Classic Movie Wednesday: Robert Redford and Jane Fonda are newlyweds in “Barefoot in the Park”

The year was 1967 and Jane Fonda and Robert Redford were two young and appealing stars still in the early days of their legendary film careers.

Redford, the future Academy Award winning director and founder of the Sundance Film Festival, reprised his Broadway role of young newlywed Paul in the film version of Neil Simon’s 1963 play Barefoot in the Park.

Meanwhile, future two-time Oscar winner, political activist and workout queen Fonda landed the role of his wife Corie (Natalie Wood turned the down the role originated by Elizabeth Ashley on Broadway).

In this scene, Corie’s mom (and Oscar-nominated Mildred Natwick) pays a surprise visit to the couple’s sixth-floor walk-up where they have just moved in and have yet to decorate with so much as a stick of furniture.