Producer and director John Huston offered William Holden and Robert Mitchum the role of Major Weldon Penderton.
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This women's wrestling picture was the second sports-themed film by director Robert Aldrich. Seven years earlier, he had directed the prison football film The Longest Yard (1974).
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When she first met director Robert Aldrich for testing, Laurene Landon mistook him for Robert Altman. Aldrich was reportedly not too amused.
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The picture's title was changed from ...All the Marbles (1981) to "The California Dolls" for overseas release because the phrase is an American idiom, not well-known elsewhere.
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Final film of director Robert Aldrich. After this picture wrapped, Aldrich had surgery which ended in fatal kidney failure. Aldrich had been planning a sequel.
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Chick Hearn: The Los Angeles sportscaster as the announcer for the big match at the end.
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Harry Sears (Peter Falk)' Cadillac has custom California license plates; "TAG TEAM".
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The film promotes the idea of (female) wrestling being 'real', as said by the Toledo Tigers' manager (after the Dolls' first match with them); "nobody's supposed to win!"
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This was the 7th (and final) picture actor Richard Jaeckel made with director Robert Aldrich. The others include; Attack (1956), and Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977). They also collaborated on Four Star Playhouse: The Squeeze (1953) for television
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Joe Greene: Former Pittsburgh Steeler, Joe Greene (aka, 'mean Joe'), who had retired the year this film was made.
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At the time of initial release, in the US, the film was considered a box office flop, but did reasonably well abroad. The film was originally planned as being the first part of a 2-picture story, with the sequel to be predominantly centred - and shot - in Japan, but due to the death of Robert Aldrich, this never happened.
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The male lead was originally written for Paul Newman.
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Reportedly, the auditioning for the film's casting the 2 female leads was an arduous process.
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Both Toledo Tigers' Ursaline Bryant, and their manager, John Hancock, appeared in episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) in command roles, and both episodes dealt with issues about conspiracy; Ms Bryant played Capt. Tryla Scott in Star Trek: The Next Generation: Conspiracy (1988), and Mr Hancock was Admiral Haden in Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Defector (1990). He was also in Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Wounded (1991) (which wasn't about conspiracy).
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Breakthrough film role and first major film role of actress Laurene Landon.
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The film's wrestling match finale runs for 20 minutes, and was staged at the MGM, in Reno, Nevada. Even though the film was an MGM (film studio) release, contrary to common misperception, the 2 businesses are not (nor were they ever) connected. (Previous) studio owner, Kirk Kerkorian used the studio's name and applied it to his already-established gaming business.
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Part of a cycle of sports-themed films, initiated by the box-office and critical success of the award-winning film Rocky (1976). Amongst them were The Prize Fighter (1979), The Greatest (1977), Body and Soul (1981), Every Which Way but Loose (1978), and Any Which Way You Can (1980).
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Legendary female wrestler Mildred Burke, along with 2 of her pupils (who appear in the first match while the credits roll), trained the 2 leads for several weeks. After intensive work, Laurene Landon and Vicki Frederick were able to perform the wrestling action without doubles.
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One of the most popular wrestlers from "GLOW: Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling" first and second seasons was named The California Doll after this movie.
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Kathleen Turner auditioned to be one of the female wrestlers.
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