Film Friday: "Barefoot in the Park" (1967)
To celebrate Robert Redford's 79th birthday, wh ich was on Tuesday, this week on "Film Friday" I bring you the film that made the blue-eyed, blonde-haired "Sundance Kid" a star. Theatrical release poster Directed by Gene Saks, Barefoot in the Park (1967) tells the story of Corie (Jane Fonda) and Paul Bratter (Robert Redford), a recently married couple who move into a fifth floor apartment in Greenwich Village, after spending their entire six-day honeymoon at the Plaza Hotel. A n optimistic and free-spirited young woman , Cor ie i s determined to turn the small, cold and leaky apartment, one that everyone ha s to climb several flights of stairs to get to, into the perfect little home for the two of them. The "stuffed-shirt" Paul, however, is utterly dismayed by the inconvenience and general drabness of the place. One of their many oddball neighbors is Victor Velasco (Charles Boyer), an eccentric, self-admitted libertine who has been livin...