Happy Birthday, Wanda June
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| Directed by | Mark Robson |
| Written by | based on a play by Kurt Vonnegut |
| Starring | Rod Steiger Susannah York |
| Release date(s) | 1971 |
| Country |  USA |
| Language | English |
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Happy Birthday, Wanda June is the 1971 film adaptation of the play by the same name by Kurt Vonnegut. It was directed by Mark Robson.
[edit] Plot outline
Big game hunter Harold Ryan returns home to America, after having been presumed dead for several years. He finds that his wife Penelope has developed relationships with men very much unlike himself, including a vacuum salesman and a doctor.
[edit] Credited cast
- Rod Steiger : Harold Ryan
- Susannah York : Penelope Ryan
- George Grizzard : Dr. Norbert Woodley
- Don Murray : Herb Shuttle
- William Hickey : Looseleaf Harper
- Steven Paul : Paul Ryan
- Pamelyn Ferdin : Wanda June
- Pamela Saunders : Mildred Ryan
- Louis Turenne : Major von Koningswald
- C.C. Whitney : Mrs. Kestenbaum
- Lester Goldsmith : Mr. Kestenbaum (as Lester M. Goldsmith)
[edit] External links
Happy Birthday, Wanda June at the Internet Movie Database
Works of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
| Novels | 1950s: Player Piano (1952) • The Sirens of Titan (1959) 1960s: Mother Night (1961) • Cat's Cradle (1963) • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine (1965) • Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade (1969) 1970s: Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye, Blue Monday (1973) • Slapstick or Lonesome No More (1976) • Jailbird (1979) 1980s: Deadeye Dick (1982) • Galápagos (1985) • Bluebeard (1987) 1990s: Hocus Pocus (1990) • Timequake (1996) |
| Short story collections | Canary in a Cathouse (1961) • Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) • Bagombo Snuff Box (1999) |
| Collected essays | Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974) • Palm Sunday, An Autobiographical Collage (1981) • Fates Worse than Death, An Autobiographical Collage (1990) • God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (2001) • A Man Without a Country (2005) |
| Plays | Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970) • Between Time and Timbuktu, or Prometheus Five: A Space Fantasy (1972) • Make Up Your Mind (1993) • Miss Temptation (1993) • L'Histoire du Soldat (1993) |
| Adaptations | |
| Stage | Welcome to the Monkey House (1970, 1974) • Sirens of Titan (1974) • Cat's Cradle (1976) • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1979) • Breakfast of Champions (1984) • Requiem (Stone, Time, and Elements: A Humanist Requiem) (1988) • Slaughterhouse-Five (1996) |
| Film | Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971) • Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) • Next Door (1975) • Slapstick of Another Kind (1982) • Mother Night (1996) • Breakfast of Champions (1999) |
| Television | Displaced Person (1958, 1985) • EPICAC (1974, 1992) • Who Am I This Time? (1982) • All the King's Horses (1991) • Next Door (1991) • The Euphio Question (1991) • Fortitude (1992) • The Foster Portfolio (1992) • More Stately Mansions (1992) • Harrison Bergeron (1995) |
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