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London, England | Suspicion
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Best Costume Design Color | 1961
Best Actress Drama | 1961 | Doris
Best Actress International | 1961 | Doris
Box Office Collection 7,400,000 USD
In her autobiography, Doris Day wrote that to prepare herself for one of the terror scenes, she recalled a time when her first husband, trombonist Al Jorden, dragged her out of bed when she was ill and pregnant and hurled her against a wall. Day related that in the scene she wasn't acting hysterical, she was hysterical, and at the end of the take, she collapsed in a real faint. She was carried to her dressing room, and Producer Ross Hunter shut down production for a few days while she recovered.
Doris Day vowed to never make another thriller after this movie, claiming it emotionally drained her. She stayed true to her word. Until her retirement eight years later, the only movies she made were comedies.
Dictating his memoirs near the end of his life, Sir Rex Harrison barely mentioned this movie, except to say that he wasn't fond of the script. He also (falsely) reported that Doris Day was under so much pressure to make the picture work that she collapsed. Day was indeed under strain, though it was due to her personal form of method acting that caused her breakdown, not from the script or the production.
The white gown that Doris Day wore is the same dress she wore to The 32nd Annual Academy Awards (1960), where she was Oscar-nominated for her performance in Pillow Talk (1959).
Myrna Loy recalled that in the scene where Doris Day becomes hysterical on a staircase after one of her tormentor's taunting phone calls, Day was so overwrought with emotion that when Director David Miller called "Cut!", Day could not stop crying, and had to be all but carried to her dressing room.
"Charles Manning: There's nothing wrong about money that having it can't cure."
"Inspector Byrnes: You know, sometimes I think the Blitz left us with more derelict minds than derelict buildings."
