Sunday in New York

Sunday in New York
Directed by Peter Tewksbury
Produced by Everett Freeman
Written by Norman Krasna
Based on play by Norman Krasna
Starring Jane Fonda
Rod Taylor
Cliff Robertson
Music by Peter Nero
Cinematography Leo Tover
Edited by Fredric Steinkamp
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates
  • November 13, 1963 (1963-11-13)
Running time
 105 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $2 million[1]
Box office est. $2,000,000 (US/ Canada)[1][2]

Sunday in New York, filmed in Metrocolor, is a 1963 American romantic comedy film directed by Peter Tewksbury and starring Jane Fonda, Rod Taylor and Cliff Robertson. The soundtrack score was composed and performed by Peter Nero.

Plot

Eileen Tyler (Fonda), a 22-year-old Albany Times Union music critic, is suffering from her breakup with Russ (Robert Culp) from a rich Albany family. She comes to New York City to visit her brother Adam (Robertson), who is an airline pilot. Eileen confides to her brother that she thinks she may be the only 22-year-old virgin left in the world. Adam assures her that sex is not what all men look for and insists he hasn't slept around. Of course, Adam is lying and is in hot pursuit of a tryst with his occasional girlfriend Mona. However, Adam's date with Mona has a series of job related interruptions. Meanwhile, Eileen decides to see if she can have some fun for herself in New York, and seems to find the perfect candidate in Mike (Taylor), a man she meets on the bus. But things get complicated when Russ pops in with a proposal and a mistaken assumption.

Cast

Original play

Sunday in New York
Written by Norman Krasna
Date premiered 29 November 1961
Place premiered Cort Theatre, New York
Original language English
Genre Comedy
Setting New York City. The Present

The screenplay by Norman Krasna was adapted from his play, which had been produced on Broadway by David Merrick starring Robert Redford and directed by Garson Kanin. It ran for 188 performances.[3]

Carroll Baker had at one stage been attached as star.[4]

Original cast

Production

The film was a part of a multi-picture deal between Seven Arts and MGM. Lead roles were originally offered to Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty, who turned them down.[1]

Reception

In a review of the playwright's "frank screen version" of the play, Bosley Crowther characterized the film as another in a series of films that dwelled on a subject first brought to the screen ten years earlier in The Moon Is Blue: "There once was a time when the candor of Mr. Krasna's mildly popular Broadway play about an Albany girl who struggles bravely with the problem of her virtue during a rainy afternoon in New York might have caused the Production Code people a moment or two of anxious pause. They might then have thought it a bit too racy for youthful and innocent ears";[5] on the film itself, Crowther said "the extent of the film's disconcertion and delight for a viewer will depend upon how prone one may be to a juvenile quandary and to the nimble performing of a pleasant cast. The twists of the plot are downright hackneyed—the confusions of opening the wrong doors, mistaking people and getting caught in dishabille. But the actors are all attractive, and so long as one can go along with them in their valiant attempts at pretending this is hot stuff, one may have a good time."

According to Time magazine, "Sunday in New York is another brightly salacious Hollywood comedy about the way of a man with a maid who just may. 'This motion picture,' leers an announcement flashed on the screen as a teaser, 'is dedicated to the proposition that every girl gets...sooner or later.' As usual, winking wickedness turns out to be mostly eyewash, but the plot—more to be pitied than censored—gets a buoyant lift from stars Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson and Rod Taylor. All three abandon themselves to the film version of Norman Krasna's trite Broadway farce with disarming faith, as though one more glossy, glittering package of pseudo sex might save the world."[6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Stephen Vagg, Rod Taylor: An Aussie in Hollywood, Bear Manor Media, 2010 p98
  2. ↑ "Big Rental Pictures of 1964", Variety, 6 January 1965 p 39. Please note this figure is rentals accruing to distributors not total gross.
  3. ↑ Sunday in New York original production Playbill at Playbill
  4. ↑ Looking at Hollywood: Carroll Baker Set for Broadway Hopper, Hedda. Chicago Daily Tribune (1923-1963) [Chicago, Ill] 22 May 1961: b11.
  5. ↑ Bosley Crowther (February 12, 1964). "Krasna Comedy: Sunday in New York Stars Jane Fonda". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-12-21.
  6. ↑ "Jane in Plain Wrapper". Time. February 14, 1964. Retrieved 2010-12-21.
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