After he hounds her psychically, she returns to see him one last time. Chabot desperately tries to convince Daisy to continue the sessions and his research, now approved by a rich man who wants to come back in his next life and get his money from this one. Chabot almost loses his job and Daisy is devastated that Chabot is in love with her–but only the person she was in a previous life. When the school administration and Daisy find out what’s really going on during the sessions, all hell breaks loose. Daisy, misunderstanding his interest in her, thinks he’s falling for her. Over several sessions, as he learns more details of her life, Chabot begins to fall in love with Melinda. Unlike Daisy, Melinda seems at first a cultured woman, but it turns out she was the child of a scullery maid who used many devious methods to rise in society, including blackmail. During their session, he accidentally regresses Daisy back to the Regency era in England, where she had a previous life as a woman named Melinda Tentrees, who was also a psychic. Skeptical of such things, he hypnotizes her to discover how she finds missing items and makes flowers grow faster than usual. Because he uses hypnosis to help his patients, she hopes he can help her stop smoking in time for her meeting with the recruiters.Īnnoyed by Daisy’s ditzy personality, Chabot wants to palm her off on another doctor until he realizes she may have some psychic ability. Mark Chabot (Yves Montand), a psychiatrist who teaches at a medical school. He thinks her habit is not “normal” and may repel the recruiters of a huge conglomerate he wants to work for. The story follows adorkable Daisy Gamble, a chain smoker who is engaged to an ambitious young man named Warren (Larry Blyden).
#Barbara streisand on a clear day movie#
It doesn’t feel like a musical–it’s more like a movie with some music in it.) (This, I have to admit, is another reason why I probably really like this film. Also, the movie adaptation pared down many of the musical numbers from the Broadway version. Perhaps its ESP/past lives/New Age-ish themes were a little too advanced for the time. Initially, the movie was not one of Streisand’s (or director Vincent Minelli’s) most highly regarded films, but it seems to have grown in reputation over the decades.
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever was based on the Broadway musical of the same name, written by Alan Jay Lerner, who also wrote the screenplay for the movie. The 1970 film On a Clear Day You Can See Forever is one of them, and a big reason is Barbra Streisand’s tour de force in a dual role, as the same woman in two different lives. Generally speaking, I’m not terribly fond of musicals. To read all the contributions to this blogathon, click HERE. This post is part of the Dueling Divas Blogathon 2015, hosted by Lara at Backlots.
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