Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
Original Poster by Saul Bass
Directed by	Otto Preminger
Produced by	Otto Preminger
Screenplay by	Marjorie Kellogg
Based on	Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon by Marjorie Kellogg
Starring	Liza Minnelli Ken Howard Robert Moore James Coco Kay Thompson Fred Williamson
Music by	Philip Springer
Cinematography	Boris Kaufman
Edited by	Henry Herman Dean O. Ball
Production company	Sigma Productions
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	May 11, 1970 (1970-05-11)
Running time	113 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon is a 1970 American comedy-drama film directed and produced by Otto Preminger.^[1] The film is based on the novel of the same name by Marjorie Kellogg.

Plot

The film stars Liza Minnelli as the title character Junie Moon, a girl whose face is scarred in a vicious battery acid attack by her boyfriend (Ben Piazza). Later in an institution, she meets a man with epilepsy (Ken Howard), and a gay paraplegic who uses a wheelchair (Robert Moore). Disabled, but not down, they live together in an older, rented house and bond, determined to prove themselves and to help each other.^[2]

Unlike Liza Minnelli's previous film, 1969's The Sterile Cuckoo, which was a triumph artistically and financially, as well as netting Minnelli an Oscar nomination as Best Actress, Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon was a quick and resounding failure with critics and at the box office. It was virtually forgotten. Minnelli's next film two years later, Cabaret, would not only win her the Academy Award but also establish her as a superstar.

Cast

Liza Minnelli as Junie Moon
Ken Howard as Arthur
Robert Moore as Warren
James Coco as Mario
Kay Thompson as Miss Gregory
Fred Williamson as Beach Boy
Ben Piazza as Jesse
Emily Yancy as Solana
Leonard Frey as Guiles
Clarice Taylor as Minnie
James Beard as Sidney Wyner
Julie Bovasso as Ramona
Gina Collens as Lila
Barbara Logan as Mother Moon
Nancy Marchand as Nurse Oxford
Lynn Milgrim as Nurse Holt
Ric O'Feldman as Joebee
James D. Pasternak as Artist
Angelique Pettyjohn as Melissa
Anne Revere as Miss Farber
Elaine Shore as Mrs. Wyner
Guy Sorel as Dr. Gaines
Wayne Tippit as Dr. Miller

Musicians

Pete Seeger as Himself
Pacific Gas & Electric as Themselves

Awards

Otto Preminger was nominated for the Golden Palm at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.^[3]

References

↑ "Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved March 23, 2016.
↑ Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon at www.rogerebert.com
↑ "Festival de Cannes: Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-04-11.

External links

Films directed by Otto Preminger

Die große Liebe (1931)
Under Your Spell (1936)
Danger – Love at Work (1937)
Kidnapped (1938)
Margin for Error (1943)
In the Meantime, Darling (1944)
Laura (1944)
A Royal Scandal (1945)
Fallen Angel (1945)
Centennial Summer (1946)
Forever Amber (1947)
Daisy Kenyon (1947)
The Fan (1949)
Whirlpool (1949)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
The 13th Letter (1951)
Angel Face (1952)
The Moon Is Blue (1953) / Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (1954)
River of No Return (1954)
Carmen Jones (1954)
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
Saint Joan (1957)
Bonjour tristesse (1958)
Porgy and Bess (1959)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Exodus (1960)
Advise & Consent (1962)
The Cardinal (1963)
In Harm's Way (1965)
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Hurry Sundown (1967)
Skidoo (1968)
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970)
Such Good Friends (1971)
Rosebud (1975)
The Human Factor (1979)

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