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Only When I Laugh

Year:

1981

Duration:

120 min

Genres:

Comedy | Drama

IMDB rate:

6.4

Director:

Glenn Jordan

Awards:

Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 5 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1981-09-25

Filming Locations: Warner Hollywood Studios - 7200 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, California, USA

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $3,880,870 (USA) (27 September 1981)

Gross: $25,782,304 (USA) (6 December 1981)

Cast

Actor

Character

Marsha Mason

Georgia Hines

Kristy McNichol

Polly Hines

James Coco

Jimmy Perrino

Joan Hackett

Toby Landau

David Dukes

David Lowe

John Bennett Perry

Vincent Heller (Lou)

Guy Boyd

Man in Bar

Ed Moore

Dr. Bob Komack

Byron Webster

Tom

Peter Coffield

Mr. Tarloff

Mark Schubb

Adam Kasabian

Ellen La Gamba

Receptionist

Venida Evans

Nurse Garcia

Nancy Nagler

Heidi Stanton

Dan Monahan

Jason

Michael A. Ross

Paul (as Michael Ross)

Tom Ormeny

Kyle

Ken Weisbrath

Waiter

Henry Olek

George De Vane

Jane Atkins

Doreen

Kevin Bacon

Don Holcroft

Ron Levine

Gary Chandless

Rebecca Stanley

Denise Summers

Nick Lapadula

Bartender (as Nick La Padula)

Phillip Lindsay

Super

Birdie M. Hale

Super's Wife (as Birdie Hale)

Wayne Franson

Father (as Wayne Framson)

John Vargas

Manuel (as Jon Vargas)

Steve Kelley

Jeffrey Kramer (uncredited)

Llewellyn Lafford

Car Driver (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

First film as a producer for writer Neil Simon. Simon once said of this, "...to avoid any of the confrontations I've had with producers in the past over casting, I've decided to do this one myself. I didn't want anyone telling me we had to have superstar names."

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The setting of the film's source play "The Gingerbread Lady" is described in the play's intro as: "A brownstone apartment in the West Seventies. The present."

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At the time of production, actress Marsha Mason was married to Neil Simon, the film's producer, screenwriter, and source playwright. Of the movies they made together, Max Dugan Returns (1983) and this film were the only ones where Simon was a producer.

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Goofs

Jimmy is arranging a bouquet of orange flowers to welcome Georgia home from re-hab. He is shown adding a stem of eucalyptus to the bouquet and two branches of orange flowers that stick up much further than the other flower stems in the vase. When the delivery boy comes and Jimmy turns to get the money to pay for the groceries, the bouquet of orange flowers has no eucalyptus stem and the flowers are all the same height again.

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When Georgia arrives home from re-hab she waits outside her apartment door holding a full bouquet of pink roses and baby's breath wrapped in green tissue paper. The grouping of the pink roses and the baby's breath changes remarkably after she enters her apartment.

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In one of the opening scenes when Marsha Mason's character is leaving the "Betty Ford Clinic" of the time, there is an employee, Sandy, who passes her by the stairs says good-bye but addresses her as Mrs. Simon instead Mrs. Hines the character's real name.

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Quotes

Georgia: Ya hadda look gorgeous today, right?

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Georgia: What is that crap you're putting on your face?

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Georgia: Say it like it's on the Merv Griffin show dummy!

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