Opened June 17, 1970
Even though Paramount Pictures lost faith in “On A Clear Day You Can See Forever” as a long-form “roadshow” presentation and edited the film to a shorter length, they still used the full power of the studio to promote the movie.
Here are collected some of the “Clear Day” posters, lobby cards, newspaper ads, and more.
BARBRA ARCHIVES “ON A CLEAR DAY” PAGES:
OVERVIEW (DEVELOPMENT, CASTING, HAIR TESTS, REINCARNATION BALL, FILMING, LOCATIONS)
PUBLICITY, POSTERS, SOUNDTRACK ALBUM, FEATURETTES
BEHIND THE SCENES PHOTOS, BEATON & SCAASI COSTUMES
CUT SCENES / ROADSHOW PT. 1 — WAIT TILL WE’RE 65 + MORE
CUT SCENES / ROADSHOW PT. 2 — E.S.P., SHE ISN’T YOU + MORE
Below: A photo gallery of “Clear Day” publicity materials. Use the arrows to navigate.
A “featurette” is a short documentary film produced by the film studio that was meant to publicize their movie. Two were created to publicize On A Clear Day.
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“Barbra: Yesterday, Today and Forever” had behind-the-scenes footage of Vincente Minnelli and producer Howard Koch. It showed the crew filming “Hurry! It’s Lovely Up Here” at the Rose Garden in Los Angeles. Also seen were Streisand and Minnelli discussing “Go To Sleep” on set. The last scene was the crew filming the final number on location.
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There was also a short film about the Reincarnation Ball that Paramount threw to celebrate the commencement of filming On A Clear Day You Can See Forever. In the short film was footage of Streisand in her Colette costume (alongside manager Marty Erlichman in top hat), as well as Yves Montand, Cecil Beaton, and various other celebrities who attended.
An album containing alternate tracks from the Clear Day soundtrack was produced by Chappell Music (publishers of the Lerner & Lane score) and distributed at industry functions prior to the film’s release to publicize it. [Catalog #: EV 2303].
Some of Barbra’s songs on this LP feature either alternate vocals or different orchestrations.
Side One
Side Two
† Songs cut from the film or omitted from the soundtrack album.
§ Does not contain Barbra's spoken dialogue.
* Barbra's monologue in the middle was not included. The orchestration of the climax and ending of the song are very different than what was heard in the final film.
** This version of the title tune includes one minute of orchestral underscoring at the beginning. Streisand sings the first lines of the lyric, then more underscoring. At 2:10, Barbra sings the song uninterrupted, just like in the film. You can hear a choir of voices at the end of the song, ‘ooh-ing’ and ‘aah-ing’ behind Barbra. The choir was removed altogether for the final soundtrack.
Special thanks to Ricky Coombs for the scan of the Chappell label.
Jack Nicholson's song—“Who Is There Among Us Who Knows?”—first appeared on the commercially released 1985 album, Cut! Out Takes From Hollywood's Greatest Musicals, Vol. One [Out Take Records, catalog OTF-1]
“Wait Till We're 65” was issued as a bootleg 7-inch record (backed with Dean Martin's “My Shining Star”)—they misspelled Blyden and Barbra's name on the label. They got the title of the song wrong, too!
I've been unable to track down much information about this LP, (ARS 296901).
The publication date is unknown, and the label is odd (Arise Records? Romans 10:9?? That's weird.)
If you come across this album, there's some deductions you can make:
Special thanks to LARRY YALKOWSKY for the label scan.
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