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Cactus Flower was the ninth highest-grossing film of 1969. Twenty-one-year-old Toni Simmons attempts suicide by inhaling gas from her stove. Toni's neighbor Igor Sullivan smells the gas and rescues her by using mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, which evolves into a kiss after Toni regains consciousness.
Dr Julian Winston--successful Fifth Avenue dentist, and easygoing middle-aged bachelor--finds himself between a rock and a hard place, when his convenient, well-orchestrated lie paired with a failed act of despair force him to make a promise.
Goldie Hawn and Walter Matthau have that happening in "Cactus Flower," and Ingrid Bergman moves between them with absolute serenity. The story should be familiar by now; the play ran forever at the Blackstone. It's about a middle-aged dentist, his nurse, and his 21-year-old mistress.
The document is a screenplay for the film "Cactus Flower" that follows dentist Dr. Julian Winston and his dental hygienist Stephanie Dixon as they prepare for patients and discuss Julian's relationship with his girlfriend Antonia "Toni" Simmons, with Julian's friend Harry questioning whether Julian plans to marry Toni.
Hawn stars as Toni Simmons, a twenty-one year old lost in the city, who attempts to commit suicide by gas poisoning after being stood up by her lover, the considerably older dentist Dr Julian Winston (Matthau).
Summary A philandering dentist keeps his many affairs at bay by claiming to be married with children. When the ruse threatens to catch up with him, he drafts his prickly nurse to pose as his "wife."
Plot. Twenty-one-year-old Toni Simmons attempts to commit suicide by inhaling gas from her stove. Toni's neighbor, Igor Sullivan, smells the gas and rescues her by using mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, which evolves into a kiss after Toni regains consciousness.
