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Cactus Flower is a 1969 American screwball comedy film directed by Gene Saks, and starring Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman and Goldie Hawn, who won an Academy Award for her performance. The screenplay was adapted by I. A. L. Diamond from the 1965 Broadway play of the same name written by Abe Burrows, which in turn was based upon the French play ...
Cactus Flower: Directed by Gene Saks. With Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn, Jack Weston. A dentist pretends to be married to avoid commitment, but when he falls for his girlfriend and proposes, he must recruit his lovelorn nurse to pose as his wife.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Gene Saks
- 1969-12-16
Sep 1, 2008 · Classic '60s comedy introducing Goldie Hawn and starring Walter Matthau & Ingrid Bergman.A dentist pretends to be married to avoid commitment, but when he fa...
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Cactus Flower. Distraught when her middle-aged lover breaks a date with her, 21-year-old Toni Simmons (Goldie Hawn) attempts suicide. Impressed by her action, her lover, dentist Julian Winston ...
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- Gene Saks
- PG
- Walter Matthau
Cactus Flower. Walter Matthau and Goldie Hawn. The movie press agents have a theory that critics shouldn't be allowed to see a comedy in a screening room. Unless they can hear the people laughing, the theory goes, they won't know the movie's funny. I don't know if there's anything to this or not (usually not, I guess), but it was a pleasure to ...
Stephanie, a middle-aged spinster who hides any aspect of her femininity, reluctantly agrees to the ruse. Toni has more questions about her own relationship with Julian after meeting Stephanie than are answered. But in posing as Mrs. Dr. Winston, Stephanie begins to bloom much like the cactus plant on her desk.
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Cactus Flower (1969), the film version of a Broadway romantic farce, was a personal triumph for its three stars: comic veteran Walter Matthau; dramatic star Ingrid Bergman in a rare comic turn; and television star Goldie Hawn, in her film debut, holding her own with her seasoned co-stars, and winning an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress. The "cactus flower" of the title is Bergman, as Stephanie, a mousy dental assistant secretly in love with her boss, Matthau, a womanizing bachelor.
