Dear Heart (1964) on Netflix
Approved19641h 54mComedyFamily
Evie Jackson, a small-town Ohio postmaster, hopes for romance at a New York convention. Harry Mork, newly engaged, is staying at the same hotel while he starts an office job.
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- Netflix2.6/5
- IMDb7.2/102,142 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes33%
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Plot summary
Evie Jackson is a middle-aged postmaster from a small Ohio town, in New York for a postmasters' convention at a hotel. Outgoing and blunt, she has friends but wants a lasting romance rather than the brief affairs she has had with married men at earlier conventions, and she arranges small comforts for herself, such as a welcome message and a page in the lobby. Harry Mork, who used to travel selling greeting cards, wants to settle down. He is engaged to Phyllis, a widowed housewife from Altoona, and stays at the same hotel while he begins his new position and looks for an apartment. At check-in he is surprised by the arrival of Phyllis's son Patrick, a bearded eighteen-year-old rather than the boy he expected. A crowded restaurant seats Evie and Harry at one table.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dear Heart (1964)
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- Warner Bros. was unsure when to release Dear Heart, so Henry Mancini, who with Larry Shayne owned half of the theme song, asked studio head Jack L. Warner to open it in time for the March 1965 Oscars; Warner agreed to a week in Los Angeles if they paid the advertising, which cost only $10,000.
- As Dear Heart began production, Glenn Ford's long relationship with actress Hope Lange ended when she married producer Alan Pakula, leaving him heartbroken; the shoot was otherwise a positive one, but Ford could not stop brooding over Lange.
- The opening and closing scenes of Dear Heart were shot in New York's Penn Station, with the production taking advantage of the just-commenced demolition of the station's above-ground structures.
- Henry Mancini turned to Jay Livingston and Ray Evans for lyrics after Johnny Mercer proved unavailable; the pair read the script and based the song's lyrics and title on Geraldine Page's character. The film's original title, The Out-of-Towners, became Dear Heart when Martin Manulis heard the theme song.
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