But Haight-Ashbury and the Summer of Love figure only as a background in this story of establishment figures : George C. Scott as Archie , a divorced physician ; Julie Christie as Petulia , a bored young socialite ; and Richard Chamberlain as Petulia 's husband -- the son of a San Francisco burgher -LRB- Joseph Cotton -RRB- -- who is driven to fits of violence by the impossibility of living with his own apparent physical perfection .
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Haight-Ashbury
PERSON
George C. Scott
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Archie
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Julie Christie
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Petulia
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Richard Chamberlain
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Petulia
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San Francisco
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Joseph Cotton