![]() ![]() ![]() Following a positive experience on Herbie Rides Again, she went on to make two more films for Disney: One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975) and Candleshoe (1977). Thanks to her Academy Award- winning performance in Airport (1970), theater Grand Dame Helen Hayes was enjoying a revitalized career as a film star at the age of 74 when she got the role of Mrs. Veteran Disney director Robert Stevenson ( Old Yeller, Mary Poppins ), who guided The Love Bug to box office success, makes Herbie Rides Again a fun fast-paced charmer. ![]() Steinmetz fight back - all with Herbie's help, of course. Steinmetz's beautiful granddaughter Nicole (Stefanie Powers), he decides to switch sides. In an effort to intimidate her, Hawk sends his fresh-out-of-law-school nephew, Willoughby Whitfield (Ken Berry), to persuade her to vacate. Steinmetz refuses to sell her property, Hawk pulls out all the stops to drive her out. Greedy developer Alonzo Hawk (Keenan Wynn) is buying up all the land surrounding the firehouse with the intention of building Hawk Plaza, the latest in his series of eyesore skyscrapers taking over the city by the bay. Steinmetz (Helen Hayes), a feisty widow who lives in her late husband's quaint old San Francisco firehouse. ![]() Retired from his racing days in The Love Bug, Herbie now leads a low key life in the care of elderly Mrs. Herbie, the lovable VW Beetle with a mind of its own, is back in Herbie Rides Again (1974), the first sequel to Disney's 1968 smash hit film The Love Bug. ![]()
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