The scene where Keenan Wynn's character is killed in a crash landing on the carrier, the footage is the actual accident of a F9F during one of its early test flights. On June 23, 1951, pilot George Duncan hit an air pocket just before landing on the USS Midway. The pocket dropped the plane but he managed to keep the nose up at the time of impact, severing the plane and expelling the plane's cockpit onto the carrier deck as a fireball erupted behind him. Except for burning his ears, Duncan survived the crash.
The Goodbye Girl - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Fan of The Goodbye Girl or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to The Goodbye Girl
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Marsha Mason, who played Paula McFadden in the original movie, also played Patricia Heaton's mother in TV show "The Middle".
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Marsha Mason, the original Paula, plays the mother of Patricia Heaton, the new Paula, on the TV show The Middle.
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This "updated" remake involved little rewriting of the original 1977 film (The Goodbye Girl (1977)). The screenplay is word-for-word and scene-for-scene from the original script with the exception of a few curse words removed to make it appropriate for television and a line that referred to Richard Dreyfuss's height in the original that wouldn't make sense when said by Jeff Daniels.
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One of three Neil Simon written films which actor-producer-director Richard Benjamin has worked on. Benjamin co-starred in The Sunshine Boys (1975) and directed The Goodbye Girl (2004) TV remake (also a producer) and the tele-movie Laughter on the 23rd Floor (2001).
The Goodbye Girl - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Goodbye Girl - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Goodbye Girl - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Goodbye Girl - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Goodbye Girl - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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