Robert Redford and Jane Fonda star in Barefoot in the Park (1967)

For the Summer 2006 season of "Monday Nights with Oscar" in New York City, the Academy is pleased to present Barefoot in the Park, adapted by Neil Simon from his 1963 Broadway play of the same name. Filmed around notable New York locations in the 1960s (Washington Square, the now-closed Plaza Hotel on Central Park and Greenwich Village) and directed by Gene Saks (The Odd Couple, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Last of the Red Hot Lovers), Barefoot in the Park is a hilarious comedy about newlyweds Corie and Paul Bratter (Jane Fonda and Robert Redford) as they set up house in their tiny fifth floor apartment in a Greenwich Village walk-up with a busted radiator and broken skylight. Adding to the situation is a building full of eccentrics, including neighbor Victor Velasco (Charles Boyer), who prefers to enter his apartment through the Bratters’ bedroom window, and Corie Bratter’s mother, Ethel Banks (Mildred Natwick, who earned an Academy Award nomination in the role). Print provided courtesy of Paramount Pictures. 1967. 105 minutes.