NoShear, thanks for starting this thread.
There is something about KLUTE and some observations about the name of Jane Fonda's character in that movie that I've wanted to post about for awhile, but I didn't want to post it in one of the general topic threads because I knew that it would ultimately get buried.
But I also didn't know if it was a discussion that warranted its own thread.
Now that there's a thread with "Bree Daniels" in the title, I will post my comments here.
Has anyone else ever noticed the inconsistency of the surname of Jane Fonda's character Bree in KLUTE?
The character's name appears as "Bree Daniel" [no "s" at the end] in the closing credits, but she is usually referred to as "Bree Daniel
s" [with a final "s"] in the actual movie.
To my knowledge, the only character who ever refers to her as "Bree Daniel" [no "s'] is John Klute, the detective played by Donald Sutherland.
And, even he uses "Daniels" [with the 's"] at least once.
In the closing credits, the name appears as "Bree Daniel":
When Klute first tries to question Bree, he says "“Miss Daniel, my name is Klute. John Klute,” and when she's evasive he says “You know what I’m talking about, Miss Daniel” :
However, in a later scene, Bree answers the phone with "Bree Daniels?":
When Klute is trying to get the suspected murderer to tip their hand he claims to have learned that one of the victims had a "little black book [that] contained name of the client who beat up Bree Daniel":
When Bree is waiting for her psychiatrist to come to the office, the receptionist says to her to her “Mrs. Daniels, I have to close up now. Leave your name and number . . .":
When Bree visits the office of Mr. Goldfarb, an elderly client, she asks the secretary (played by Jean Stapleton), "Did he leave a message for me? Bree Daniels?":
At Mr. Goldfarb's office, Bree calls her psychiatrist's service and asks "Hello, this is Bree Daniels, has the doctor checked in?":
When Klute calls the psychiatrist's office trying to locate Bree, he says "“I’m trying to locate a Miss Bree Daniels.” {I think this is the only time that he uses "Daniels" with the final "s"]:
And . . . in the final scene, just before the credits roll, Bree answers the phone "Bree Daniels?":
This is just before the character is listed as Bree Daniel [without the "s"] in the credits . . .