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Budget 5,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 3,000,000 USD
After this movie's first previews, the White House insisted that the footage inserted into this movie from Heidi (1937) be immediately withdrawn. The footage featured Shirley Temple-Black, who at the time was a United States Ambassador.
Raquel Welch later said she was fascinated at working with Mae West, mainly because she could never actually figure out if West was a man or a woman.
Bette Davis emphatically turned down the role of Leticia Van Allen, expressing her contempt for the book.
In a book about the making of this movie, producer David Giler said that he came to the set one day to find out why filming was so far behind schedule and discovered that the entire cast and crew had been kept sitting around most of the day (on full salary) while writer and director Michael Sarne photographed a cake for eight hours. He was also told by cast and crew members that Sarne would go off in a corner and "think" for six to seven hours at a stretch, during which time shooting would come to a standstill. According to Giler, such antics were one of the reasons that this movie went so far over budget, and he and the other producer demanded that the studio fire him, but it was in Sarne's contract that he could not be fired until he turned in the first cut.
It was not so much the box-office failure as the complete and utter critical savaging of this movie - a reception that could only be termed as "disastrous" - that wrecked the careers of writer and director Michael Sarne and Roger Herren. The critical and financial flop also seriously hurt Raquel Welch, who never achieved the true star status that had been predicted for her.
"[Myra talks to talent agent Leticia Van Allen] Myra Breckinridge: You see, Miss Van Allen, Uncle Buck and I deal in myths, and movie stars are like gods and goddesses. When one fades, another promptly takes its place, because the human race require that the Pantheon always be filled. And you and I must seek out the glittering few that are the new stars, of our race, reborn!"
"Leticia Van Allen: How tall are you when you're off your horse, cowboy? Young Man at "Interview": Um, six feet, seven inches, ma'am. Leticia Van Allen: Well, never mind the six feet, and let's talk about the seven inches."
