Harold and Maude ( 1971 ) was not successful financially at the time of its original release, but has since earned a cult following and has become successful following its video and DVD releases.

In 1970 the movie Harold and Maude was filmed at the toll plaza and showed Maude speeding and disobeying a police officer.

In the 1971 movie Harold and Maude the character Harold, played by Bud Cort, drives two hearses: originally a 1959 Cadillac Superior 3-way ; and then later a custom hearse he makes from a 1971 Jaguar XK-E 4. 2 Series II.

Several " Harold and Maude " fans have since built similar hearses from E-Types and photos of them can be found online.

Harold and Maude is a 1971 American dark comedy film directed by Hal Ashby and released by Paramount Pictures.

Harold drifts away from the life that his detached mother ( Vivian Pickles ) prescribes for him, and develops a relationship with a 79-year-old woman named Maude ( played by Ruth Gordon ).

Harold and Maude was also a play on Broadway that closed after four performances.

Cover of the Harold and Maude video, with lead actors Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort

At a funeral service for a total stranger, Harold meets Maude ( Ruth Gordon ), a 79-year-old woman who shares Harold's hobby of attending funerals.

The pair form a bond, and Maude slowly shows Harold the pleasures of art and music ( Harold is taught to play banjo ), and teaches him how to " the most of his time on earth.

As they become closer, Harold announces that he will marry Maude, resulting in disgusted outbursts from his family, psychiatrist and priest.

As the couple dances, Maude tells Harold that she " couldn't imagine a lovelier farewell.

The effort is thwarted by a stunt in which Harold appears to kill Maude.

He also tells Harold not to marry Maude.

Harold tells Maude when they are talking candidly at her house that he has " died a few times.

Harold and Maude is # 45 on the American Film Institute ’ s list of 100 Years ... 100 Laughs, the list of the top 100 films in American comedy.

Two years later, AFI released the list AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Passions honoring the most romantic films for the past 100 years, Harold and Maude ranked # 69.

Harold and Maude was acknowledged as the ninth best film in the romantic comedy genre.

Harold is death, Maude life, and they manage to make the two seem so similar that life ’ s hardly worth the extra bother.

In the 1971 film Harold and Maude, Maude shows Harold her painting titled " The Rape of Rome ," which includes Leda and the Swan in the bottom right corner.

WWII: The Army Air Corps piano was an acoustic instrument invented by Harold Rhodes during World War II in an effort to create a piano that injured soldiers could play while lying in a hospital bed.

Dr Harold Glass, a medical physicist working in London in the early 1990s secured UK Government funding and managed the project over many years which transformed Hammersmith Hospital in London as the first filmless hospital in the United Kingdom.

* Harold Gould — Barney Gerber — elderly hospital patient who shares a room with Jodie in season one, and whose story gives Jodie the inspiration to continue living after a suicide attempt.

* Piercey, W. Douglas & Scarborough, Harold ( 2008 ), hospital, Encyclopædia Britannica.

Five days after his birth, his mother, Wendy Munro, placed him for adoption with Jeanne Joseph, a nurse who had befriended her during her hospital stay, and her husband Harold Joseph.

At the hospital, Rose shares her fears and Harold tells her that she is fine – the doctor called right before Bright's accident.

The group consisted of about 25 people among whom were Bill Farrand of the State Department ; Loren Roth as head of the psychiatric team ; psychiatrists of the National Institute of Mental Health, including Scientific Director of the US Delegation Darrel A. Regier, Harold Visotsky from Chicago as head of the hospital visit team, and four émigré Soviet psychiatrists living in the United States.

Harold Finigan, then executive director of the fort, restored the artillery shed and hospital.

Harold panics and attempts to get Marjorie into the car to take her to hospital but, with blood streaming down her face, Marjorie manages to pick up a knife Harold drops and attacks him with it.

The countrywide success of `` Lazybones '' and `` And The Angels Sing '' could only lead to Hollywood, where, besides Harold Arlen, Mercer collaborated with Harry Warren, Jimmy Van Heusen, Richard Whiting, Walter Donaldson, Jerome Kern, and Arthur Schwartz.

Lewis followed the legacy of such comedians as Keaton and Harold Lloyd, but his work was not well received by critics in the United States ( in contrast to France where he proved highly popular.

In 1919, Harold Abrahams ( Ben Cross ) enters the University of Cambridge, where he experiences anti-Semitism from the staff, but enjoys participating in the Gilbert and Sullivan club.

Led by Harold Nelson, some 1000 demonstrators marched to Government House at Liberty Square in Darwin where they burnt an effigy of the Administrator of the Northern Territory John Gilruth and demanded his resignation.

While some historians read this generous act as a sign that Emperor Menelik still hoped for a peaceful resolution to the war, Harold Marcus points out that this escort allowed him a tactical advantage: " Menelik craftily managed to establish himself in Hawzien, at Gendepata, near Adwa, where the mountain passes were not guarded by Italian fortifications.

On 14 October, after having marched his exhausted army all the way from Yorkshire, Harold fought the Normans at the Battle of Hastings, where England's army was defeated and Harold was killed.

( 1936 ) and his Ph. D. ( 1943 ) in political science, from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Harold Lasswell and Charles Edward Merriam.

The saga of Harold Hardrada narrates his expedition to the East, his brilliant exploits in Constantinople, Syria, and Sicily, his skaldic accomplishments, and his battles in England against Harold Godwinson, the son of Earl Godwin, where he fell at Stamford Bridge in 1066 only a few days before Harold himself fell at the battle of Hastings.

She was a young woman who came to the Ryall's Hotel in Blantyre, where Harold Macmillan was lunching on the homeward leg of his famous ' wind of change ' tour in Cape Town.

During 1933 – 34 he had a fellowship at Columbia University, where he studied statistics with renowned statistician and economist Harold Hotelling.

In 1943, Friedman joined the Division of War Research at Columbia University ( headed by W. Allen Wallis and Harold Hotelling ), where he spent the rest of World War II working as a mathematical statistician, focusing on problems of weapons design.

In 1975, Giuliani switched his party registration from Democratic to Independent as he was recruited to Washington, D. C. during the Ford administration, where he was named Associate Deputy Attorney General and chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Harold " Ace " Tyler.

The two armies clashed at the Battle of Hastings, at Senlac Hill ( near the present town of Battle ) close by Hastings on 14 October, where after nine hours of hard fighting and probably less than 30 minutes from victory Harold was killed and his forces routed.

The spot where Harold died which became the site of Battle Abbey

A plaque marks the place where Harold is believed to have fallen and the location where the high altar of the church once stood.

The family returned to the United States in 1962, and Sharon moved to Los Angeles, where she contacted Richard Beymer's agent, Harold Gefsky.

So William the Conqueror vowed to build an abbey where the Battle of Hastings had taken place, with the high altar of its church on the supposed spot where King Harold fell in that battle on Saturday, 14 October 1066.

The church's high altar allegedly stood on the spot where Harold died.

He served in the Conservative shadow cabinet during the Wilson government, and built up his practice at the Bar where one of his clients was the Prime Minister and his political opponent, Harold Wilson.