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National Film Preservation Board | 2017
Best Actress | 1951
Best Writing Story and Screenplay | 1952 | Billy
1951 | Billy
Best Classic DVD | 2007
Budget 1,821,052 USD
Box Office Collection 1,300,000 USD
After the film was released, it got bad reviews and lost money. The studio, without Billy Wilder's permission, changed the title to "The Big Carnival" to increase the box office take of the film. It didn't work. On top of that, Wilder's next picture, "Stalag 17 (1953)," was a hit and he expected a share of the picture's profits. Paramount's accountants told him that since this picture lost money, the money it lost would be subtracted from the profits of "Stalag 17".
Billy Wilder's wife Audrey Young came up with the line, "I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons."
In a 1950 memo to Billy Wilder, Kirk Douglas objected to several aspects of Chuck Tatum's monologue about missing New York City: "No pastrami! No garlic pickles! No Madison Square Garden! No Yogi Berra!", among other things. Douglas asked, "... what the hell is a Yogi Berra?". Douglas' secretary, who was amused her boss didn't know who the New York Yankee star was, told him he was a catcher.
Is the second Billy Wilder film to feature a character who works for the fictitious 'Pacific All-Risk Insurance Company', the first being Double Indemnity (1944).
Residents of Gallup, New Mexico, were hired as extras. They were paid 75 cents an hour for a ten-hour day. Extras earned an additional three dollars if they could bring an automobile to the set.
"Charles Tatum: Bad news sells best. Cause good news is no news."
"Charles Tatum: I've done a lot of lying in my time. I've lied to men who wear belts. I've lied to men who wear suspenders. But I'd never be so stupid as to lie to a man who wears both belt and suspenders."
