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"The Great Waldo Pepper" teams up Robert Redford and George Roy Hill

October 19, 1976

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The young men with their heads in the clouds in the 1920's provide the inspiration for Universal's "Great Waldo Pepper," a George Roy Hill Film, starring Robert Redford, opening Thursday 21st. at Cinema 2. Produced and directed by Hil in Technicolor and Todd-A0 35, the drama about early barnstormers was written by William Goldman from a story by Hill. Air sequences of the Jennings Lang presentation were supervised by Frank Tallman and the music is by Henry Mancini. Co-starring are Bo Svenson, Bo Brundin, Susan Sarandon, Margot Kidder, Geoffrey Lewis, Edward Herrmann, Philip Bruns, Roderick Cook and Kelly Jean Peters. Robert Redford, who was directed by Hill in the highly successful "The Sting" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," has a role made to his magnetic measure as Waldo-brash, iconoclastic, possessed by a passion for flying, and given to dreams of glory. In addition to "The Sting," for which he won an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor, his most recent roles have been in "The Way We Were," "The Great Gatsby" and the upcoming "Three for The Condor." Swedish-born Bo Svenson heads the co-starring cast as Axel Olsson. He began his professional career off-Broadway, then was signed In the role of a German World War I flying ace who finds himself in Hollywood doing stunt work, Bo Brundin is making his Hollywood film debut. His only previous appearance before the camera was in Jerry Lewis' "The Day the Clown Cried." Susan Sarandon, cast as a The hysterical crowd around a crashed plane is driven away by the low-flying Waldo Pepper in Universal's "The Great Waldo Pepper," a George Roy Hill Film photographed in Technicolor and Todd-Ao 35.

for television roles in episodes of "Here Come the Brides," "McCloud" and other series. He also appeared in the ABC Television Network production of "Frankenstein." spirited small-town girl who becomes involved with Waldo and Axel, went from summer stock to a film debut in "Joe". Broadway audiences saw her in Gore Vidal's "An Evening with Richard Nixon," and television's "A World Apart" and "Search" for Tomorrow".

On the strength of her performance in "The Great Waldo Pepper", she won a co-starring role in Universal's "The Front Page." Margot Kidder, as the girl Waldo comes back to when he is injured in air accidents, won a Gold Medal Award as Best Actress of 1973 at the Atlanta Film Festival for her dual roles in "Sisters." She made her American film debut in "Gaily, Gaily" and was a regular in television's "Nichols" series.