Jane Fonda accosts Robert Redford, who died Tuesday at age 89 , in a scene from “Barefoot in the Park.”

With flattery.

“You’re always dressed right, you always look right, you always say the right thing,” she runs down in the 1967 comedy.

“You’re very nearly perfect.” 4

Believe it or not, her Greenwich Village character Corie is venting her frustrations. Redford’s Paul, her stiff new husband, is too “proper and dignified” for her free-spirited tastes.

But it was Redford’s good looks and soothing, smokey voice — not to mention his direct and unfussy acting style — that set him apart in then-gritty Hollywood and helped make him the No. 1 star at the box office for three years in the 1970s.

His undeniable genetic gifts, however, were really just a useful key that opened a door to

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