3/28/2023 0 Comments Sleepless in seatle sound![]() ![]() Jim was sorting through the piles of mail when he came across rita’s letter her Groucho glasses caught his eye. He was organizing them into piles – one stack represented those he would send a postcard to and the other stack was for those he would respond to with a letter. But then, during his annual Boeing Christmas hiatus, he decided to take another look. After his date filmed for the Oprah show, as well as other dates that people kept setting up for him, he had stopped reading through the letters. ![]() Jim received an overwhelming 10,000 letters. That is the photo the ever-whimsical rita sent. “But it isn’t a big risk,” thought rita, “what are the chances he’ll even see my letter?” rita didn’t have many recent photos to include with her letter, but she did have one where she was wearing Groucho Marx glasses. She was both moved and daunted Jim’s wife was a doctor (psychiatrist) who played ten musical instruments. But mostly she was moved by the story he told of his late wife. She noticed Boeing engineer Jim Schwarting right away because he was very tall (6’4”) and his career sounded interesting. She was one of those thousands of women who had written to the men. None of the dates turned into relationships.Įnter rita ann (small r, small a) of Santa Cruz County, California. Within a week or so, Oprah drove a forklift onto the set carrying thousands upon thousands of letters from women wanting to meet the widowers.Įach of the men chose someone from the mountain of letters to go on a date with, which was filmed for a later Oprah show. It was one of the most popular shows of the season and in a case of life imitating art, the response was overwhelming. Oprah invited women viewers to write in asking to meet the men. Later that same year, triggered by the movie’s success, the Oprah Winfrey Show asked five men from the Seattle area who had lost their wives to cancer to tell their stories. Meg Ryan plays one of thousands of women who were so moved by the grieving man’s story that they write the radio station asking to meet him. It starred Tom Hanks as a recently widowed man whose 8-year-old son calls a radio talk show to help find his father a wife. The year was 1993 and Sleepless in Seattle was a blockbuster hit movie. How does an artistic free spirit from California and a logical engineer from the Northwest meet and fall in love? Courtesy of the Oprah Winfrey Show, thank you. ![]()
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