{"id":2027283,"date":"2025-09-16T22:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T22:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2027283"},"modified":"2025-09-16T22:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T22:04:11","slug":"remembering-when-robert-redford-came-to-west-palm-to-promote-his-movie-the-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/remembering-when-robert-redford-came-to-west-palm-to-promote-his-movie-the-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering when Robert Redford came to West Palm to promote his movie ‘The Candidate’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robert Redford died Tuesday, Sept. 16, at the age of 89,<\/a> at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah, “the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved. He will be missed greatly,” his rep Cindi Berger told USA TODAY in a statement Tuesday.<\/p>\n

We look back when the Oscar-winning actor spent time in Palm Beach County. To promote his movie, \u201cThe Candidate,\u201d Redford came to West Palm Beach<\/a> in June 1972, speaking from the back of a campaign-style train.<\/p>\n

His audience of 600 young men and women \u2014 described by The Post as \u201cteenyboppers\u201d \u2014 outdrew a recent crowd for a presidential candidate at the time, Sen. Edward Muskie. The liberal movie star said that bothered him: \u201cWhat matters on Election Day is image,\u201d Redford told the crowd at the city\u2019s train station. \u201cWhat does it mean when more people turn out for me than a presidential candidate?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2b50Famous people, celebrities, GOATS:<\/strong>They live or lived in Palm Beach County<\/a><\/p>\n

Remembering when Robert Redford visited West Palm Beach in 1972 to promote his movie ‘The Candidate’<\/h2>\n

Redford, who played California senatorial candidate Bill McKay in the movie, also discussed what he called the negative aspects of political campaigns, saying theatrics obscured meaningful discussion of policy and platforms. The promotion also was used as a voter registration drive, and 200 signed up.<\/p>\n

Redford, flashing a grin and a Nixon-like peace sign, told the crowd during a two-minute speech: \u201cLet me make one thing perfectly clear. I\u2019m not a candidate \u2026 Under no circumstances will I run, unless it is for cover.\u201d The \u201cteenyboppers\u201d groaned in disappointment.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Robert Redford movies: Actor was in West Palm to promote The Candidate<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Redford died Tuesday, Sept. 16, at the age of 89, at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah, “the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved. He will be missed greatly,” his rep Cindi Berger told USA TODAY in a statement Tuesday. We look back when the Oscar-winning actor spent time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1946120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[373102,329925,333528,373457,350233],"class_list":["post-2027283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-cindi-berger","tag-palm-beach-county","tag-robert-redford","tag-teenyboppers","tag-west-palm-beach"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Lloyd-native-nominated-for-6-IBMA-awards.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1946120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}