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Frankly, I thought I finished the clue with my apologies for posting such a weak clue? For the record, I did not say that Goodbye, Columbus was the top grossing movie of 1969. I only said it was # 1 along with other #1 box office movies for the year 1969. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_in_film So again, my apologies for such a weak clue and I will try to do better the next time. It was kind of fun digging around a little deeper to provide something else once I had selected a movie without much of a story-line in it. I do like this thread. So next time, (I guess this time, since I'm still up) I will execute a more suitable clue to the thread. [Off the subject] Did you guys know that the Triple Crown race winner Secretariat still holds every record time for each of the triple crown races that he ran winning the Triple Crown in 1973? All three The Derby, The Preakness, and Churchill Downs racing times are still the record today 49 years later. Unbelievable horse, he was. His heart was twice as big as the normal horse and weighed 21 or 22lbs. Secretariat was listed in the 50 Greatest Athletes of the Twentieth Century.

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I'm looking at the number one box office movies from 1969 and that was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Butch-Cassidy-and-the-Sundance-Kid#tab=box-office Why are you comparing other films from 1968 (Funny Girl) and 1970 (On Her Majesty's Secret Service) with the box office movies of 1969? Is it something that I (or George) posted or said about "Goodbye, Columbus" that you are disputing because George did say he thought that it (Goodbye, Columbus) was the #1 movie of the year, which it was? However, It was only one of several other #1 movies that I posted about in my first or second post. I'm just curious.

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I could see that. They are along the same lines. Go if you got one, or I'll go when I can get to it.

It could be "Short People" but I think not.

Name of this movie was "Goodbye, Columbus". Lead actor was Richard Benjamin. So, I was wondering George, if you had seen it? The hiatus was more likely Steve's idea more than it was Ali MacGraw's. What do you think?

Maybe you need a couple more clues George. Laurie Metcalf William Baldwin Andy Garcia William Baldwin Allan Harvey Annabella Sciorra Nancy Travis Richard Gere And now I'm out of clues so I'll reveal it. "Internal Affairs" Anybody who wants to go, then, go ahead.

I just have to say I think this one was doomed from the outset. I didn't think this one through before I presented it. I thought, "This is a cool movie" and went with it. As it goes, I don't know, but probably no one has seen this. Let me recap the (revised) clues again. Just to cover them. The movie in question debuted actress Ali MacGraw. In it, playing her father was Jack Klugman, TV's Odd Couple, Oscar Madison. The aforementioned actress married Steve McQueen in 1973, but before that in 1970 she was in "Love Story" with Ryan O'neal. Then in 1973 "The Getaway" with her soon husband Steve McQueen. One of her last successful pictures was in "Convoy" starring with Kris Kristopherson. I corrected the skyrocketing career thing to having had, a sporadic and short career, when considering that Ali MacGraw was voted "The Top female box office star in the world in 1972. So I was at least in the ballpark on that one. MacGraw took a five year hiatus from her career before divorcing McQueen in 1978. Altogether, I fell short in delivering a good clue. All I really had was Ali MacGraw's debut and starring an "old couple" [that one's just for you George], and the movie paralleled "The Graduate" in some ways. Vague. Name of this movie was "Goodbye, Columbus". Lead actor was Richard Benjamin.

Maybe you need a couple more clues George. Laurie Metcalf William Baldwin Andy Garcia William Baldwin Allan Harvey Annabella Sciorra Nancy Travis Richard Gere

Laurie Metcalf William Baldwin Andy Garcia William Baldwin Allan Harvey Annabella Sciorra

Yes it was.

Laurie Metcalf William Baldwin Andy Garcia William Baldwin Allan Harvey

Yes, now what is Ali MacGraw's debut movie? I did try to clean that up I thought George, Jack Klugman's character plays a upper middle class business owner running his fabric company and he lives in this huge mansion, and his family has a membership in the local Jewish Community Center, and he spoils his three kids; his daughter goes to Radcliff, his son graduated from Ohio State, basketball star, and his youngest daughter is the most spoiled brat of them all, but she's only eight yr. so I'll give her a break. He brings his son into the business and after he graduates from college he gets married, the wedding that I've mentioned before. If you didn't get anything from the line "He eats like a bird" George, then you may have not seen it. It's funny, because I think the ACTOR looks somewhat like a bird. He's got a long droopy nose that reminds me a beak.

Laurie Metcalf William Baldwin Andy Garcia

Okay I didn't notice this post until right now. I don't think I've seen the whole thing, but I remember the sex scene with Eric Stolz the campus stud and Jennifer Jason Leigh the virgin that ended with Stolz not performing so studly. Okay I'll come up with something, but don't wait up for me.

I never said anything about them being married did I ? I only said they had fallen in love. Dustin Hoffman and Katherine Ross didn't get married in "The Graduate". A wedding does take place in the movie, and it actually is a key point when the plot takes a twist, but the wedding isn't the couple in love. Oh boy. I almost don't want to use this now I feel it will let you down. My goal, I guess, was to leave enough clues about the actress and her skyrocketing career and then flopping career (don't take my superlatives to gospel, she still had a career, but her roles were limited) and then, I thought to leave something about the quirky plot in this movie (hopefully enough) to single her out. Once you can figure her out I think you got the movie. I thought the movie has parallels with "The Graduate"; the plot characters fall in love with each other and the relationship then takes place in a college town. Both were romantic comedies. The starring ACTOR in fact, starred in one of Neil Simon movies "The Sunshine Boys". Neil Simon wrote "The Odd Couple" (sorry about that one George). Another obscure parallel here is the male LEAD ACTOR had the same character name as that of actor Jack Klugman ( TV's Oscar Madison), with the name Neil Klugman. How's that for a parallel? So let's keep going, shall we. The debuting ACTRESS continued doing romantic comedies with Hollywood hunks for a couple years doing love stories, then, after her next four movies, three out of four very successful movies, she appeared in only five more movies having a sporadic film career at best, in the next twenty years. Hope this gives someone, somewhat of a clue as to what this movie is? FYI: Jack Klugman was in "12 Angry Men".

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Actually, I steered you wrong. I wasn't thinking clearly which "Odd Couple" this was. Not Jack Lemmon. But the TV show "The Odd Couple" not Tony Randall. The other one. I will see about coming up with something else. I figured the clue about the career of the upcoming actress losing ground to her Hollywood leading man after they married would have narrowed this down a bit. This is a "Graduate-esk film with the lady falling in love and leaving home to go to college, but it doesn't end with a ride on public transportation. Another hint. The band who wrote the title track to the film were "The Association'.

I thought I was getting familiar with it but the more lines added seem to take me further away.

Yeah, terrible typo I'm sorry. Yes, Odd couple. No not it. I will save you the trouble. That's the wrong half of the Odd Couple.

Okay the lead actor playing the love interest and the girls father are an odd couple was a clue. The father keeps repeating "He eats like a bird" throughout the movie.

I know this was a pretty vague clue, okay, it was very vague. The 1969 movie bears a similar theme as 'Mrs. Robinson' without the affair, falling in love, leaving home to go to school. The lead actor playing the love interest and the girls father are an old couple. Barbara Perkins and Natalie Wood were offered the female role but declined. Anyway, I'm hoping it's now less vague. I think once you get the girl you'll get the movie. Oh, one more, one of Hollywood's leading men of the time is credited for NOT helping the female star to become a super-star after he married her.

I'm surprised. I remember that it got pretty chopped up in editing though. This movie was # 1 at the box office in the year 1969 with the likes of such films as Midnight Cowboy, True Grit, Easy Rider, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Bonnie and Clyde and Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid. A good year for movies. The film featured a female star who debuted in the movie and then went back to back with her next two movies and they were smash hits. A popular pop group sang the title song of the movie and other songs as well. It was rated R for mature language and some nudity. Susan Lucci played a small part being in a wedding scene. Jaclyn Smith debuted but was in an uncredited role..

Okay with me.