This was the only film in which Tony Bennett played a fictional character. In his autobiography, "The Good Life," he states that it was a terrible experience and he never sought future roles. This picture marked his screen debut.
Listed among the Top 10 Best Bad Movies of All Time in "The Official Razzie Movie Guide."
This film opens with footage of stars' arrivals shot outside a mid-1960s Academy Awards ceremony, with the year of the event carefully obscured in all wide angles. One transfer of the film reveals that it is the 37th Academy Awards, held in 1965.
The film had to overdub Joseph Cotten's performance as he was having "denture issues" at this point in his career.
Production files for the movie at the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library show that the budget for celebrity cameos in the movie was large-Hedda Hopper $200,000, Edith Head $107,000, Bob Hope $550,000, Frank Sinatra $100,000 and Nancy Sinatra $10,000. The compensation for the cast of the movie include Stephen Boyd $125,000, Jill St. John $9,000, Tony Bennett $40,000, Elke Sommer $75,000, Eleanor Parker $30,000, Milton Berle $75,000, Edie Adams $10,000.
Peter Lawford: a washed-up actor working as a restaurant host. It wasn't that different from Lawford's real-life situation at the time. After a falling out with Frank Sinatra got him banished from The Rat Pack, Lawford found on-screen work hard to come by.
Edith Head: an Oscar nominee for her costume designs for this film, appears in a scene set at a Hollywood party, when Kay calls Frank to congratulate him on his Oscar nomination, and one other scene.
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