On A Clear Day You Can See Forever - Movie Behind the Scenes

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On A Clear Day You Can See Forever

Opened June 17, 1970

Behind the Scenes

Here is a collection of photos of Streisand, Minnelli and crew and cast filming “On A Clear Day You Can See Forever.”


“Clear Day’s” Costume Designers

A quick look at Sir Cecil Beaton and Arnold Scaasi ... they dressed Melinda and Daisy, respectively.

Streisand in gorgeous cream colored gown.  Photo: Schiller

Above: Sir Cecil Beaton won two Academy Awards for his costumes and set design in My Fair Lady. He also won an Academy Award for his costumes in Gigi. The gowns he designed and executed for Barbra Streisand in the flashback scenes of On A Clear Day are spectacular—she's never looked more beautiful in a film. Of Miss Streisand, Beaton has said: “By any standards, Miss Streisand is extraordinary. The camera is never indifferent to her, in a good photographer's hands. Her face alone or her personality alone, could fascinate. Together, they also captivate, in a positive sense. My compliment to the lady is that the more she is photographed, the more she ought to be photographed...


Scaasi designed plaid jumper for Streisand as Daisy Gamble.

Above: Arnold Scaasi explained that, for Daisy's contemporary looks in the film, “those costumes had to look right on a college campus in 1969. I did lots of mini-skirt jumpers that buttoned down the front, some with patch pockets. These were paired with textured cotton white shirts.”


Streisand dressed in beautiful white turban and bejeweled gown.

Above: Streisand's most striking look for On A Clear Day was, no doubt, her white gown and turban for the Royal Pavillion scenes, designed by Cecil Beaton.


“It was inspired — and both our ideas, really — to wrap the Streisand features in a glorious white turban,” Beaton stated, “to further accent her strong features. At the same time, she was totally feminine, beguiling, shamelessly sexual. In my designs, her look was soft, almost maternal, but very beautiful, as in a Raphael painting. I tried to stress the lushness of the fabrics, the intricate designs and motifs, in short, the physical if not spiritual splendor of the period we were dealing with. On a less gifted actress and model, on almost any American actress I can think of, this would have been wasted and somewhat ludicrous. Barbra has a less monotonously American-type [look] than most actresses of her nationality.”


Two looks in one photo - Melinda leaving the orphanage in hat and smock, and Daisy leaving Chabot's office in hat and wrap.

Above:  Although Scaasi and Beaton designed two completely different styles for Streisand's characters in the film, the designers combined their creativity to come up with these two garments.  When young Melinda is finally discharged from the orphanage, she wears a straw hat and brown dress with a layered smock.  Daisy, leaving Dr. Chabot's office, wears a similar hat, with a layered wrap on top of the dress. 

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