Klute - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Klute or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Klute

[bessie]

Body count: 4.

[jesse]

When Jane Fonda asked her father for advice on what to say for her Oscar acceptance speech, he suggested: "There's a great deal to say, but I'm not going to say it tonight."

[caroline]

Film debut of Charles Cioffi along with Shaft (1971). The films were released just two days apart, with Klute debuting on June 23, 1971, and Shaft debuting on June 25.

[tom]

Barbra Streisand turned down the role of Bree Daniels, which Jane Fonda eventually played.

[linda]

Bree's apartment was built on a sound stage at a New York film studio where Jane Fonda could spend the night. The director even had a working toilet installed in the bathroom of the set. Jane contributed to decorating the apartment by deciding Bree would be a romance reader and have a cat. Jane remembered an actress from Lee Strasberg's private class that occasionally serviced John F. Kennedy, so she decided Bree had done this as well. A signed photo of Kennedy appears on the fridge in Bree's apartment.

[frederick]

Klute was only the second film score for Michael Small, who said that Pakula took a big risk here to work with an unknown composer.

[bryan]

According to Donald Sutherland, the time the lighting took up was immense. The actors rehearsed from 7 to 9 AM, then returned to their trailers and waited until noon or 1 PM before shooting started.

[lena]

Although Fonda had planned on playing scared for the scene with the murderer (played by Charles Cioffi), when she heard the tape recording of the call girl about to be murdered and the fear in her voice, she unexpectedly started crying.

[victoria]

Bree's audition piece is from Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw.

[ava]

The first of two best actress Oscars for Jane Fonda.

[kristen]

According to her autobiography, Jane Fonda hung out with call girls and pimps for a week before beginning this film in order to prepare for her role. When none of the pimps offered to "represent" her, she became convinced she wasn't desirable enough to play a prostitute and urged the director to replace her with friend Faye Dunaway.

[frederick]

In the original script Bree's psychiatrist was male, but Fonda felt in rehearsals that the character would never open up to a man, so she requested that the part be changed to a woman. Fonda requested to shoot the scenes with the shrink at the end of shooting so she would have already fully internalized the character of Bree.

[addison]

Donald Sutherland and Charles Cioffi would later appear in Shadow Conspiracy (1997).