Sunday in New York
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| Directed by | Peter Tewksbury |
| Produced by | Everett Freeman |
| Written by | Norman Krasna |
| Starring | Jane Fonda Cliff Robertson Rod Taylor |
| Music by | Peter Nero |
| Cinematography | Leo Tover |
| Editing by | Fredric Steinkamp |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | November 13, 1963 |
| Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2 million |
| Box office | $1.8 million[1] |
Sunday in New York, filmed in Metrocolor, is a 1963 American comedy film directed by Peter Tewksbury and starring Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson, and Rod Taylor. It was one of Fonda's earliest films, and she was called "the loveliest and most gifted of all our new young actresses" by Newsday.[citation needed] The soundtrack score was composed and performed by Peter Nero.
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[edit] Plot
Eileen Tyler (Fonda) is twenty-two years old and is suffering from her breakup with Russ (Robert Culp). She comes to New York City to visit her brother Adam (Robertson), who is an airline pilot. Eileen confides to her brother that she thinks she may be the only 22-year-old virgin left in the world. Adam assures her that sex is not what all men look for and insists he hasn't slept around. Of course, Adam is lying and is in hot pursuit of a tryst with his occasional girlfriend Mona. However, Adam's date with Mona has a series of job related interruptions. Meanwhile, Eileen decides to see if she can have some fun for herself in New York, and seems to find the perfect candidate in Mike (Taylor), a man she meets on the bus. But things get complicated when Russ pops in with a proposal and a mistaken assumption.
[edit] Production
The screenplay by Norman Krasna was adapted from his play which had been produced on Broadway by David Merrick starring Robert Redford and directed by Garson Kanin.[2]
Lead roles were originally offered to Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty who turned them down.[3]
[edit] Cast
- Cliff Robertson as Adam
- Jane Fonda as Eileen, Adam's sister
- Rod Taylor as Mike Mitchell
- Robert Culp as Russ Wilson
- Jo Morrow as Mona Harris
- Jim Backus as Chief Pilot Drysdale
- Peter Nero as himself
[edit] Reception
In a review of the playwright's "frank screen version" of the play, Bosley Crowther characterized the film as another in a series of films that dwelled on a subject first brought to the screen ten years earlier in The Moon Is Blue: "There once was a time when the candor of Mr. Krasna's mildly popular Broadway play about an Albany girl who struggles bravely with the problem of her virtue during a rainy afternoon in New York might have caused the Production Code people a moment or two of anxious pause. They might then have thought it a bit too racy for youthful and innocent ears";[4] on the film itself, Crowther said "the extent of the film's disconcertion and delight for a viewer will depend upon how prone one may be to a juvenile quandary and to the nimble performing of a pleasant cast. The twists of the plot are downright hackneyed—the confusions of opening the wrong doors, mistaking people and getting caught in dishabille. But the actors are all attractive, and so long as one can go along with them in their valiant attempts at pretending this is hot stuff, one may have a good time."
According to Time magazine, "Sunday in New York is another brightly salacious Hollywood comedy about the way of a man with a maid who just may. 'This motion picture,' leers an announcement flashed on the screen as a teaser, 'is dedicated to the proposition that every girl gets . . . sooner or later.' As usual, winking wickedness turns out to be mostly eyewash, but the plot—more to be pitied than censored—gets a buoyant lift from stars Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson and Rod Taylor. All three abandon themselves to the film version of Norman Krasna's trite Broadway farce with disarming faith, as though one more glossy, glittering package of pseudo sex might save the world."[5]
[edit] References
- ^ Stephen Vagg, Rod Taylor: An Aussie in Hollywood, Bear Manor Media, 2010 p98
- ^ Listing of stage production at IBDB
- ^ Stephen Vagg, Rod Taylor: An Aussie in Hollywood, Bear Manor Media, 2010 p98
- ^ Bosley Crowther (February 12, 1964). "Krasna Comedy: Sunday in New York Stars Jane Fonda". The New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9901E5D71530E033A25751C1A9649C946591D6CF. Retrieved 2010-12-21.
- ^ "Jane in Plain Wrapper". Time. February 14, 1964. http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,870780,00.html. Retrieved 2010-12-21.
