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Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture Male | 1977 | Truman
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen | 1977 | Neil
Favorite Movie | 1977 | Maggie
Box Office Collection 32,511,047 USD
The screaming woman sound used as a doorbell is Fay Wray's screams from King Kong (1933). Her unique scream has made her known as the "Scream Queen" of movies.
Immediately after completing this movie, Peter Sellers was so convinced it was going to bomb, he convinced the producers to buy back his percentage share in the movie.
''We should have taped the first read-through of the script and released it as a comedy album. It was a classic", reported many of the production personnel after first rehearsal session together of the cast and crew. According to writer Neil Simon, "the first reading is where I see what works and what doesn't. It was the best one I've ever witnessed for any of my plays or films." Simon was on the set of this movie every day.
Peter Sellers reportedly played several practical jokes on cast and crew during filming, including once calling Neil Simon up and imitating co-star Sir Alec Guinness and demanding a rewrite of a key scene in the middle of the night. Neither Guinness nor Simon were amused.
Theatrical movie debut of James Cromwell (Marcel Cassette), who had previously starred only in a few television series. Cromwell went on to become an extremely prolific thespian, with more than one hundred eighty acting credits.
"Sam Diamond: Locked, from the inside. That can only mean one thing. And I don't know what it is."
"Sam Diamond: The last time that I trusted a dame was in Paris in 1940. She said she was going out to get a bottle of wine. Two hours later, the Germans marched into France."
