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Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice is a 1969 comedy-drama directed by Paul Mazursky. It starred Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon.

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Plot summary

After a weekend of emotional honesty at an Esalen-style retreat, Los Angeles sophisticates Bob and Carol Sanders return to their life determined to embrace free love and complete openness. Bob and Carol happily reveal their ensuing love affairs to everyone, sparking the curiosity and repulsion of their close friends Ted and Alice Henderson. When the two couples travel together to Las Vegas, Ted admits an affair of his own. An outraged Alice demands that this new ethos be taken to its obvious conclusion: a mate-sharing foursome. But before they can begin, doubts arise.

Trivia

Natalie Wood decided to gamble her $750,000 salary on a percentage of the gross, earning $3 million. She had earlier declined a similar offer with West Side Story (1961).
Actors who turned down roles in the film include Warren Beatty
, Robert Redford
, Steve McQueen
, Tuesday Weld
, Jane Fonda
and Faye Dunaway
.
Actors who tested for the role of Ted Henderson included Richard Benjamin
, James Caan
and Peter Falk
.
Donald F. Muhich, who played Alice Henderson's therapist, was director Paul Mazursky's real-life therapist. He later appeared in three other Mazursky films.

Main cast

Natalie Wood
- Carol Sanders
Robert Culp
- Bob Sanders
Elliott Gould
- Ted Henderson
Dyan Cannon
- Alice Henderson

TV version

A sitcom based on the film appeared on ABC during the 1972-73 season, starring Anita Gillette, Robert Urich, David Spielberg and Anne Archer. A 10-year old Jodie Foster also appeared in one of her first acting roles as Ted and Alice's daughter. Because the overt sexual nature of the film could not be translated to a network TV project, the characters needed to be substantially "toned down", thus losing much of the film's edge. As a result, the series did poorly and was quickly canceled.

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