Movie |
Chicago, Illinois | Musical
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Best Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1982 | Bernadette
Best Cinematography | 1982 | Gordon
Best Cinematography | 1982 | Gordon
Best Sound | 1982
Best Writing Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | 1982 | Dennis
Best Costume Design | 1982 | Bob
Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1982
Best Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1982 | Steve
Budget 22,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 9,171,289 USD
Christopher Walken's bar-top dance scene took two months of rehearsal and two days of shooting. He claims he got compliments later from fans Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.
When asked in Rolling Stone about the film's box-office failure, Steve Martin said: "I'm disappointed that it didn't open as a blockbuster and I don't know what's to blame, other than it's me and not a comedy. I must say that the people who get the movie, in general, have been wise and intelligent; the people who don't get it are ignorant scum."
At least four paintings are recreated as "tableaux vivants" in the film: "Hudson Bay Fur Company" (1932) and "20 Cent Movie" (1936), both by Reginald Marsh, and "New York Movie" (1939) and "Nighthawks" (1942), both by Edward Hopper. Three of the four were painted after 1934, when the movie takes place, and all depict scenes in New York, not Chicago, the setting of the movie. Turner Classic Movies uses the "Fur Company" and "Nighthawks" shots in their "Open All Night" interstitial.
The "pennies" that are seen raining down from heaven were penny sized sequins. After filming, they blew out the stage door, and could be found in the corners in the streets at MGM studios for almost a year.
Around the time that this movie was made and released, the film's two lead stars Bernadette Peters and Steve Martin were in a personal relationship.
"Joan Parker: [referring to Arthur's male organ, after discovering he's having an affair] Cut his thing off. [the detective shows a look of shock and disgust] Joan Parker: I want them to cut his thing off and bury it!"
"Mr. Warner: I am not, I hope, a blasphemous man, Eileen, but I often think the picture of Eve we are given in Genesis is not altogether a fair one. Indeed, when I look about and even into my own heart, I think it is much, much more likely it was Adam who offered the fruit to Eve."
