Body Double - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[claude]

Model and actress Deborah Shelton received two scenes from director Brian De Palma from two films for her to rehearse for her audition. They were from Lawrence Kasdan's Body Heat (1981) and Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage (1973) ["Scenes from a Marriage"].

[ken]

Melanie Griffith was once married to actor Steven Bauer who had recently starred in director Brian De Palma's Scarface (1983) and the pair had known each other prior to Body Double (1984) because of this marriage. Bauer and Griffith were married when the movie was made and both have worked with director de Palma on more than one occasion.

[jessie]

The controversial murder-by-huge-drill scene was often critically read as a phallic substitute. It actually came about because de Palma reasoned that in order for the visual of the bloody drill bursting through the ceiling to work, it had to be shown to be long enough to do so.

[ronnie]

Appropriately, in this movie about pornography and the adult film industry, many of the actors have appeared nude or semi-nude in the past, either in TV shows or movies. Craig Wasson appeared naked in 1981's Ghost Story, Melanie Griffith appears nude in this and topless in 1986'6 Something Wild. Deborah Shelton has appeared in movies semi nude before, as has Stephen Bauer, and Dennis Franz famously bared it all on NYPD. Michael Kearns, who is credited as Male Porn Star, was infact, a real male porn star.