On this day 50 years ago, The Graduate debuted, picturing tortured love on movie theater screens across the U.S. The film starred a boyishly awkward Dustin Hoffman (who earned the part over Robert Redford because he possessed that exact quality). He played Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate with no well-defined aim in life, who is seduced by an older woman (played by Anne Bancroft) but then falls in love with her daughter.
Director Mike Nichols won an Oscar for directing one of the greatest comedy-dramas of all time. WATCH the trailer… (1967)The film’s soundtrack features the song by Simon and Garfunkel about the older woman, “Mrs. Robinson”, who warns Benjamin to never approach her daughter, and “The Sound of Silence.”
MORE Good News on this Date:
- The Constituent Assembly of Italy approved its constitution (1947)
- Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, the last of Eastern Europe’s hard-line Communist rulers, was toppled from power in a popular uprising (1989)
- Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate…
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