Cleopatra appearing from an unrolled carpet is based on accepted history. Most versions have Cleopatra being presented to Caesar in this unusual manner on his state visit, but the only historical account (by Cassius Dio) states that Cleopatra hid in the carpet to escape from Egyptian rebels under the command of her sister Arsinoe who were besieging her and Caesar in her palace.
Captain Newman, M.D. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Tony Curtis and Larry Storch again played rivals in "The Great Race" (1965).
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A pilot for a TV show, Captain Newman, M.D. (1972), was made in 1972, starring Jim Hutton and Joan Van Ark, but it was not picked up by the networks.
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In this film, Gregory Peck plays a psychiatrist with the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II, who helps airmen who have had mental breakdowns. In Twelve O'Clock High (1949), Peck himself played a U.S. Army Air Force general in World War II, who suffered a mental breakdown.
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Features Bobby Darin's only Oscar nominated performance.
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Author Leo Rosten based the character of Captain Josiah Newman on his friend, Captain Ralph Greenson, a U.S. Army psychiatrist who worked with traumatized airmen during World War II, and was one of the first to identify the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder following combat.
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The film was a box-office flop.
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Gregory Peck and Robert Duvall appeared in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962).
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Ralph Greenson, the real life psychiatrist on whom Captain Newman was based, was Marilyn Monroe's psychotherapist after the war.
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Gregory Peck and Eddie Albert had previously played friends in "Roman Holiday" (1953).
Captain Newman, M.D. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Captain Newman, M.D. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Captain Newman, M.D. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Captain Newman, M.D. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Captain Newman, M.D. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Captain Newman, M.D. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Captain Newman, M.D. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Captain Newman, M.D. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Captain Newman, M.D. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Captain Newman, M.D. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Captain Newman, M.D. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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