Sony Pictures Entertainment and Columbia Pictures decided to put the project in turnaround, essentially dropping out of the production and distribution obligations, leaving it available for any other studio to pick up. Universal Pictures, in the process, picked up the project, which isn't the first time that Universal has picked up a project put into turnaround by another studio, and the truth is that they are just coming off a very successful version of this maneuver. Dumb and Dumber To (2014) was originally set up at Warner Brothers, before being dropped, and Universal swooped in to make sure that the film got made. This paid off big, as the comedy opened to a solid thirty-six million dollars in its first three days. Picking up discarded projects hasn't always worked for the studio. Case in point: Kick-Ass 2 (2013), but there exists plenty of potential in the Steve Jobs biopic, and Universal seems to see it.
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This was her first of Shirley MacLaine's two consecutive films to wind up with her cavorting under an oil gusher; she did the same thing in the climax to her next movie, John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965).
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Fred MacMurray was originally announced to play a sixth husband, a role cut from the script before shooting began.
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Frank Sinatra was the first choice to play Rod Anderson. When Darryl F. Zanuck balked at his salary demand, Robert Mitchum agreed to play the role at no fee for tax purposes.
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Initially intended as a vehicle for Marilyn Monroe. Producer Arthur P. Jacobs was her publicist, and J. Lee Thompson was on her list of approved directors.
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Numerous references to Cleopatra (1963) appear throughout, possibly a result of Elizabeth Taylor being attached to the film before MacLaine. At Hop Hop Hopper's big store opening, the "Cleopatra" album is on sale.When Pinky Benson achieves stardom, he acts as Marc Antony and a staffer says, "to think they wanted that Welshman"--a reference to Richard Burton, originally from Wales, who played Marc Antony in "Cleopatra".At Pinky's movie premiere, the reporter is saying, "Flaming Lips is bigger than 'Cleopatra'."
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Steve McQueen was originally mentioned to play one of the husbands.
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Final film of Margaret Dumont.
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The set used as Luisa and Pinky Benson's Hollywood mansion was originally used as the home for the characters played by Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin's in the unfinished 1962 Twentieth Century-Fox film "Something's Got To Give", which was modeled on director George Cukor's private Hollywood home.
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Early in the film Shirley MacLaine has a line involving money in which she says, "It's like exorcising an evil spirit". MacLaine later appeared in the supernatural film The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972) and was William Peter Blatty's original choice for the role of Chris in The Exorcist (1973).
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Feature debut of Pamelyn Ferdin.
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Shirley MacLaine is quoted as saying she was happy to work with Edith Head, with a $500,000.00 budget, 72 hairstyles to match the gowns, and $3.5-million gem collection, on-loan from Harry Winston. The value of the gems alone (adjusted for inflation) would be $23.5 million (in 2016).
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There is a reference to Shirley MacLaine's Irma la Douce (1963) in the scene where Louisa arrives in Paris. On the bus, she passes "Maxim's", which is featured prominently in the beginning montage of "Irma la Douce".
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When Elizabeth Taylor was still attached to the project (then titled "I Love Louisa"), actors sought to play her husbands included Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis--none of whom appeared in the final film.
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Final film of Tom Conway.
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Producer Arthur P. Jacobs wanted Charlton Heston. In his diaries, Heston says that it was for the Paul Newman role.
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The beatnik artist Polly appears to be a parody/caricature of Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle, aka "Niki" de Saint Phalle, whose various "shooting" paintings arrived on the art scene in mid-1961, when the script for the film was first being written. Niki didn't have Polly's Beretta M1938A submachine gun, though; she used a .22 rifle borrowed from her future husband, Jean Tinguely.
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Following the death of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor was briefly attached to the film before Shirley MacLaine got the part.
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The machine that Dick Van Dyke uses right before his character dies is the same machine, EMERAC, used in Desk Set (1957), with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. You can see the blank space where it says "The End" because at the end of "Desk Set", EMERAC displays the last scene with the words "The End".
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As a running gag that Larry Flint (Paul Newman) is a starving painter, in all his scenes he is eating something.
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What a Way to Go! - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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