Other Titles • On Golden Pond • Am goldenen See (1982)
Trivia from On Golden Pond (1981)
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ON GOLDEN POND was shot on Squam Lake in New Hampshire, where the residents opposed the shooting originally. Director Mark Rydell brought Katharine Hepburn to a town meeting, however, and she won the town over.
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Henry Fonda made his final film appearance in ON GOLDEN POND. It's the only film in which he performed with one of his children.
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Jane Fonda bought the rights to the play with the idea that her father should play the lead.
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Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda had, almost incredibly, never met before working on the film.
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The old hat Henry Fonda wears in the film was given to him by Hepburn--it belonged to her great love, Spencer Tracy, and, before Tracy, to Western director John Ford, who gave Fonda his start.
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The film won 3 Academy Awards: Best Actress for Hepburn, Best Actor for Fonda, and Best Screenplay for Thompson.
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ON GOLDEN POND is dedicated to its editor Robert L. Wolfe, who died shortly after post-production.
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"Special thanks" is given in the credits to Roger Spottiswoode.
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