Happy Birthday, Wanda June

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Happy Birthday, Wanda June
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 a play by Kurt Vonnegut, and a 1971 film adaptation of the play 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. The Wanda June of the title is a young girl who died before she could celebrate her birthday. Her birthday cake was subsequently purchased by Harold Ryan's son. Wanda June and several other deceased connections to Harold Ryan speak to the audience from Heaven, where everyone is happily playing shuffleboard.

[edit] Credited cast of the film

• 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

v • d • e Works of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Novels Player Piano (1952) · The Sirens of Titan (1959) · Mother Night (1961) · Cat's Cradle (1963) · God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) · Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) · Breakfast of Champions (1973) · Slapstick (1976) · Jailbird (1979) · Deadeye Dick (1982) · Galápagos (1985) · Bluebeard (1987) · Hocus Pocus (1990) · Timequake (1997) Story collections Canary in a Cathouse (1961) · Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) · Bagombo Snuff Box (1999) · Armageddon in Retrospect (2008) Collected essays Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974) · Palm Sunday (1981) · Fates Worse than Death (1990) · God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999) · A Man Without a Country (2005) Scripts Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970) · Between Time and Timbuktu (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) · Harrison Bergeron (1995) · Mother Night (1996) · Breakfast of Champions (1999) Television Displaced Person (1958, 1985) · Between Time and Timbuktu (1972) · 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)