Video: 'Being There' trailer

(Thursday, December 20, 1979, 12:00 p.m. EST) — Political pundits mistake an illiterate gardener for a media genius and turn him into a national hero in Being There, an American comedy-drama film that opened today at The Coronet in Manhattan in New York City.

Directed by Hal Ashby, the film starred Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Dysart and Richard Basehart.