookie' Adams: [quieter, more seductively] Do you want to strip me?
- SoundtracksCome Saturday Morning
Lyric Dory Previn Music Fred Karlin
Performed by The Sandpipers
A & M Records Recording Artists
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This movie touches something in all of us that i think Lizzie minnelli brought to the service so well she deserved an Oscar nom in her first performance.Most of us at some point in our lives,often when young have clung to love,or been clung to-to tightly.The result often being the other person at some point feels as though they cant breath they feel suffocated.This creates awkward moments and much introspection as we question what does love truly mean does it mean I have to be with you and know where you are 24 hours a day.Does it mean i let go my friends because you don't seem to like them. I'm a male who gets sad every time I see this movie.All of us have felt loneliness and come across some people who are plagued by it.Lizzie Minnelli ,and Wendell Burton showed the dynamics of young love and all its bittersweet ironies.This movie reminds us of being young and breaking up with someone you at one point cared deeply for.
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- Sterilna kukavica
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- Gross US & Canada
- $13,982,357
- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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