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Most Popular Foreign Star | 1960 | Gina
Best Actress International | 1960 | Gina
Budget 5,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 12,200,000 USD
Star and co-producer Tyrone Power had shot more than half of the film when he collapsed from a massive heart attack during a dueling scene with George Sanders on 10 November 1958, and died five days later. Yul Brynner replaced Power as Solomon, and re-shot all of Power's scenes. Power is still visible in some long shots.
Two of the leads, Yul Brynner and George Sanders, were both born in Russia of foreign parents.
Robert Taylor turned down the opportunity to replace Tyrone Power.
Although extremely rare, this is not the only time that a major character had to be recast in a Hollywood film after the filming was almost or entirely completed. For instance, after Ridley Scott's All the Money in the World (2017) was entirely done, the film's major co-star, Kevin Spacey, had to be replaced with Christopher Plummer due to a sex scandal. Save for possibly one or two long shots, all of Spacey's scenes were then reshot in nine days with Plummer. Incidentally, Plummer happened to have been Scott's original choice for Spacey's role. Also, Michael J. Fox had to infamously replace Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly in Back to the Future (1985), even though at least one third of the movie was already completed with Stoltz in the role, because the filmmakers thought that Stoltz's Marty was simply coming off as too serious. Perhaps the most extreme example is the 1967 horror film, Eye of the Devil (1966), where Kim Novak was seriously injured in a riding accident after filming a reported seven-eighths of her leading role in the film. Although she did make a full recovery, she was unable to return to work for many weeks, and the company was obliged to re-film all her scenes and complete the film with Deborah Kerr.
This was the first live action movie to be filmed in Super Technirama 70. Disney's animated Sleeping Beauty (1959) was released first.
"Abishag: How interesting your encampment is. Are your people always so carefree and gay? Sheba: We enjoy life and pleasure. Don't you? Abishag: Yes, we do. But we are an austere people. We tend to be more serious. Sheba: And your king, is he also serious? Abishag: King Solomon has a great responsibility. He must maintain the unity of our twelve tribes. Sheba: It is very important, this unity? Abishag: Oh, yes. Without it, there would be no Israel."
"Pharaoh: And how will you destroy Solomon? Sheba: It is said that Solomon is wise. But no matter how wise he may be, he is still human, with a human weakness. I will sit at the feet of Solomon like the wise men who flock to Jerusalem. And perhaps I will learn from his own lips the way to destroy him. Pharaoh: Surely the way of a woman is beyond understanding. Sheba: The way of a woman is simple, my lord. It is always to follow the way of a man."
