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Salome Jens | ... |
Shirley Norton
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Philip Sterling | ... |
Mr. Miller
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Deborah Winters | ... |
Betty
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Ron Hale | ... |
Stanley Dexter
(as Ronald Hale)
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| Bob Balaban | ... | ||
| Matthew Cowles | ... |
Harvey Belman
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Ann Thomas | ... |
Mrs. Schroder
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| Al Pacino | ... | ||
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Catherine Burns | ... |
Hester
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Robbi Morgan | ... |
Natalie, Age 7
(as Robyn Morgan)
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Since she was a child, Natalie Miller has always thought she was an ugly ducking. Despite her mother's encouragement that she will grow up to be pretty, Natalie has never believed it will happen. She rents a Greenwich Village apartment from an eccentric landlady and gets a job at the Topless Bottom Club. She rides a motorcycle to work, decorates her loft with a moose head, and rides up and down a dumbwaiter to get to her apartment. There Natalie meets David an artist, and the two have a love affair before she discovers he is married. Written by alfiehitchie
I remember going into Center City Philadelphia with a friend and walking along Chestnut Street right past a line of hippies waiting to get into Easy Rider. Of course, we went to see Patty Duke as we were fans of her TV show. I enjoyed the That Girl mixed with pathos. Yes, it was a tad preachy but the golden girl attracting trouble, a little schadenfreude on Patty's part? But, all too soon, Patty became involved with the wrong man, too. There was a lot of good in the movie for us young girls to see. Natalie graduating from school, getting a job and her own place complete with the bed cut of a bathtub seemed preferable to doing the deed in a New Orleans graveyard as in Easy Rider.