Of all the great screen romances, there has never been one less likely — or more touching — than that of 1971’s HaroldandMaude, which turns 50 this month
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Impressed, Lewis passed it to Paramount chief Stanley Jaffe, who bought it and attached Ashby, then 41 and coming off his first film, 1970’s. Maude was an amalgam of three women from Higgins’ life: his grandmother; a bohemian woman from his youth in Australia; and an older woman he met when he settled in America who, despite being a concentration camp survivor, always maintained a sunny outlook.
Shot in and around San Francisco for $1.2 million , the film features a soundtrack by Cat Stevens, having been recommended by Elton John, who was offered the role of Harold on the condition he write and perform the score. Stevens recorded two original songs for the film and appears briefly as a bearded man in a funeral scene. Ashby also shows up in a bearded cameo at an amusement park arcade.
The film bombed but turned into a huge cult favorite, programmed at repertory cinemas for years at a time. Higgins, who was always open about being gay, went on to write and direct such hits as 1978’s
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