This seems to be the chair she was sitting in near the finale, with the same gold/brown pullover. Perhaps recreated in the studio, but even her hair is the same as in that scene. How much of the film was shot in Hollywood and how much at the actual college?
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That's a terrific image-- Thanks!
The listed filming locations are Clinton, NY (the Hamilton College campus), Vernon Center, NY, and at Sylvan Beach on Lake Oneida. I think all the shooting was on-location, but I've been wrong before...
Well, according to "Liza!" by James Parish:
"Production [on "The Sterile Cuckoo"] was set to begin in September 1968, with location filming at Hamilton College and in Vernon Center, New York, preceding studio work at Paramount in Hollywood."
...probably for the driving scenes, where the proverbial blue-screen effect is not overly obvious, but is apparent.
Liza was paid $25,000 for her work.
Liza's reaction after watching the film:
"I regard Pookie as a lost memory, someone everyone can identify with. However, if I'd been more cautious, I could have made her more appealing to the audience. But I like her too much. She improvises her life, and I sympathize."
Liza was not fond of the female extras, local girls of high school and college age, recruited for the scenes filmed at Hamilton College:
"I found them almost as snobby as my old Scarsdale classmates. One was a minister's daughter who collected antiques, and another was an artist. When they finally asked about me, I told them my father was a pimp and all sorts of horrible things!"
Liza apparently did the telephone scene in one take, and only one time:
"We [Pakula and Minnelli] yakked it out in rehearsal, but I didn't know how to work it. I was scared to death--but right before I stepped in front of the camera, it hit me like a rock, and I just did it. That was my 'willy', like the first time Pookie doesn't know what to do at all."
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"I found them almost as snobby as my old Scarsdale classmates. One was a minister's daughter who collected antiques, and another was an artist. When they finally asked about me, I told them my father was a pimp and all sorts of horrible things!">>
That's funny, MoonSpinner, because in one of the other threads here, dessinrh quotes Minelli making a similar comment in a completely different context, saying she made up stories about who her father was and so forth to a group of wide-eyed extras, even using strong language to get her point across, until they began to feel understandably disgusted, then stopped and told them to act toward her in exactly the way they were now feeling once the cameras rolled. It suggested to me she wanted exactly that sense of distance not because of who the local girls happened to be, but because of who her character (Pookie Adams) was and how she wanted her to come across in a group scene.
I suspected it was that your quote was something Minelli said at the time, and dessinrh's quote came out years later, but I followed one of dessinrh's links to find the quote dessinrh used was from an MIT student newspaper review that came out right after the film did, in October 1969. So maybe Minelli really didn't like those extras, like she said.