Cactus Flower is a 1969 American screwball comedy film directed by Gene Saks, and starring Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman and Goldie Hawn, who won an Academy Award for her performance.

Toni immediately insists on meeting him, and Julian's friend Harvey is enlisted in the role of Stephanie's boyfriend.

Embracing her newfound confidence, Stephanie finally accepts the overtures of Julian's patient, Señor Arturo Sánchez, a Latin diplomat in the United Nations.

After attending a ball with him in a new evening gown and the mink stole, she invites Sánchez to the club from the previous night, where Toni, Julian and Igor have also returned.

After dancing with gleeful abandon at the club with Igor, Stephanie arrives at work the next morning giddy, still wearing her outfit from the night before.

The film premiered at two locations in New York City, the Paris Theater and Astor Theatre, on Monday, December 15, 1969.

"[3] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3½ stars out of four, and declared that "the chemistry works" and "the movie is better than the play.

"[6] Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "Cactus Flower was a successful Broadway comedy and it translates to the screen quite nicely ...

It is a craftily contrived piece of silliness enacted by competent and attractive people: Laugh In's Goldie Hawn, Walter Matthau and Ingrid Bergman in that order of laudability.

The film score was composed, arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones and featured vocalists Sarah Vaughan and Johnny Wesley.

An unauthorized Hindi version titled Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya?, starring Salman Khan, Sushmita Sen and Katrina Kaif, was released in 2005.

An Egyptian version titled Nos Sa'a Gawaz (Half-Hour Marriage), starring Rushdy Abaza, Shadia and Adel Imam, was released in 1969.