Word: landgard
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...plop Neddy Merrill and a bikinied blonde. They shake the man awake. "Know what day this is?" The drunk couldn't care less. Neddy and the blonde swim the length of the pool, get out and move on. Neddy Merrill is Burt Lancaster, the girl is Starlet Janet Landgard, and the scene is from a movie called The Swimmer, now being filmed in Connecticut's Fairfield County, a quaintly sybaritic suburb of New York City. The picture is an adaptation of John Cheevers short story about Neddy's attempt to drown his troubles with what he thinks...
...grandchildren are going to see me drunk in a swimming pool." Instead, they will see Granddad playing a bystander in a smaller if more decorous role, which has already been filmed. "All I did," says Cheever, "was say 'Hi,' shake Lancaster's hand, and kiss Janet Landgard, which I liked...
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