- Stay Hungry
Infobox_Film
name =Stay Hungry
director =Bob Rafelson
producer =Harold Schneider ,Bob Rafelson
writer =Charles Gaines,Bob Rafelson
starring =Jeff Bridges Sally Field Arnold Schwarzenegger Scatman Crothers Robert Englund
distributor =United Artists
released =April 23 ,1976
runtime =102 min.
language =English
budget =N/A
music =Byron Berline ,Bruce Langhorne
awards =Golden Globe (Schwarzenegger)
imdb_id =075268"Stay Hungry" is a
1976 dramatic comedyfilm by directorBob Rafelson from a screenplay by Charles Gaines (adapted from his 1972 novel of the same name). The story centers on a youngBirmingham, Alabama , scion, played byJeff Bridges , who gets involved in a shady real-estate deal. In order to close the deal, he needs to buy agym building to complete a multi-parcel lot. When he visits the gym, however, he finds himself romantically interested in the receptionist (Sally Field ) and drawn to the carefree lifestyle of the Austrian body builder "Joe Santo" (Arnold Schwarzenegger ) who is training there for theMr. Universe competition.Roger Callard, one of the top bodybuilders of that era, was quoted in a 1983 bodybuilding magazine regarding an event he experienced during the making of the film. “The director was screaming over his megaphone, ‘Please do not touch the bodybuilders!’ People were rushing us, even scratching us!”
Schwarzenegger won a
Golden Globe for "Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture" for his portrayal of Joe Santo in "Stay Hungry". Technically, it was not his debut role, since he had played Hercules (as "Arnold Strong") in the 1970 film "Hercules in New York " and a hitman inRobert Altman 's 1973 film "The Long Goodbye". It was, however, the first time his voice had been heard on film as "Hercules" was dubbed and the hitman character was deaf and mute.ee also
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Pumping Iron "External links
* [http://www.bhamwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Stay_Hungry "Stay Hungry" entry at BhamWiki.com]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075268/ "Stay Hungry" on the IMDB]References
* Hause, Irene [L.] . (1983, January). [http://www.wyomingwoman.net/MikeMentzer-1983-Rev2.html Mike Mentzer’s Video Venture] . "Muscle Mag International". Issue Number 33, page 25. (Retrieved August 21, 2008.)
* Tonguette, Peter. [http://www.thefilmjournal.com/issue11/rafelson.html Bob Rafelson and His Odd American Places] . "The Film Journal". Issue 11. (Retrieved December 1, 2005.)
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