Me, Natalie
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Fred Coe
Patty Duke
James Farentino
Martin Balsam
Elsa Lanchester
Salome Jens
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
On the night of the senior prom Natalie Miller, a homely Brooklyn adolescent, tells her parents that she must meet her date, a medical student, at the Staten Island Ferry. At the docks she surveys disembarking passengers, half hoping her imaginary escort will step ashore. Later, when supportive Uncle Harold, a retired Navy pharmacist, marries buxom Shirley Norton, Natalie's self-confidence is shattered. Although she enrolls in college, she is expelled for political activism. Desperate for their daughter's future, her parents bribe an aspirant optometrist to date Natalie. Discovering her parents' investment, Natalie buys a Honda, rents a Greenwich Village apartment operated by eccentric Miss Dennison, and gets a job as a waitress at the Topless-Bottomless Club. While riding to her flat in the dumbwaiter, Natalie attracts the attention of David Harris, an artist and architect, and they become lovers. Invited to popular Betty Simon's wedding, Natalie is delighted to discover her classmate pregnant and the unsuspecting groom abysmally ugly. Drunk with pleasure, she rushes to Harris' apartment and jumps in his bed, unexpectedly disturbing his wife. Horrified by the realization that her lover is a married man, Natalie confronts the architect. Although Harris suggests that he divorce his wife and live with Natalie, the young woman rejects such dependence and returns home.
Director
Fred Coe
Cast
Patty Duke
James Farentino
Martin Balsam
Elsa Lanchester
Salome Jens
Nancy Marchand
Phil Sterling
Deborah Winters
Ronald Hale
Bob Balaban
Matthew Cowles
Ann Thomas
Al Pacino
Catherine Burns
Robyn Morgan
Daniel Keyes
Peter Turgeon
Milt Kamen
Ross Charap
Dorothea Duckworth
Milo Boulton
Dennis Allen
Robert Frink
Melinda Blachley
Crew
Sheila Bakerman
Michael Hertzberg
George Jenkins
Dennis Maitland
Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini
Rod Mckuen
Jack Mcsweeney
Kurt Neumann
Arthur J. Ornitz
Roger Rothstein
Stanley Shapiro
Stanley Shapiro
Dick Smith
A. Martin Zweiback
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Filmed on location in New York City.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Summer July 1969
Film marks Al Pacino's screen debut.
Released in United States Summer July 1969
