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THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL HAROLD AND MAUDE SITE, JUST A FAN OF THE MOVIE! ADD ME IF YOU LOVE THIS GREAT MOVIE! ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------- Harold is a depressed, death-obsessed 20-year-old man-child who spends his free time attending funerals and committing suicide in front of his mother, but he does not die. At a funeral, Harold befriends Maude, a 79-year-old woman who has a zest for life. She and Harold spend much time together during which she exposes him to the wonders and possibilities of life. After rejecting his mother's three attempts to set him up with a potential wife, and committing fake suicide in front of all of them, Harold announces that he is to be married to Maude. However, Maude has a surprise for Harold that is to change his life forever.MyGen Profile Generator Harold and Maude-'Save A Tree' Cat Stevens-If You Want To Sing Out Harold and Maude Trailer ..1
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* When considering the role of Harold, Bud Cort asked the opinion of director Robert Altman, his mentor. Robert Altman cautioned that rising star Bud Cort might find himself forever typecast.* Henry Dieckoff, who appeared as Mrs. Chasen's butler, was the actual butler of Rose Court Mansion in Hillsborough, California, south of San Francisco, which served as the setting for the Chasen mansion.* Fearing that he would be typecast as crazy (as Robert Altman had warned), Bud Cort, who was offered the part of Billy Bibbit, turned down that role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). He wanted the role of McMurphy, which belonged to Jack Nicholson but was denied it by director Milos Forman. His next film wasn't until 1977.* Colin Higgins' screenplay was based on his thesis for the UCLA screenwriting MFA program.* Director Cameo: [Hal Ashby] the bearded man seen briefly in the amusement park arcade.* Cameo: [Cat Stevens] The composer and performer of the original music for the movie can be seen in one of the funeral scenes. He is the person behind which Maude hides after she tries to get Harold's attention by hissing.* In all shots of Ruth Gordon (Maude) driving the hearse it is being towed because she never learned how to drive a car.* Maude's picture frames are empty. In Colin Higgins's book, Harold asks why she removed the photographs (the scene was not used in the movie). Maude tells him they mocked her by their images remaining sharp even as her memories were fading, implying that she is suffering from Alzheimer's or a similar form of dementia.* While watching a sunset with Harold, Maude sees a flock of seagulls and refers to Dreyfus. Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), a Jewish officer in the French army, was wrongly convicted of treason in 1894, and sentenced to life in solitary confinement on Devil's Island (a penal colony off the coast of French Guiana). He was pardoned five years later, and ultimately exonerated when the evidence against him was proved false.* The hearse Harold originally drives is a 1959 Cadillac Superior 3-way model that is one of the most sought after hearses among collectors today but at the time was considered nothing more than an undesirable used car which was purchased for a few hundred dollars. The Jaguar hearse was really destroyed at the end and no replica exists because they only constructed one version for filming. Source: IMdBQuotes From Harold and Maude
Harold: What were you fighting for? Maude: Oh, Big Issues. Liberty. Rights. Justice. Kings died, kingdoms fell. I don't regret the kingdom - what sense in borders and nations and patriotism? But I miss the kings.Maude: I should like to change into a sunflower most of all. They're so tall and simple. What flower would you like to be? Harold: I don't know. One of these, maybe. Maude: Why do you say that? Harold: Because they're all alike. Maude: Oooh, but they're *not*. Look. See, some are smaller, some are fatter, some grow to the left, some to the right, some even have lost some petals. All *kinds* of observable differences. You see, Harold, I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are *this*, [she points to a daisy] Maude: yet allow themselves be treated as *that* [she gestures to a field of daisies]Harold: I like you, Maude. Maude: I like you, Harold.Maude: A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life. *Reach* out. Take a *chance*. Get *hurt* even. But play as well as you can. Go team, go! Give me an L. Give me an I. Give me a V. Give me an E. L-I-V-E. LIVE! [beat] Maude: Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.Psychiatrist: Tell me, Harold, how many of these, eh, *suicides* have you performed? Harold: An accurate number would be difficult to gauge. Psychiatrist: Well, just give me a rough estimate. Harold: A rough estimate? I'd say fifteen. Psychiatrist: Fifteen? Harold: That's a rough estimate. Psychiatrist: Were they all done for your mother's benefit? Harold: No. No, I would not say "benefit."[seagulls fly across the sky] Maude: Dreyfus once wrote from Devil's Island that he would see the most glorious birds. Many years later in Brittany he realized they had only been seagulls... For me they will always be - *glorious* birds. Harold: You sure have a way with people. Maude: Well, they're my species!Harold: Do you... enjoy... knives?Harold: Maude. Maude: Hmm? Harold: Do you pray? Maude: Pray? No. I communicate. Harold: With God? Maude: With *life*. Maude: Vice, Virtue. It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much *life*. Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then you're bound to live life fully. Maude: Harold, *everyone* has the right to make an ass out of themselves. You just can't let the world judge you too much.Maude: You know, at one time, I used to break into pet shops to liberate the canaries. But I decided that was an idea way before its time. Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing... oh my, how the world still dearly loves a cage.Maude: Tell me, do you dance? Harold: Pardon me? Maude: Do you sing and dance? Harold: Uh, no. Maude: Uh, no. I thought not. [laughs]Harold: You hop in any car you want and just drive off? Maude: Well, not any car - I like to keep a variety. I'm always looking for the new experience. Harold: [smiling] Maybe. [sobering] Harold: Nevertheless, I think you're upsetting people. I don't know if that's right. Maude: Well, if some people get upset because they feel they have a hold on some things, I'm merely acting as a gentle reminder: here today, gone tomorrow, so don't get attached to things.Maude: [gesturing to a sick tree growing through a sidewalk] Harold, we have *got* to do something about this life. Harold: What? Maude: We'll transplant it. To the forest. Harold: You can't do that. Maude: Why not? Harold: This is public property. Maude: Well, *exactly*.Maude: *Don't* get officious. You're not yourself when you're officious - That is the curse of a government job. Maude: Grab the shovel, Harold. [last lines]Maude: Oh, Harold... That's *wonderful*. Go and love some more.Psychiatrist: That's very interesting, Harold, and I think, very illuminating. There seems to be a definite pattern emerging. And, of course, this pattern, once isolated, can be coped with. Recognize the problem, and you are halfway on the road to its, uh, its solution. Uh, tell me, Harold, what do you do for fun? What activity gives you a different sense of enjoyment from the others? Uh, what do you find fulfilling? What gives you that... special satisfaction? [pause] Harold: I go to funerals.Maude: "My body is the earth, but my head is in the stars." Who said that, Harold? Harold: I don't know. Maude: Well, I suppose I did, then.Mrs. Chasen: I have here, Harold, the forms sent out by the National Computer Dating Service. It seems to me that as you do not get along with the daughters of my friends this is the best way for you to find a prospective wife. [Harold starts to interrupt] Mrs. Chasen: Please, Harold, we have a lot to do and I have to be at the hairdresser's at three. [she looks over the papers] Mrs. Chasen: The Computer Dating Service offers you at least three dates on the initial investment. They screen out the fat and ugly so it is obviously a firm of high standards. Source: IMdBGoofs From Harold and Maude
Crew or equipment visible: When Maude pulls the banjo out of a cabinet, you see the reflection of crew and lights.Continuity: About 50 minutes into the film, when Maude is doing donuts around the officer, the driver-side window of the truck is alternately up/down between shots. Source: IMdB NEW! .. NEW! .. NEW! .. NEW! ..

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He lived for a time in France and returned to US filmmaking in 1977.
In 1979, Bud Cort was nearly killed in a car accident where he suffered a fractured skull, severe facial lacerations, the loss of several teeth, and a broken arm and leg. He survived, but due to the medical necessities of his accident, he endured years of plastic surgery and physical therapy, lost the court case for the accident, and saw his blooming career slip away from him.
Bud Cort currently lives in Southern California, where he still acts in theater, film, television, and does voice-over work.
His most recent film is The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou which is scheduled for release in December 2004. Bud Cort Biography Walter Edward Cox was born on March 29, 1948 in New Rochelle, New York, but grew up in nearby Rye. His family consisted of his father, Joseph Parker Cox, who was a bandleader and pianist, a World War II veteran, and merchant, who suffered from multiple sclerosis. His mother, Alma Mary Cox (maiden name Court), was a reporter and merchant, who also worked for MGM studios. He also has an older brother, Joseph Jr., and three younger sisters, Tracy Ann, Carol Lynn and Shelley Ann. His parents ran a clothing business in downtown Rye from the 1950s until the mid-1980s. Most of Bud's adolescence was spent caring for his father (who died in 1971) and sisters, reading and painting. As a teenager he was a local portrait painting prodigy and began taking acting lessons. He was educated in Catholic schools and graduated from Iona Preparatory School in New Rochelle in 1966.His artistic interests developed into study at New York University, where he majored in design from 1967 to 1969. Soon afterward he began moonlighting between classes, continuing with his acting lessons, doing television commercials and working as a delivery boy in the soap opera "The Doctors" (1969). Eventually he quit college and started a popular nightclub comedy act. His first on-screen film role was a walk-on part in Up the Down Staircase (1967) and his first speaking part was in Sweet Charity (1969). It was while in a comedy review called "Free Fall", at Upstairs at the Downstairs in 1969, that he was "discovered" by director Robert Altman, who cast him in MASH (1970) and later that year in Brewster McCloud (1970). Also, around this time, he made appearances in such television shows as "The Governor & J.J." (1969), "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" (1969) and "Room 222" (1969).Soon after "Brewster McCloud" came the 1971 black comedy classic Harold and Maude (1971), which launched his career. In retrospect, Bud sees this role as a "blessing and a curse" in that it helped him to get noticed, but because of it he also found himself typecast. For his work in "Harold and Maude" Bud was awarded the Crystal Star for Best Actor from the Academy of Cinema in Paris, France, as well as receiving a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor for the film. Bud, at the time, was the youngest actor ever to be given an "Hommage" by the Cinematheque Francaise - joining the ranks of Charles Chaplin, Sir Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles and Buster Keaton. Bud was presented to the French by Jacques Tati.Off and on for about seven years, he lived in the mansion of the late Groucho Marx, in Bel Air, California. "He was my idol - I was his chorus boy - he had me singing for everyone from Mae West to S.J. Perelman to Bob Dylan". In 1979 he suffered a major life and career setback when he was almost killed in a car accident on the Hollywood Freeway. Consequently, he spent years enduring plastic surgery and physical therapy, the loss of his savings because of enormous hospital bills, a losing court case regarding the accident, and the disruption of his blooming career.Over the course of his career Bud has studied acting with William Hickey, George Griffin, David Craig, Joan Darling, Stella Adler and at the HBO studios in New York. His memberships include The L.A. Classical Theatre Works (founding member), The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Cinematheque du Paris and The Directors Unit of the Actors Studio. He co-wrote and made his film directorial debut with Ted and Venus (1991) and has since immersed himself in voice-over work, radio and nightclub performances, theater, television and, primarily, independent film roles.------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------- Ruth Gordon Biography When Ruth Gordon convinced her father, a sea captain, to let her pursue acting she came to New York and studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She acted in a few silents made at Fort Lee, New Jersey, in 1915. She made her Broadway debut in "Peter Pan" as Nibs the same year. The next 20 years she spent on stage, even appearing at the Old Vic in London in the successful run of "The Country Wife" in 1936. Nearly 25 years after her film debut she returned to movies briefly. Her most memorable role during this period in the early 1940s was as Mary Todd in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940).She left Hollywood to return to theater. Back in New York, she married Garson Kanin in 1942 (her first husband Gregory Kelly, a stage actor, died in 1927). She began writing plays, and later she and her husband collaborated on screenplays for Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, whose screen relationship was modeled on their own marriage. She returned to film acting during the 1960s. It is during this last period of her career that she became a movie star, with memorable roles in Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Harold and Maude (1971). She has written several books since the mid-1970s and has appeared on TV. She won an Emmy for her role on "Taxi" (1978) in 1979. Mother Complex-Harold and Maude .. .. Harold Loves Maude-Harold and Maude .. ..
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