This classy soap opera set in the McCarthy era was fortunate to have inspired casting with Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand – both at the peak of their box-office appeal – as mismatched lovers whose ideological differences pull them apart.
Katie Morosky (Streisand) is a loud Jewish left-wing campus radical during the 1930s. Hubbell Gardiner (Redford) is a handsome apolitical WASP athlete who is also a burgeoning novelist.
It’s an old-fashioned romance with a depressingly modern ending. Improbably they fall in love and marry, but he sells out his writing talents to Hollywood and she is willing to sacrifice everything – including her husband – for her political convictions.
Streisand captures her liberal, pre-feminist character perfectly.
Katie Morosky
Barbra Streisand Hubbell Gardiner
Robert Redford JJ
Bradford Dillman Carol Ann
Lois Chiles George Bissinger
Patrick O’Neal Paula Reisner
Viveca Lindfors Rhea Edwards
Allyn Ann McLerie Brooks Carpenter
Murray Hamilton Bill Verso
Herb Edelman Vicki Bissinger
Diana Ewing Pony Dunbar
Sally Kirkland Peggy Vanderbilt
Marcia Mae Jones
Director
Sydney Pollack
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