{"id":52849,"date":"2019-04-06T15:03:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=52849"},"modified":"2019-04-06T17:46:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T21:46:14","slug":"cactus-flower-blooming-in-the-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=52849","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cactus Flower&#8221;: Blooming In the Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- JSON-LD markup generated by Google Structured Data Markup Helper. --> <script type=\"application\/ld+json\"> [ { \"@context\" : \"http:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\" : \"Article\", \"name\" : \"\u201cCactus Flower\u201d: Blooming In the Shadows\", \"author\" : { \"@type\" : \"Person\", \"name\" : \"Jim Brymer\" }, \"datePublished\" : \"2018-09-23\", \"image\" : \"http:\/\/2h3mh837ken53kitqv1co5fh83o.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Cactus_Flower.jpg\", \"articleBody\" : \"Cactus Flower<\/A> <\/EM>was a stage play before it became a movie. One of the most interesting facts I learned about it was the fact that <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?q=lauren+bacall&amp;mod=AP\\\" onclick=\\\"_gaq.push([&#39;_trackEvent&#39;, &#39;outbound-article&#39;, &#39;https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?q=lauren+bacall&amp;mod=AP&#39;, &#39;Lauren Bacall &#39;]);\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\"\\&quot;nofollow\\&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lauren Bacall <\/A>had played the part of Stefanie Dickinson on stage and,<I> <\/I>quite naturally, expected to be offered the part when it was due to be filmed.  But producer Mike Frankovich decided he wanted someone a bit younger than Bacall, who was 45 at the time.  So who does he get? <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Ingrid%20Bergman%7C235864&amp;mod=AP\\\" onclick=\\\"_gaq.push([&#39;_trackEvent&#39;, &#39;outbound-article&#39;, &#39;https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Ingrid%20Bergman%7C235864&amp;mod=AP&#39;, &#39;Ingrid Bergman&#39;]);\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\"\\&quot;nofollow\\&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ingrid Bergman<\/A>.  (Bergman was almost 10 years older than Bacall).  Needless top say Bacall wasn\u2019t pleased.  But it eventually worked out because the two eventually worked together on <I><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/murder-on-the-orient-express\/032429304278\\\" onclick=\\\"_gaq.push([&#39;_trackEvent&#39;, &#39;outbound-article&#39;, &#39;https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/murder-on-the-orient-express\/032429304278&#39;, &#39;Murder on the Orient Express&#39;]);\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\"\\&quot;noopener\\&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Murder on the Orient Express<\/A><\/I> (1974).<\/P><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>Ingrid Bergman had a career that spanned 50 years. Even in her old age she was still an attractive woman and she passed on that attractiveness to her daughter, Isabella Rosselini. She could still carry a movie, all the way up until she died. Witness her performance in her last film, the TV movie  <I>A Woman Called Golda<\/I> (about Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, for which she won an Emmy). She certainly did well in <I>Cactus Flower<\/I>, although only her co-star, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Goldie%20Hawn%7C651860&amp;mod=AP\\\" onclick=\\\"_gaq.push([&#39;_trackEvent&#39;, &#39;outbound-article&#39;, &#39;https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Goldie%20Hawn%7C651860&amp;mod=AP&#39;, &#39;Goldie Hawn&#39;]);\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\"\\&quot;noopener\\&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Goldie Hawn<\/A>, was nominated for an Oscar. But Bergman could just as well have been nominated, too.<\/P><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P><B>Cactus Flower (1969): <\/B><\/P><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>The truth about the matter is I don\u2019t understand how Toni Simmons (Goldie Hawn) can be infatuated with dentist Dr. Julian Winston (<a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Walter%20Matthau%7C675006&amp;mod=AP\\\" onclick=\\\"_gaq.push([&#39;_trackEvent&#39;, &#39;outbound-article&#39;, &#39;https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Walter%20Matthau%7C675006&amp;mod=AP&#39;, &#39;Walter Matthau&#39;]);\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\"\\&quot;noopener\\&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Walter Matthau<\/A>). He must be one hell of a charmer in bed.  Matthau plays an inveterate bachelor and ladies man who has a thing going with a girl half his age. The thing is he\u2019s told her that he is married and has three kids. Except he\u2019s not really married and there are no kids. But there is a method to his madness, such as it is. By making her believe he is married, he doesn\u2019t have to commit to a long-lasting relationship\", \"url\" : \"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=52849\", \"publisher\" : { \"@type\" : \"Organization\", \"name\" : \"MovieFanFare\" } }, { \"@context\" : \"http:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\" : \"Article\", \"name\" : \"\u201cCactus Flower\u201d: Blooming In the Shadows\", \"author\" : { \"@type\" : \"Person\", \"name\" : \"Jim Brymer\" }, \"datePublished\" : \"2018-09-23\", \"image\" : \"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wXR12hcsEf0\/W3xempY6svI\/AAAAAAAAGkw\/Mb0cT63x9wEGbK4RvTpbB8xx55gTt0xhQCLcBGAs\/s320\/cf1.jpg\", \"articleBody\" : \"Except that Toni tries to commit suicide because she\u2019s in love with the big lug but he keeps standing her up, she thinks, for his wife.  Fortunately for Toni, her neighbor Igor (<a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Rick%20Lenz%7C629979&amp;mod=AP\\\" onclick=\\\"_gaq.push([&#39;_trackEvent&#39;, &#39;outbound-article&#39;, &#39;https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Rick%20Lenz%7C629979&amp;mod=AP&#39;, &#39;Richard \u201cRich\u201d Lenz&#39;]);\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\"\\&quot;noopener\\&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Richard \u201cRich\u201d Lenz<\/A>) happens to smell the gas in her apartment and breaks in to save her. But Toni had sent a letter to the dentist telling him of her plans to commit suicide. Which his assistant, Stefanie (Ingrid Bergman) did not give him right away.  When he gets the letter he immediately cancels the rest of his appointments and rushes to her apartment\", \"url\" : \"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=52849\", \"publisher\" : { \"@type\" : \"Organization\", \"name\" : \"MovieFanFare\" } }, { \"@context\" : \"http:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\" : \"Article\", \"name\" : \"\u201cCactus Flower\u201d: Blooming In the Shadows\", \"author\" : { \"@type\" : \"Person\", \"name\" : \"Jim Brymer\" }, \"datePublished\" : \"2018-09-23\", \"image\" : \"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-en741e5eyx4\/W3xerDqo_eI\/AAAAAAAAGk0\/Dr3xo6udGswm2VVQ-ZYmL41amCfSIuDoQCLcBGAs\/s320\/cf2.jpg\", \"articleBody\" : \"Upon realizing that she is still alive and coming to the conclusion he can\u2019t keep up the charade any longer, he tells her he is going to marry her.  After he divorces his wife.  Which he doesn\u2019t have.  (He can\u2019t tell her he was never really married, could he?  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But she ends up going though with it, telling Toni that she and Julian, as man and wife, no longer love each other and that she, Stephanie, approves of Julian\u2019s plans to \u201cdivorce\u201d her.  Unfortunately, she doesn\u2019t really do a really good job of convincing Toni that it\u2019s all over between them.  Toni is convinced that Julian\u2019s \u201cwife\u201d still loves him.  (Which of course, she does\", \"url\" : \"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=52849\", \"publisher\" : { \"@type\" : \"Organization\", \"name\" : \"MovieFanFare\" } }, { \"@context\" : \"http:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\" : \"Article\", \"name\" : \"\u201cCactus Flower\u201d: Blooming In the Shadows\", \"author\" : { \"@type\" : \"Person\", \"name\" : \"Jim Brymer\" }, \"datePublished\" : \"2018-09-23\", \"image\" : \"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-TKb6a6BYP84\/W3xe-tXPRNI\/AAAAAAAAGlE\/9u1HQsuyCh8sZmIJVBazCHw3MgQaUNv0gCLcBGAs\/s320\/cf3.jpg\", \"articleBody\" : \"If you are the least bit romantic, you will feel for Stefanie.  Here is a woman who is a shy \u201ccactus flower\u201d, who has an unrequited love for a man but has too much self respect to put herself out there.  Bergman is great as the woman who goes to any lengths to please the man she loves including going against her better judgement to help him maintain a lie.  You only hope it all works out in the end.  (Which end I won\u2019t reveal, but I will tell you it is satisfying.)\", \"url\" : \"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=52849\", \"publisher\" : { \"@type\" : \"Organization\", \"name\" : \"MovieFanFare\" } } ] <\/script><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52850\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Cactus_Flower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Cactus_Flower.jpg 660w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Cactus_Flower-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cactus Flower was a stage play before it became a movie.\u00a0One of the most interesting facts I learned about it was the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?q=lauren+bacall&amp;mod=AP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lauren Bacall <\/a>had played the part of Stefanie Dickinson on stage and,<i> <\/i>quite naturally, expected to be offered the part when it was due to be filmed.\u00a0 But producer Mike Frankovich decided he wanted someone a bit younger than Bacall, who was 45 at the time.\u00a0 So who does he get? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Ingrid%20Bergman%7C235864&amp;mod=AP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ingrid Bergman<\/a>.\u00a0 (Bergman was almost 10 years older than Bacall).\u00a0 Needless top say Bacall wasn&#8217;t pleased.\u00a0 But it eventually worked out because the two eventually worked together on <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/murder-on-the-orient-express\/032429304278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Murder on the Orient Express<\/a><\/i> (1974).<\/p>\n<p>Ingrid Bergman had a career that spanned 50 years.\u00a0Even in her old age she was still an attractive woman and she passed on that attractiveness to her daughter, Isabella Rosselini.\u00a0She could still carry a movie, all the way up until she died. Witness her performance in her last film, the TV movie\u00a0 <i>A Woman Called Golda<\/i> (about Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, for which she won an Emmy).\u00a0She certainly did well in <i>Cactus Flower<\/i>, although only her co-star, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Goldie%20Hawn%7C651860&amp;mod=AP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Goldie Hawn<\/a>, was nominated for an Oscar. But Bergman could just as well have been nominated, too.<\/p>\n<p><b><em>Cactus Flower<\/em> (1969): <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The truth about the matter is I don&#8217;t understand how Toni Simmons (Goldie Hawn) can be infatuated with dentist Dr. Julian Winston (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Walter%20Matthau%7C675006&amp;mod=AP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Walter Matthau<\/a>).\u00a0He must be one hell of a charmer in bed.\u00a0 Matthau plays an inveterate bachelor and ladies man who has a thing going with a girl half his age. The thing is he&#8217;s told her that he is married and has three kids.\u00a0Except he&#8217;s not really married and there are no kids.\u00a0But there is a method to his madness, such as it is.\u00a0By making her believe he is married, he doesn&#8217;t have to commit to a long-lasting relationship.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wXR12hcsEf0\/W3xempY6svI\/AAAAAAAAGkw\/Mb0cT63x9wEGbK4RvTpbB8xx55gTt0xhQCLcBGAs\/s1600\/cf1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wXR12hcsEf0\/W3xempY6svI\/AAAAAAAAGkw\/Mb0cT63x9wEGbK4RvTpbB8xx55gTt0xhQCLcBGAs\/s320\/cf1.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"231\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"369\" data-original-width=\"510\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Except that Toni tries to commit suicide because she&#8217;s in love with the big lug but he keeps standing her up, she thinks, for his wife.\u00a0 Fortunately for Toni, her neighbor Igor (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Rick%20Lenz%7C629979&amp;mod=AP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Richard &#8220;Rich&#8221; Lenz<\/a>)\u00a0happens to smell the gas in her apartment and breaks in to save her.\u00a0But Toni had sent a letter to the dentist telling him of her plans to commit suicide.\u00a0Which his assistant, Stefanie (Ingrid Bergman) did not give him right away.\u00a0 When he gets the letter he immediately cancels the rest of his appointments and rushes to her apartment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-en741e5eyx4\/W3xerDqo_eI\/AAAAAAAAGk0\/Dr3xo6udGswm2VVQ-ZYmL41amCfSIuDoQCLcBGAs\/s1600\/cf2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-en741e5eyx4\/W3xerDqo_eI\/AAAAAAAAGk0\/Dr3xo6udGswm2VVQ-ZYmL41amCfSIuDoQCLcBGAs\/s320\/cf2.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"257\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"403\" data-original-width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Upon realizing that she is still alive and coming to the conclusion he can&#8217;t keep up the charade any longer, he tells her he is going to marry her.\u00a0 After he divorces his wife.\u00a0 Which he doesn&#8217;t have.\u00a0 (He can&#8217;t tell her he was never really married, could he?\u00a0 Then she&#8217;d know he was a liar, and that would be bad). So now the doc desperately needs someone to pretend that she is his wife so he can divorce her.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-N4Xt699CtJc\/W3xe5q3nXWI\/AAAAAAAAGk8\/2GE0ITK3zPMygjhZYhJzr5SCuk_j8jnbQCLcBGAs\/s1600\/cf4.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-N4Xt699CtJc\/W3xe5q3nXWI\/AAAAAAAAGk8\/2GE0ITK3zPMygjhZYhJzr5SCuk_j8jnbQCLcBGAs\/s320\/cf4.png\" width=\"320\" height=\"177\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"320\" data-original-width=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>His solution?\u00a0 Get his assistant to pose as his wife. But unbeknownst to him, Stefanie is secretly in love with him.\u00a0 And she has some misgivings about the whole charade.\u00a0 But she ends up going though with it, telling Toni that she and Julian, as man and wife, no longer love each other and that she, Stephanie, approves of Julian&#8217;s plans to &#8220;divorce&#8221; her.\u00a0 Unfortunately, she doesn&#8217;t really do a really good job of convincing Toni that it&#8217;s all over between them.\u00a0 Toni is convinced that Julian&#8217;s &#8220;wife&#8221; still loves him.\u00a0 (Which of course, she does).<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-TKb6a6BYP84\/W3xe-tXPRNI\/AAAAAAAAGlE\/9u1HQsuyCh8sZmIJVBazCHw3MgQaUNv0gCLcBGAs\/s1600\/cf3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-TKb6a6BYP84\/W3xe-tXPRNI\/AAAAAAAAGlE\/9u1HQsuyCh8sZmIJVBazCHw3MgQaUNv0gCLcBGAs\/s320\/cf3.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"450\" data-original-width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>If you are the least bit romantic, you will feel for Stefanie. Here is a woman who is a shy &#8220;cactus flower&#8221;, who has an unrequited love for a man but has too much self respect to put herself out there. Bergman is great as the woman who goes to any lengths to please the man she loves including going against her better judgement to help him maintain a lie.\u00a0 You only hope it all works out in the end.\u00a0 (Which end I won&#8217;t reveal, but I will tell you it is satisfying).<\/p>\n<p><em>Jim Brymer, AKA Quiggy, runs the movie blog <a href=\"http:\/\/midnitedrive-in.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">The Midnite Drive-In<\/a>, check it out for more insights on other classic films.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Cactus Flower was a stage play before it became a movie.\u00a0One of the most interesting facts I learned about it was the fact that Lauren Bacall had played the part of Stefanie Dickinson on stage and, quite naturally, expected&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9744,"featured_media":52851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5619],"tags":[6941,8410,3806,1469,1525],"coauthors":[6310],"class_list":["post-52849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-posts","tag-1960s-films","tag-cactus-flower","tag-goldie-hawn","tag-ingrid-bergman","tag-walter-matthau"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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