Clint and Geneviève Bujold – early 1970 meeting
Geneviève Bujold is of course familiar as the rape prevention adviser Beryl Thibodeaux in the 1984 thriller Tightrope. However, not so many people are aware that Eastwood and Bujold first crossed paths some 14 years earlier in 1970.
Bujold was enjoying some major acclaim and international recognition after she starred as Anne Boleyn in Charles Jarrott's film Anne of the Thousand Days, with Richard Burton. Producer Hal B. Wallis cast her after seeing her in Isabel. For her performance, she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. It was released by Universal who signed her to a three-picture contract.
Some time ago, I came across a very rough photo from the press premiere of Anne of the Thousand Days. The picture was pretty beaten up and worse of all, it had a large blue marker pen line drawn across it. However, the picture was so rare that I had to make an attempt to restore it. I was quite happy with the results, so gave it a nice clean surround and a caption to record the event. Clint was in attendance for the screening along with his then wife Maggie, so thought it should have a place here on the Archive.
Below: I have taken this opportunity to also include a further rare shot of both Eastwood and Bujold together at the Montréal Film Festival, Canada on August 23rd 1984.
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