![]() ![]() Principal photography began in San Francisco, according to DV production charts. On, DV reported a five-minute break in shooting on the previous day to honor the nationwide “Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam.”. Darby reportedly wanted the role, and both she and Robinson believed it would advance her career. An article in the LAT revealed that actress Kim Darby and her agent, Bill Robinson, declined a $275,000 salary from an unidentified production in favor of The Strawberry Statement, which offered half that amount plus a percentage of profits. Rogers returned to Los Angeles, CA, after scouting locations in and around San Francisco, CA. A news item in the edition stated that unit production manager John W. The DV noted that playwright Israel Horovitz recently completed the script. ![]() As explained in the NYT, the title was inspired by a Columbia dean who stated, “Whether students vote ‘yes’ or ‘no’ on an issue is like telling me they like strawberries.” The strike occurred after the university attempted to squelch student dissent over its involvement in weapons development for the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), and its plans to demolish nearby Morningside Park, in the predominantly African American Harlem neighborhood, to build a segregated gymnasium. The film was based on the 1969 book by James Simon Kunen, comprised of his diaries chronicling the 1968 Columbia University student strike, originally published anonymously as a series in New York magazine. ![]()
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