Goodbye, Columbus

Goodbye, Columbus (1969)

Every father's daughter is a virgin.

A Jewish man and a Jewish woman meet, and while attracted to each other, find that their worlds are very different. She is the archetypal Jewish American Princess — very emotionally involved with her parents' world and the world they have created for her, while he is much less dependent on his family. They begin an affair which brings more differences to the surface.

Date of release
1969-05-21
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (34)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director
Larry Peerce

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Goodbye, Columbus and Goodbye, Columbus
  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

Goodbye, Columbus is a 1969 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Larry Peerce from a screenplay by Arnold Schulman, based on the 1959 novella by Philip Roth. The film stars Richard Benjamin, Jack Klugman, Nan Martin, and Ali MacGraw.

Production

Arnold Schulman was approached by Stanley Jaffe to adapt the novella for scale and a percentage of the profits. The writer agreed and called making the film "altogether a perfectly wonderful experience from beginning to end... we worked together, like a play—me and [the director] Larry Peerce and the cast and Stanley."

Goodbye, Columbus was shot in Old Oaks Country Club, Westchester County, New York, the Bronx in New York City, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. The interior library scenes were filmed in Gould Memorial Library on the campus of Bronx Community College and the exterior library scenes were filmed at Yonkers Public Library in Westchester County. The film was shot on location on the campus of Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The film was the only acting role for Michael Meyers, who later became a physician. He was cast as Ron, the brother of Ali MacGraw's character, after director Larry Peerce "discovered" him at a wedding in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel. In 1976, he published a memoir about his involvement in the film and his subsequent medical career, Goodbye Columbus, Hello Medicine.

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