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Film Noir | Mistaken Identity
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Jane Russell reports that director Josef von Sternberg was nasty to the crew, and would make insulting remarks about her and Robert Mitchum to each other, such as "what are we going to do with this beautiful stupid girl." Although Sternberg threatened Mitchum that he could be put off the picture, in the end it was the director who was replaced by Nicholas Ray.
Gloria Grahame did not want to be in this movie; Howard Hughes admitted that he never saw her previous performance opposite Humphrey Bogart in the film In a Lonely Place (1950), which is today unanimously considered among her finest performances. When Grahame asked to be loaned out to make George Stevens's A Place in the Sun (1951), Hughes turned down her request and forced her to make this movie (she reportedly dryly told her then-husband and uncredited director Nicholas Ray, who she was in the process of divorcing, that she wouldn't ask for alimony if he could get her out of this movie). Grahame later stated that she intentionally over-acted out of hatred for Hughes.
Both Joyce Mackenzie and Jane Greer were considered for the part eventually played by Gloria Grahame, wife of uncredited co-director Nicholas Ray.
After rough-cut screenings and a preview in Pasadena, California, executive producer Samuel Bischoff ordered extensive retakes. Director Josef von Sternberg refused to make them, so Robert Stevenson directed the retakes done in February 1951 and Nicholas Ray directed the additional scenes and retakes that were done in July and August of 1951. Mel Ferrer also directed one day of shooting in July 1951 as well.
Jane Russell states in her autobiography that, during the shooting of Macao (1952), the director Josef von Sternberg told eating was forbidden on the set for the crew. But that did not prevent Robert Mitchum from bringing a basket of food every day for the technicians and actors.
"Margie: [to Nick Cochran] You're up early for a loser."
"Halloran: You don't want that junk. Diamonds would only cheapen you. Margie: Yeah. But what a way to be cheapened."
