Far from the Madding Crowd (1967 film) fell off a steep cliff. Ignoring Gabriel's love, Bathsheba impulsively sends a valentine to William Boldwood (Peter Finch), a nearby gentleman farmer. When he misinterprets her capriciousness and proposes to her, Bathsheba promises to consider his offer. But she becomes enamoured of Frank Troy (Terence Stamp), a dashing cavalry sergeant. Troy was supposed to marry young Fanny Robin (Prunella Ransome), a maidservant pregnant with his child, but she went to the wrong church on their wedding day, and Troy was then posted out of town. Bathsheba marries him after his return. Troy gambles away most of Bathsheba's money and creates
Julie Christie Academy Award for Best Actress, and "Doctor Zhivago" (also 1965), the eighth highest-grossing film of all time after adjustment for inflation. In the following years, she starred in "Fahrenheit 451" (1966), "Far from the Madding Crowd" (1967), "Petulia" (1968), "The Go-Between" (1971), "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1971), for which she received her second Oscar nomination, "Don't Look Now" (1973), "Shampoo" (1975), and "Heaven Can Wait" (1978). From the early 1980s, her appearances in mainstream films decreased, though she held roles as Thetis in Wolfgang Petersen's historical epic "Troy" and as Madam Rosmerta in "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"