Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
File:Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon poster.jpg Original Poster by Saul Bass
Directed by	Otto Preminger
Produced by	Otto Preminger
Screenplay by	Marjorie Kellogg
Based on	Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon by Marjorie Kellogg
Starring	Liza Minnelli Ken Howard Robert Moore James Coco Kay Thompson Fred Williamson
Music by	Philip Springer
Cinematography	Boris Kaufman
Edited by	Henry Herman Dean O. Ball
Production company	Sigma Productions
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	May 11, 1970 (1970-05-11)
Running time	113 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon is a 1970 American comedy-drama film directed and produced by Otto Preminger. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Marjorie Kellogg.

Plot

The film stars Liza Minnelli as the title character Junie Moon, a girl whose face is scarred in a vicious battery acid attack by her boyfriend (Ben Piazza). Later in an institution, she meets a man with epilepsy (Ken Howard), and a gay paraplegic who uses a wheelchair (Robert Moore). Disabled, but not down, they live together in an older, rented house and bond, determined to prove themselves and to help each other.

Unlike Liza Minnelli's previous film, 1969's The Sterile Cuckoo, which was a triumph artistically and financially, as well as netting Minnelli an Oscar nomination as Best Actress, Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon was a quick and resounding failure with critics and at the box office. It was virtually forgotten. Minnelli's next film two years later, Cabaret, would not only win her the Academy Award but also establish her as a superstar.

Cast

• Liza Minnelli as Junie Moon
• Ken Howard as Arthur
• Robert Moore as Warren
• James Coco as Mario
• Kay Thompson as Miss Gregory
• Fred Williamson as Beach Boy
• Ben Piazza as Jesse
• Emily Yancy as Solana
• Leonard Frey as Guiles
• Clarice Taylor as Minnie
• James Beard as Sidney Wyner
• Julie Bovasso as Ramona
• Gina Collens as Lila
• Barbara Logan as Mother Moon
• Nancy Marchand as Nurse Oxford
• Lynn Milgrim as Nurse Holt
• Ric O'Feldman as Joebee
• James D. Pasternak as Artist
• Angelique Pettyjohn as Melissa
• Anne Revere as Miss Farber
• Elaine Shore as Mrs. Wyner
• Guy Sorel as Dr. Gaines
• Wayne Tippit as Dr. Miller

Musicians

• Pete Seeger as Himself
• Pacific Gas & Electric as Themselves

Awards

• Otto Preminger was nominated for the Golden Palm at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.

See also

• List of American films of 1970

External links

• Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon at IMDb
• Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon at AllMovie
• Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon at the TCM Movie Database
• Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon at the American Film Institute Catalog