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Based On Novel Or Book | 18th Century
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Best Actress in a Supporting Role Motion Picture | 1978 | Ann-Margret
Best Costume Design | 1978
There are several similarities between Tom Jones (1963) and this movie. Writer and Director Tony Richardson once said of this: "I didn't try to avoid these similarities. But on the other hand, I haven't used a lot of the devices I used in Tom Jones (1963), like narration and speeded-up sequences. I haven't used the same kind of tricks, because I'm not trying to repeat anything."
Swedish actress Ann-Margret had to learn a "British" accent to play Lady Booby alias"Belle".
Theatrical movie debut of Dame Penelope Wilton (Mrs. Wilson).
Making this film some 14 years after "Tom Jones", Tony Richardson was persuaded to hire Hugh Griffith, who had scored a great personal success (and an Oscar nomination) in the earlier film, to play a brief cameo. In the intervening years, however, Griffith's legendary fondness for alcohol had degenerated into a chronic condition which would kill him in 1980, and Richardson was, he later wrote, shocked by his appearance and condition. Without alcohol, Griffith could not perform at all; but if he had even a small amount, he became incoherent, slurred and unpredictable. Compromising, Richardson fed him a tablespoon of brandy before each take, which he estimated was just about as much as Griffith could safely take.
This movie was an unrelated follow-up to the Academy Award Best Picture Winning movie Tom Jones (1963). This movie, another bawdy period comedy, had the same Director, Tony Richardson, and other common cast and crew, and was also based on a novel by Henry Fielding. Fielding wrote the book seven years before he wrote "Tom Jones".
