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    Goodbye, Columbus (1969)

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    Plain, poor and likeable library worker and former serviceman Neil Klugman (Richard Benjamin) from the Bronx meets up with well-to-do Jewish princess Brenda Patimkin (Ali MacGraw in her first feature role) – who lives in a white clapboard colonial mansion in Westchester – on the one day each summer that his nouveau riche cousin Doris (Kay Cummings) invites him to her country club outside New York City.

    Though both are Jewish, Brenda is doing her best to deny it, including getting a nose job. Her family – except her successful, hard-working dad (Jack Klugman) – are also quite eager to bury their roots.

    In addition to the crime of not having money, Neil is far too close to those Jewish roots for them, especially the family’s socially pushy matriarch (Nan Martin).

    Described at the time as “a Jewish Graduate” and filmed entirely in New York, Goodbye Columbus deals frankly with the sexual situation in which the two youngsters find themselves. Brenda is the aggressor in this case, and it is her aggressiveness and refusal to take the usual precautions that lead to the unhappy finale.

    Neil Klugman
    Richard Benjamin
    Brenda Patimkin
    Ali MacGraw
    Mr Patimkin
    Jack Klugman
    Mrs Patimkin
    Nan Martin
    Ron Patimkin
    Michael Meyers
    Julie Patimkin
    Lori Shelle
    Carlotta
    Royce Wallace
    Aunt Gladys
    Sylvie Strauss
    Doris Klugman
    Kay Cummings
    Don Farber
    Michael Nurie
    Aunt Molly
    Betty Greyson
    Uncle Leo
    Monroe Arnold
    Sarah Ehrlich
    Elaine Swain
    Uncle Max
    Rubin Schaefer
    Model
    Jackie Smith
    John McKee
    Bill Derringer
    Simp
    Mari Gorman
    Harriet
    Gail Ommerle
    Uncle Manny
    Jan Peerce
    Uncle Harry
    Rey Baumel
    Mr Scapelle
    Delos Smith

    Director
    Larry Peerce

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