goldie hawn and in 1969 and be best know for play in television comedy show in particular rowan and martin laugh in and where she be the giggly cookie young blond . she do make movie before cactus flower and the most notable be a walt disney feature and the one and only genuine and original family band . but cactus flower pick up on her character from laugh in and and ( due to a good script by i. a. l. diamond billy wild second partner base on an abe burrow play ) she be able to develop the television character so that a real performance be flesh out . a a result m hawn win an oscar for best support actress in 1969 and and her career take off to such future hit a private benjamin and the first wive club . although other star of laugh in do well on television ( henry gibson have a recur role a a judge on boston legal ) only goldie be able to have a career a a bonifide movie star . on laugh in goldie personality would show a naiveté that would be embarrass . occasionally she realize it and and would laugh loud to cover and but sometimes she just do not see her error ( example represent goldie be introduce to the 1950s variety show host gary moore and and be tell and goldie and this be mr. gary moore . she shake his hand and say ( much to his confusion ) and i have always want to meet mr. john gary moore . ) . but a toni simmons it be quite different . she be desperately in love with dr. julian winston ( walter matthau ) and a successful dentist and who can never marry her . julian have tell her that his wife ( with whom he have have two son and a daughter ) will never give him a divorce . so at the start of the film toni try to commit suicide by the gas of her stove . but she be rescue by her neighbor and igor sullivan ( rick lenz ) and a struggle dramatist and who break into her apartment and turn off the gas . toni be resign to live and but she have send a suicide note to julian . igor try to deliver a message to ignore the note but julian receptionist or nurse or assistant and stephanie dickinson ( ingrid bergman ) would not stop julian work schedule to pass him the phone when igor call . instead julian find the letter and race to toni apartment and only to find her alive . when igor support her story that she try to kill herself and julian realize the depth of her love and and decide he must marry such a woman . unfortunately toni have swallow julian lie and and believe in his wife and child . you see and julian have no wife and child . since toni be a firm believer that she can not marry a man who would lie to her julian be stick on a weakening tree branch . julian come to solve it by get stephanie to pretend she be mrs. winston . stephanie be oppose to it at first and but on her own and on her first free saturday and she confront toni at the record shop toni be at . they talk and and toni notice all the fine strength of character and personality of stephanie ( and since stephanie have her two nephew with her and toni think they be julian kid ) . toni tell julian they have to see who be the man that stephanie be supposedly go to marry . so the lie start spiral for julian and stephanie and and toni . soon a lover be give to stephanie in the form of julian friend and freeload patient harvey greenfield ( jack weston ) . greenfield be so sleazy ( stephanie loathe him ) that toni feel that he be unworthy of stephanie . and so it go and with one complication ( most cause by the well intentioned and misinform toni ) follow another until the conclusion . the script be full of first rate situation and one liner ( example represent julian to reward stephanie for lie about their marriage and buy two record album from toni store . he have give a mink stole to toni and but she decide to send it to stephanie with julian card . stephanie be quite happy at get the mink and but she do not say a word about the nature of the gift she get when she profusely thanks matthau and he say the thought she would like horowitz mean vladomir horowitz . but stephanie think horowitz be the name of the furrier . ) . bergman must have enjoy the filming and a several scene show that earthy radiance that be a trademark for her in the late 1940s film . but there be also the resemblance to her 1958 film comedy smash hit and indiscreet . there cary grant lie to make sure the pair would concentrate on the romance of their affair without have to think about marriage . when grant lie be reveal to bergman she decide on a lie of her own to convince grant that she be make him a cuckold . here and instead of be the passive lover believe matthau be tell the truth and bergman gingerly try to get matthau out of his mess by little white lie and only to find one lead to another to complicate everyone life . bergman be see a a nice woman who become part of the problem and despite try to be part of the solution . all the lead perform well and in particular bergman and all business thoroughness at first but gradually reclaim her sexuality . matthau be delightful a a man who find a useful lie be an impediment that just can not be kick aside . the support cast and especially weston a the mooching and sexually slimy harvey and and vito scotti a the u. n. ambassador who actually have the hots for bergman . it be a clever comedy and and a really good way for goldie hawn movie career to push forward .