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HealtH (1980) More at IMDbPro »

• Has never been released on video or DVD due to a music clearance issue.
  
  
• Was supposed to come out in 1980. According to Robert Altman, 20th Century Fox went through a regime change and wouldn't release it. Altman eventually released the movie himself in April 1982.
  
  
• Dick Cavett (playing himself) is heard listening to the Tonight Show in his hotel room.
  
  
• 'HealtH' was an organization in the movie which was an acronym for Happiness, Energy And Longevity Through Health.
  
  
• According to 'Robert Altman', Bacall's and Jackson portrayals were based on Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson. In fact Glenda Jackson as Stevenson had many of her speeches lifted from Stevenson.
  
  
• Lary Crews, 'Robert Altman''s personal assistant on the film, was injured in a hit and run accident in the parking lot of the Don CeSar Resort Hotel (the film's location.) during production and spent two weeks in Palms of Pasadena hospital. Years later, Crews wrote a novel, "Extreme Close-Up", based on his experiences working on pre-production of the film.
  
  

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