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* UnderageCasting: Creator/ArtCarney was 55 when he played Harry, who was in his 70s.
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* UnderageCasting: Creator/ArtCarney was 55 when he played Harry, who was in his 70s. He brought this up to Mazursky, who said the way he walked due to injuries from World War II, made him seem far older.
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* PlayingGertrude: Creator/ArtCarney was 55 when he played Harry, who was in his 70s.
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* UnderageCasting: Creator/ArtCarney was 55 when he played Harry, who was in his 70s.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much one for America in the early part of TheSeventies, back when hitchhiking was still common and you'd pick up hikers on their way to join hippie communes.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Mazursky offered the role of Harry to Creator/DannyKaye, who was interested but wanted the script to have "more jokes". Mazursky didn't want to upset the comedy/drama balance in the script, so Kaye ultimately said no. Creator/JamesCagney, Creator/CaryGrant and Creator/LaurenceOlivier were also considered.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Mazursky offered the role of Harry to Creator/DannyKaye, who was interested but wanted the script to have "more jokes". Mazursky didn't want to upset the comedy/drama balance in the script, so Kaye ultimately said no. Creator/JamesCagney, Creator/CaryGrant Creator/CaryGrant, Creator/LaurenceOlivier, Creator/FrankSinatra and Creator/LaurenceOlivier Creator/JamesStewart were also considered.
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* FollowTheLeader: ''Film/AboutSchmidt'' takes the basic plot from it.
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* PlayingGertrude: Creator/ArtCarney was 55 when he played Harry, who was in his 70s.
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* PlayingGertrude: Harry's in his 70s, but Art Carney was only 55 at the time. This meant that he wasn't really old enough to be the father of the middle-aged actors who played his children.
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* RealLifeRelative: That's Mazursky's daughter Jill as the girl building the sandcastle in the last scene. She went on to be a screenwriter, collaborating with Crator/JJAbrams on some of his early work (like ''Film/GoneFishin''), and later a documentary producer.
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* RealLifeRelative: That's Mazursky's daughter Jill as the girl building the sandcastle in the last scene. She went on to be a screenwriter, collaborating with Crator/JJAbrams Creator/JJAbrams on some of his early work (like ''Film/GoneFishin''), and later a documentary producer.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Mazursky offered the role of Harry to Creator/DannyKaye, who was interested but wanted the script to have "more jokes". Mazursky didn't want to upset the comedy/drama balance in the script, so Kaye ultimately said no. Creator/JamesCagney, Creator/CaryGrant and Creator/LaurenceOlivier were also considered.considered.
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* RealLifeRelative: That's Mazursky's daughter Jill as the girl building the sandcastle in the last scene. She went on to be a screenwriter, collaborating with Crator/JJAbrams on some of his early work (like ''Film/GoneFishin''), and later a documentary producer.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Very much one for America in the early part of TheSeventies, back when hitchhiking was still common and you'd pick up hikers on their way to join hippie communes.
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* CastTheExpert: The cab driver who takes Harry to the bus station, Muriel Beerman, was an actual New York cabbie that Paul Mazursky had gotten a ride from during the film's pre-production.
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* PlayingGertrude: Harry's in his 70s, but Art Carney was only 55 at the time.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Paul Mazursky offered the role of Harry to Creator/DannyKaye, who was interested but wanted the script to have "more jokes". Mazursky didn't want to upset the comedy/drama balance in the script, so Kaye ultimately said no.
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* PlayingGertrude: Harry's in his 70s, but Art Carney was only 55 at the time.
time. This meant that he wasn't really old enough to be the father of the middle-aged actors who played his children.
* RealLifeRelative: That's Mazursky's daughter Jill as the girl building the sandcastle in the last scene.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:Paul Mazursky offered the role of Harry to Creator/DannyKaye, who was interested but wanted the script to have "more jokes". Mazursky didn't want to upset the comedy/drama balance in the script, so Kaye ultimately said no. Creator/JamesCagney, Creator/CaryGrant and Creator/LaurenceOlivier were also considered.
* RealLifeRelative: That's Mazursky's daughter Jill as the girl building the sandcastle in the last scene.
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* DawsonCasting: Melanie Mayron was 21 when she played 16-year-old Ginger.
* PlayingGertrude: Harry's in his 70s, but Art Carney was only 55 at the time.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Paul Mazursky offered the role of Harry to Creator/DannyKaye, who was interested but wanted the script to have "more jokes". Mazursky didn't want to upset the comedy/drama balance in the script, so Kaye ultimately said no.
* PlayingGertrude: Harry's in his 70s, but Art Carney was only 55 at the time.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Paul Mazursky offered the role of Harry to Creator/DannyKaye, who was interested but wanted the script to have "more jokes". Mazursky didn't want to upset the comedy/drama balance in the script, so Kaye ultimately said no.
