Robert Redford was my first and only celebrity crush. He stared in the greatest movies of my time: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Candidate (1972), The Way We Were (1973), The Sting (1973), The Great Gatsby (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975), All the President’s Men (1976), Ordinary People (1980), The Natural (1984) and Out of Africa (1985). My school friends and I swooned when he was on the stage.
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I went to Sundance today with John to check on our re-roofing project there. I was glad to be there and I took a walk to where I could look over to Robert Redford’s property to pay my respects. This is the end of an era. For many of us, he was larger than life. I felt sad today, knowing he has moved on from this world.
Below you can see his home and property from our side of the mountain.
His home is in the clearing.
Here is a selection of his notable films, listed roughly in order of release:
- War Hunt (1962)
- Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
- Barefoot in the Park (1967)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- Downhill Racer (1969)
- Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
- The Candidate (1972)
- The Way We Were (1973)
- The Sting (1973)
- The Great Gatsby (1974)
- Three Days of the Condor (1975)
- All the President’s Men (1976)
- A Bridge Too Far (1977)
- The Electric Horseman (1979)
- Ordinary People (1980)
- The Natural (1984)
- Out of Africa (1985)
- Sneakers (1992)
- A River Runs Through It (1992)
- Quiz Show (1994)
- Up Close & Personal (1996)
- The Horse Whisperer (1998)
- The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
- Spy Game (2001)
- All Is Lost (2013)
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
- Pete’s Dragon (2016)
- Our Souls at Night (2017)
- The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
- Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Another part of our family history is that we bought our Sundance cabin from Sydney Pollack, who directed many of Redford’s films. When we purchased the cabin, the Pollack’s left it furnished (we had no idea they were doing that). They had bought property in northern California to build family cabins on and told us the things in this cabin belonged here.
One day we got a message from Claire Pollack asking if we’d mail the dream-catcher that hung in the kitchen window to her. We were happy to send it. She explained that at one of their cast parties, held there in our cabin after a movie premier, Barbara Streissand had brought that dream-catcher as her gift to the director. They thought it was such a cheap and tacky gift, they wanted to keep it for the memory. We all had a good laugh. I like knowing these beloved movie stars once partied in the cabin we now own.
Robert Redford made seven films with director Sydney Pollack: This Property Is Condemned (1966), Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Way We Were (1973), Three Days of the Condor (1975), The Electric Horseman (1979), Out of Africa (1985), and Havana (1990). Their collaboration spanned over two decades and formed a significant filmmaking partnership.
