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Best Music Original Song | 1979
Best Original Song Motion Picture | 1979
Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1979
Best Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1979 | Chevy
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Motion Picture | 1979 | Dudley
Best Motion Picture Acting Debut Male | 1979 | Chevy
Best Screenplay Motion Picture | 1979 | Colin
Best Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1979 | Goldie
Best Motion Picture | 1979 | Colin
Budget 5,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 45,000,000 USD
The film is an homage to the suspense movies of Alfred Hitchcock. The picture was released seven months after Mel Brooks' Hitchcock spoof High Anxiety (1977). Writer and director Colin Higgins previously had written Silver Streak (1976), which was also a Hitchcock-like spoof thriller.
American film debut of Dudley Moore. The success of this movie kick-started Moore's American movie career, with successes such as 10 (1979) and Arthur (1981) following. However, his first film seen in America was Bedazzled (1967) directed and produced by Stanley Donen.
Farrah Fawcett was in line for the role of Gloria. However, the studio opted for Goldie Hawn when Spelling-Goldberg Productions, the producers of Charlie's Angels (1976), warned all the studios that "they would be sued for damages if they employed me," Fawcett told The Associated Press in 1979. She was still under contract with Spelling-Goldberg when she left the show. Farrah can be seen in the background at the party scene where Goldie's character is introduced.
The picture was a box-office hit, being in the U.S.'s top ten grossing films of its year. It was the first hit movie since Shampoo (1975) for Goldie Hawn. The success of the movie enabled Hawn to get Private Benjamin (1980) made.
The movie's theme song "Ready to Take a Chance Again" was a hit and was on the American charts for sixteen weeks and even garnered a Best Song Academy Award nomination. It was sung by Barry Manilow, who also conceived and oversaw its production alongside of Ron Dante. Manilow had another song on the film's soundtrack as well, "Copacabana", which was from Manilow's fourth studio album "Even Now".
"[Ethel and Elsie are playing Scrabble. Ethel has just put down the letters "-ucker", to which Elsie has added "muther-"] Ethel: Wait, Elsie. I think you're wrong. I think you spell that word with a hyphen."
"Fergie: Well, what was he after? Gloria Mundy: He wanted the cigarettes. Fergie: He was after a cigarette? Gloria Mundy: Oh no, he wanted the whole pack. Fergie: Man, talk about greedy."
