Robert Redford Bronson for Pollack's "This Property Is Condemned" (1966)—again as her lover, though this time in a film which achieved even greater success. The same year saw his first teaming (on equal footing) with Jane Fonda, in Arthur Penn's "The Chase". This film marked the only time Redford would star with Marlon Brando. Fonda and Redford were paired again in the popular big-screen version of "Barefoot in the Park" (1967) and were again co-stars much later in Pollack's "The Electric Horseman" (1979), followed 38 years later with a Netflix feature, "Our Souls at Night". After this initial success, Redford became concerned
Barefoot in the Park (film) lead female role had been offered to Natalie Wood who had already played opposite Robert Redford in two movies. Wood declined the offer because she wanted to take time off from acting. Natwick was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Fonda was nominated for a BAFTA as Best Foreign Actress, and Simon received a nod from the Writers Guild of America. Corie (Jane Fonda), a free spirited young woman, and Paul Bratter (Robert Redford), a conservative, less free-spirited man, are a recently married couple, who move into a fifth floor apartment in Greenwich Village (one of the