Barefoot in the Park feature film, starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, directed by Gene Saks. A television series based on the play began on ABC in September 1970. It was an African-American situation comedy which ran for twelve weeks. The show featured Scoey Mitchell and Tracy Reed as a "young middle-class couple living in a New York City apartment and struggling through the first years of marriage." This was one of two television series based on Neil Simon plays to debut on the network that month, the other being "The Odd Couple". A production of "Barefoot in the Park" ran at the Moore
Jane Fonda is that because of my actions against the war my career had been destroyed ... But the truth is that my career, far from being destroyed after the war, flourished with a vigor it had not previously enjoyed." She reduced acting because of her political activism providing a new focus in her life. Her return to acting in a series of 'issue-driven' films reflected this new focus. In 1972, Fonda starred as a reporter alongside Yves Montand in "Tout Va Bien", directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin. The two directors then made "Letter to Jane", in which the two