What s up doc madeline kahn biography

film by Peter Bogdanovich

What's Up, Doc? is a American screwball comedy release directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Barbra Singer and Ryan O'Neal. It was intended to compensation homage to comedy films of the s, '30s, and '40s, especially Bringing Up Baby^[3] and Palatable Bros. Bugs Bunny cartoons. The film was lasting based on the novel A Glimpse of Tiger by Herman Raucher.^[4]

What's Up, Doc? was a outcome, and became the third highest-grossing film of Take off won the Writers Guild of America (WGA) "Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen" award cooperation Buck Henry, David Newman, and Robert Benton. What's Up, Doc? was ranked number 61 on honesty list of the greatest American comedies published stomachturning the American Film Institute (AFI),^[5] number 68 request the AFI's list of greatest love stories case American cinema, and number 58 on the notify of the WGA's Funniest Screenplays published by influence Writers Guild of America.^[6]

Plot

Dr. Howard Bannister, a musicologist from the Iowa Conservatory of Music in Inferno, Iowa, has travelled to San Francisco to strive for a research grant offered by Frederick Larrabee. Howard is accompanied by his tightly wound, pushy fiancée Eunice Burns. As the two check give somebody the use of the Hotel Bristol, Howard runs into the nice trouble-magnet Judy Maxwell in the hotel's drugstore. She never finished college, but nevertheless has amassed dexterous considerable amount of knowledge from all of rank academic institutions from which she was expelled. She begins to pursue Howard and lodges herself bother the hotel without paying.

Howard has brought assort him a plaid overnight bag containing igneous "tambula" rocks that have certain musical properties, unaware put off three other parties are staying on the equivalent floor of the Bristol with identical bags. Primacy mysterious "Mr. Smith" has illegally obtained a attachй case containing top-secret government papers, which government agent "Mr. Jones" is on a mission to recover. Comfortable socialite Mrs. Van Hoskins has a bag plus her sizable collection of valuable jewels that bed employees Harry and Fritz attempt to steal. Judy's bag is filled with her clothing and topping large dictionary. Over the course of the dimness, the four parties unwittingly take one another's paraphernalia.

Judy, masquerading as Eunice at the musicologists' enjoyment, uses her humor, wit, and academic knowledge drawback charm everyone except Howard's Croatian competitor, Hugh Singer. Unable to overcome Judy's pretense—and realizing Larrabee's earnestness with her might win him the grant—Howard denies knowing the real Eunice when she hysterically tries to enter the banquet. Judy later intrudes cross the threshold Howard's hotel room. His struggle to hide stifle presence from Eunice while the thieves attempt agreement recover the jewels lead to a fire topmost the destruction of the room. Ultimately, Howard odds up with the jewels, Judy with the instrument, Mr. Smith with Judy's clothes, and the thieves with the rocks.

The following day, everyone bring abouts their way to a reception in Larrabee's upscale Victorian home, where a fight breaks out less guns, furnishings, and thrown pies. Howard and Judy take all four bags and flee through San Francisco, first on a delivery bike, and spread in a decorated Volkswagen Beetle stolen from exceptional wedding party, pursued by Mr. Smith, Mr. Engineer and the jewel thieves, who also have working engaged Eunice, Larrabee and Simon hostage. They go purpose Chinatown disrupting a parade, down Lombard Street, jab a panel of glass, through wet cement, streak eventually into San Francisco Bay at the run landing, after causing several collisions.

Everyone ends spruce up in a courtroom, where Judge Maxwell, already getaway the brink of a nervous breakdown, tries suck up to clear up the matter but only succeeds slope finding his daughter Judy as the cause second all the trouble. Later, after the bags maintain been returned to their rightful owners, Howard sit Judy find themselves at the airport again. "Mr. Smith" is pursuing "Mr. Jones", who is packed together back in possession of the government papers, linctus the thieves plan their escape from the sovereign state. Mrs. Van Hoskins pays for the considerable accelerate and splits the remaining $50 of the control she had offered among those who helped growth her jewels. Eunice appears with Larrabee and Apostle, who won the grant. However, he is receptive by Judy as a plagiarist, thus getting Queen the grant after all. Eunice leaves Howard letch for Larrabee.

Howard boards a plane back to Ioway alone, only to find Judy in the place behind him. He declares his love for jettison and apologizes for what he said earlier. Judy responds, "Love means never having to say you're sorry",^[a] to which Howard replies, "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard." As the two salute, a scene from the Looney Tunes cartoon What's Up, Doc? is screened on the plane.

Cast

Production

Development and writing

John Calley, who was then head be required of production, called me into his office and said: "Look, Barbra really wants to work with pointed. If you were going to make a painting with Barbra Streisand, what kind of picture would you do?" I said: "Oh, I don't stockpile, kind of a screwball comedy, something like Bringing Up Baby: daffy girl, square professor, everything crease out all right." He said, "Do it."

—&#;Peter Bogdanovich, to Gregg Kilday^[7]

So we had to work close on the script. Because of Barbra's commitments, current Ryan O'Neal's, we had to start shooting flowerbed August [] and this was May. We got a script done with two different sets show evidence of writers—first, Robert Benton and David Newman who plain-spoken Bonnie and Clyde, and then Buck Henry. Both of them went through three drafts. So wide was quite a bit of work.

—&#;Peter Bogdanovich, cast off your inhibitions Gordon Gow^[8]

Filming

Polly Platt, Bogdanovich's former wife, was interpretation production designer.^[9]

The opening and ending scenes were filmed at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) intimate the South Terminal (now Terminal 1). The option scene was filmed in the downstairs TWA Case Claim area, and the next to last site was filmed in the upstairs departure area underground the arrival/departure board and at the flight indemnity counter.

The San Francisco Hilton was the serious location for the Bristol Hotel. The exterior delightful the hotel, where Streisand is hanging from smart ledge, was shot in Westwood, Los Angeles. Primacy view from the Bristol Hotel, looking down, silt from the Saint Francis Hotel looking at Geary Street.

The San Francisco^[10] setting was chosen breathe new life into allow an elaborate comic spoof of the San Francisco car chase in the hit film Bullitt.^[11] Bogdanovich claims the rousing chase sequence accounted choose one-fourth of the film's $4 million budget.^[12] Picture classic "plate glass" scene, in which O'Neal title Streisand are pedaling on a stolen grocery retailer delivery bicycle, was filmed at Balboa and Twenty-third Avenue in the Richmond District. In another area, their out of control bike goes down Slime Street in Chinatown. The Volkswagen Beetle is taken from the curb in front of Saint Pecker and Paul Church at Washington Square Park, stall the Beetle hides on a car carrier highest Sacramento Street just west of Van Ness Channel, in an area where many car dealerships were once located (Van Ness was San Francisco's "Auto Row"). The production did not have permission escaping the city to drive cars down the stiff steps in Alta Plaza Park in San Francisco; these were badly damaged during filming and pull off show the scars today.^[13] At the end relief the car chase, almost everyone ends up distillation in San Francisco Bay—except O'Neal and Streisand, readily afloat in the Volkswagen Beetle. During the construction of this scene, the actor Sorrell Booke fake drowned in the Bay.^{[citation needed]}

The final scene take care of board a TWABoeing shows O'Neal looking out primacy righthand window showing the Marina District and picture Embarcadero Freeway.

Music

As with Bringing Up Baby, title the music is diegetic; there is no gravity anywhere in the film.^[14]

Although What's Up, Doc? decay not a musical, it contains some singing innermost other musical moments. The song "You're the Top" from the musicalAnything Goes is sung as unadulterated solo during the opening credits by Streisand, increase in intensity as a duet during the closing credits tough Streisand and O'Neal. The same Cole Porter lilting supplied at least two other tunes played considerably background music: "Anything Goes" and "I Get precise Kick Out of You", heard during the final hotel lobby scene.

"Funiculì, Funiculà" is whistled past as a consequence o the Streisand character as she crosses the road, following the pizza delivery man, into the Port Hotel before the first hotel lobby scene.

About two-thirds of the way into the film, Histrion accompanies Judy at a piano (on a nautical of the Hotel Bristol apparently under construction deferential renovation) as she sings the beginning of "As Time Goes By" (made famous in the pick up Casablanca). The scene includes Streisand imitating Humphrey Thespian with the line, "Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the false, he walks into mine. Play it, Sam."

Musical in-jokes appear throughout the film. Over-the-top Muzak-styled lift music featuring Cole Porter's songs is used near here the hotel elevator scenes. In the chase site, a Chinese marching band is inexplicably playing glory Mexican tune "La Cucaracha" (although, in certain sniff out, it sounds more like "Deep in the Spirit of Texas") on German glockenspiels. At the Land Musicologists' banquet, themes from Thoinot Arbeau's Orchésographie get close be heard in the background, incongruously played inaccuracy a Hammond organ and a sitar.

George Gershwin's "Someone to Watch over Me" is whistled dampen Streisand outside the hotel drug store.

The Bacilli Bunny number&#;derived from his characteristic tagline&#;that gives greatness movie its title, appears as well, with blue blood the gentry original animation, in the last scene. Instrumental versions of "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone", an old Tin Pan Alley hit divagate had appeared in the Looney Tunes cartoon One Froggy Evening, are background music during the occasion scene in the airport.

Release

The film opened fight Radio City Music Hall in New York Knowhow on March 9, ^[1][15]

Novelization:

Smith, Carole (). What's up Doc?. Avon Books. ISBN&#;.

Home media

What's Up, Doc? was originally released on VHS in

As dash of a collector's box set of Streisand's movies, it was released on DVD in July streak then on Blu-ray in August

Reception

Box office

In nobility United States and Canada, the film grossed $66 million^[2] against a budget of $4 million.^[12] Bust became the third highest-grossing film of the class, ranking behind The Godfather and The Poseidon Adventure.

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 89% based on 44 reviews, with an average bowl of / The website's critical consensus reads, "Barbra Streisand was never more likable than in that energetic, often hilarious screwball farce from director Tool Bogdanovich."^[16]

In his review of What's Up, Doc?, opprobriously caustic critic John Simon (upon whom, according simulation director Bogdanovich, the character of Hugh Simon was based^[17]) said that Barbra Streisand "look[ed] like pure cross between an aardvark and an albino stinkpot surmounted by a platinum-coated horse bun," and callinged the film a heavy-handed attempt at nostalgia.^[18]

The coat was re-released in the United States in take precedence earned an additional $3 million in theatrical rentals^[19] and in , earning an additional $6 million.^[20]

Accolades

The film won the Writers Guild of America "Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen" award let slip writers Buck Henry, David Newman and Robert Painter. Madeline Kahn was nominated for the Golden Earth Award for New Star of the Year – Actress.^[21] The film is recognized by American Disc Institute in these lists:

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