In retrospect, Cort said, "if I were going do it over again I would just say 'yes' to everything." Instead, "Harold" became his career-defining role, even though he went on to have over 100 screen credits, ranging from "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" (with his "McCloud" co-star Shelley Duvall) to inheriting the " Bates Motel" from Norman Bates, "Dogma," "But I'm A Cheerleader," "Pollock" and "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou." In 1991, he wrote, directed and starred in "Ted & Venus." His latest credits were as the voice of the King in 2015's "The Little Prince," and a year later in a short titled "Affections.Nineteen-year-old Harold Chasen is obsessed with death. Two car accidents also didn't help Cort's spirits, or appearance.
The breakout role was both a "blessing and a curse" to Cort, who "didn't make a film purposely for five years after I made that film because everything I got offered was the crazy guy." He actually laid low from the world at Groucho Marx's house for 7 years, where his "fairy godfather" Groucho looked after him, gave him his tooth, and apparently died in his arms. Even Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann named their daughter after Maude (luckily they haven't had a son, yet).
In 1997, it was added to the Library of Congress' National Film Registry, and its influences can be seen and felt in the catalogs of Wes Anderson, Cameron Crowe, Alexander Payne, David O.
Its due may have come late, but today it is considered a classic. And yet, there was a flicker of light in the darkness: The film found its audience between the two coasts of America, playing for hundreds of weeks on end, with one young Minnesotan fan reportedly seeing it 138 times in theaters. They released the dark comedy for Academy Award consideration in late 1971, and although Cort and Gordon were nominated for Golden Globes, the film that Variety said had " all the fun and gaiety of a burning orphanage" was a box office dud. Paramount smelled both a critical and crowd pleasing hit on their hands. Ultimately, they settled on up-and-comer Bud Cort and the ever-blossoming Ruth Gordon, and along with a fantastically varied supporting cast plus a soundtrack including the sweet sounds of Cat Stevens (who was suggested by Elton John), the results are one of the greatest May-December romance films of all time. The search was on to find the perfect actors to portray the star-crossed titular lovers with an affinity for funerals, with the likes of Richard Dreyfuss, Bob Balaban and even Elton John considered for Harold, and Luise Rainer, Pola Negri, and even Agatha Christie for Maude.
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