And “Wait Till We’re Sixty-Five” was retooled as a duet by Lerner. The doctor’s “She Isn’t You” became Melinda’s “He Isn’t You” for the film. For instance, “On A Clear Day” was sung by the doctor in the play but given to Streisand as a solo to end the movie. The remaining songs were rearranged and repurposed. There were 11 songs in the Broadway show – Lerner cut four of them from the movie. The songs were recorded in one day, in afternoon and evening sessions. Streisand and Montand recorded their musical numbers for the movie at Paramount Studios in early December 1968. Who's still open? I couldn't figure out how he did it.” “The tape recorder I use to learn lines broke and within an hour he delivered a new one. “He can do anything in his quiet way,” she said about Koch. Streisand seemed in good spirits during rehearsals. In that week, we plan to shoot all the scenes she's not in.” It was difficult to plan, especially at the beginning of the picture. She's committed to go to London and Paris for the openings of Funny Girl. My friend Miss Streisand must leave for a week soon after we start shooting Jan. Times in early December 1968, “The picture is in rehearsal just now and slightly ahead of schedule. With cast in place, producer Howard Koch told the L.A. Once he was tracked down and a meeting arranged, Evans offered Nicholson ten thousand dollars for the role, and Nicholson, according to Evans, negotiated until $12,500 was agreed upon. Jack Nicholson-a casting suggestion that peaked Evans interest-was out of the country attending the Cannes Film Festival. I couldn't help but turn down everybody I had seen film on who was a contender for the part of Tad, Barbra Streisand's stepbrother in the flick. Producer Robert Evans wrote in The Kid Stays In The Picture, Elsewhere) was cast as Streisand’s finance, Warren. I told her to bark up someone else’s tree.”īy August 1968, Yves Montand, 47 years old, the French actor who starred with Marilyn Monroe in Let’s Make Love, was cast as Chabot, opposite Streisand in the film. Lerner never liked my singing, and he took out the best songs from the original Broadway show. “Lerner and Streisand stitched me up,” he explained. The late Richard Harris (Arthur in the film version of Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot) was announced in the role late-1967 into 1968, but didn’t pan out. Several male stars were considered for the role of Dr. Koch to arrange and conduct Paramount's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.” Hefti was most known for his title theme to the Batman 4, 1968 edition of The Hollywood ReporterĪnnounced: “ Neal Hefti has been signed by Howard W. PICTURED: John Cullum and Barbara Harris in the Broadway play, 1965.Īrnold Scaasi was brought on board to create modern costumes for the film Cecil Beaton would fashion Streisand's regression wardrobe. Whereas it couldn’t matter less in the play.” Then I wanted to come in on a climax where she didn’t know what was happening and it was explained later on. I wanted to make it Regency, because the world was more inviting. It was white wigs and writing with feathers which gets to be very boring. He told writer Henry Sheehan, “I felt that was what was wrong with the play. Koch made some changes transferring On A Clear Dayįrom Broadway to film: Alan Jay Lerner revised his original story Minnelli requested that the past-life sequences be changed from a Restoration to a Regency setting. ![]() ![]() Lerner had read all these books and followed the fantasy as he saw it completely. ![]() He was trying to say something, I dug into the story and that was what came out. ![]() Minnelli recalled, “It was mystical, and Lerner has been interested in that since he was a child. Then, Paramount announced in April 1967 that Vincente Minnelli would direct the screen musical. Koch hired Streisand at that time, too, before she’d even come to Hollywood to make Funny Girl. Paramount Pictures reportedly paid $750,000 for the film rights to On a Clear Day The show shifted and changed during previews and eventually opened on Broadway October 1965. They first called the show I Picked a Daisyīut after delayed scripts, Lerner chose to work with composer Burton Lane instead of Rodgers. “The subject is extrasensory perception in a contemporary New York setting,” they told the New York press. The idea came from Broadway team Alan Jay Lerner and Richard Rodgers as early as 1962. Barbra Streisand’s third film, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, was based on a 1965 Broadway show that closed June 1966 starring Barbara Harris and John Cullum.
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