Barbra Streisand - On A Clear Day - Love With All The Trimmings

Barbra Streisand - On A Clear Day - Love With All The Trimmings

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever is a 1970 American musical comedy-drama fantasy film starring Barbra Streisand and directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner is adapted from his book for the 1965 stage production of the same name. The songs feature lyrics by Lerner and music by Burton Lane.

At the behest of her mainstream conservative fiancé Warren, scatterbrained five-pack-a-day chain smoker and clairvoyant Daisy Gamble attends a class taught by psychiatrist Marc Chabot for help in kicking her habit. She becomes unintentionally hypnotized and manages to convince Chabot to attempt to cure her nicotine addiction with hypnotherapy. While undergoing hypnosis, it is discovered she is the reincarnation of Lady Melinda Winifred Waine Tentrees, a seductive 19th century coquette who was born the illegitimate daughter of a kitchen maid. She acquired the paternity records of the children housed in the orphanage where her mother had to send her and used the information to blackmail their wealthy fathers. She eventually married nobleman Robert Tentrees during the period of the English Regency, then was tried for espionage and treason after he abandoned her.

As their sessions progress, complications arise when Chabot begins to fall in love with Daisy's exotic former self and Daisy begins to fall for him, and his university colleagues demand he either give up his reincarnation research or resign his position with the school. While waiting for Chabot in his office, Daisy accidentally hears a tape recording of one of her sessions and when she discovers Chabot's interest is limited to Melinda, she storms out of the office. When she returns for a final meeting with him, she mentions fourteen additional lives, including her forthcoming birth as Laura and subsequent marriage to the therapist in the year 2038.

Cast
Barbra Streisand as Daisy Gamble (Melinda, Lady Tentrees)
Yves Montand as Marc Chabot
Larry Blyden as Warren Pratt
Bob Newhart as Dr. Mason Hume
Simon Oakland as Dr. Conrad Fuller
John Richardson as Sir Robert Tentrees
Jack Nicholson as Tad Pringle
Mabel Albertson as Mrs. Hatch
Roy Kinnear as The Prince Regent, later King George IV
Irene Handl as Winnie Wainwhisle, Melinda's mother (a kitchen maid in the household of the Prince Regent)
Pamela Brown as Mrs Maria Fitzherbert

Musical numbers
"Hurry! It's Lovely Up Here" – Daisy
"On a Clear Day" – Orchestra and Chorus
"Love with All the Trimmings" – Daisy
"Wait Till We're 65" - Warren and Daisy (cut before the film's release)
"Melinda" – Marc
"Go to Sleep" – Daisy
"He Isn't You" – Daisy
"What Did I Have That I Don't Have?" – Daisy
"Who Is There Among Us Who Knows" – Tad with Daisy (cut before the film's release)
"Come Back to Me" – Marc
"On a Clear Day" – Marc
"On a Clear Day" (Reprise) – Daisy