Blume in Love

Susan Anspach as Nina, wife of the divorce-lawyer title character (George Segal), in her job at the California welfare office, in writer-director Paul Mazursky’s non-linear narrative, meeting Kris Kristofferson as Elmo, then a clever edit to Shelley Winters as an aggrieved client, early in Blume In Love, 1973.

Writer-director Paul Mazursky as Kurt, L-A divorce-law partner of the title character George Segal, suddenly facing his own divorce after being caught in an affair with his secretary Gloria (Annazette Chase), in his acclaimed comic-drama Blume In Love, also starring Susan Anspach and Kris Kristofferson.

Writer-director Paul Mazursky’s opening, with the familiar tune by the Milanese composer Ponchielli, with George Segal the title character, narrating his thoughts over shots of Venice’s Piazza San Maro, Susan Anspach as his ex-wife introduced near the end, in Blume In Love, 1973, co-starring Kris Kristofferson and Marsha Mason.