Barbra Streisand for the role of Bree?! I think NOT!

You posters sure have some interesting info on the subject. I'm more curious than doubtful now (hence the deletion of "I think not" in the subject line).

As for Jane's stock at the time, her political drive had apparently just begun to manifest itself during the filming of Klute.

Taken from the same book I quoted in my first posting ... and funnily enough the very next paragraph:

>By the time the movie started shooting, Pakula found “Jane had changed considerably. She had become firmly politicized, and she came to the set with this great passion – about everything, really – and I was concerned that her mind was not going to be on the film. She was very involved in so many causes. But she has this extraordinary kind of concentration. She can … make endless phone calls … and seem to be totally uninterested in the film. But when you say, ‘We’re ready for you, Jane,’ she says, ‘All right, give me a few minutes.’ She just stands quietly for three minutes and concentrates, and then she’s totally and completely in the film, and nothing else exists. And when the scene is right … she goes right back to the phone, and that other world is total. It’s a gift good actors have; she has it to an extraordinary degree.”<

There’s more if anyone is interested:

>Klute was Fonda’s first film since her trip to India, with its intensely affecting aftermath. For the first time, her acting chores were mixed with political concerns, and it was on the set of Klute that she became known as the Mad Caller. She offered, “A year ago, for me to pick up the phone and call practically anyone except the people I was really intimate with was a trauma. I hated the telephone. I never answered the phone; Vadim always answered … Now I must make forty calls a day to people I don’t even know … asking them all for favors, for money. I sometimes think, ‘What am I dong? It’s impossible that someone has changed this much!’”<

I’m actually wondering now if this classic shot is of Fonda making one of those calls between takes on the set of Klute since it was obviously not from any scene in the film:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WV-Hm8p1rQU/SxLkloceI1I/AAAAAAAAA5c/8CNRgnsr 6a4/s1600/klute.jpg

I used to think it was purely a publicity shot - which it obviously ended up being - but I'm thinking it may have been the result of someone snapping a photo of The Mad Caller and liking it enough to have it incorporated into the film's promo material due to its call + girl theme. . I've seen the original image with the "Library" sign in the background. I think the idea of using it in the poster must have come along later.