But the film also is artsy in a way that I would never associate with an actor like Gable.
It's strange enough that they were all in a movie together, as they seem like three very different types of actors. Weird pairing: Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift and Clark Gable Matthau HATED her, and the movie was a notorious disaster). (Barbra had some weird pairings over the year she was also in Hello, Dolly! with Walter Matthau around this time. I don't think he sings, though it's been a long time since I saw it. Interestingly, he was the straight guy hanging with hippies in that one, while here he is the hippie hanging with straights.
This was shortly after Jack's star-making turn in Easy Rider. It might have been crazier had Babs appeared in an AIP biker movie with Jack, but instead they both appeared in an adaptation of a Broadway play. Weird pairing: Jack Nicholson and Barbra Streisand Can you think of any examples of truly weird pairings? Try to think of ones where both had reasonably large roles and were both known at the time, not ones where one of the actors was just starting out in the business. I always find it interesting when two or more actors from seemingly completely different worlds appear in a movie together.
