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Top Female Supporting Performance | 1959
Top Score | 1959 | Elmer
Top Male Dramatic Performance | 1959 | Frank
Best Music Original Song | 1959
Best Costume Design BlackandWhite or Color | 1959
Best Actress in a Supporting Role | 1959
Best Actor in a Supporting Role | 1959 | Arthur
Best Actress in a Leading Role | 1959 | Shirley
Best Actress Drama | 1959 | Shirley
Top Drama | 1959
Top Song | 1959
Top Male Supporting Performance | 1959 | Arthur
Top Female Dramatic Performance | 1959 | Shirley
Best Film | 1958 | Vincente
Shirley MacLaine thought that Dean Martin turned in his best ever performance, because "he was a lot like Bama, a loner with his own code of ethics who would never compromise, so maybe it wasn't really a performance."
Vincente Minnelli and Frank Sinatra clashed famously during the filming of the climactic carnival scene. Minnelli took too much time setting up a shot with a Ferris wheel and then decided to move the giant wheel, instead of moving the camera, to get the effect he wanted. Then, according to Shirley MacLaine, "Frank bolted toward his limo, dove into it headfirst, and ordered the driver to the airport. He went back to Los Angeles, and Dean went with him." Minnelli defended his actions in his autobiography: "Folklore suggests that the Ferris wheel had to be moved three inches to satisfy my esoteric tastes. The reason for the move was somewhat more practical. The camera wouldn't pick it up in the long shots unless it was moved six feet. It was important that the Ferris wheel be seen from all angles, since it was the focal point of the scene."
According to Shirley MacLaine, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin did not get along with Vincente Minnelli. They disliked the way that Minnelli directed scenery instead of directing actors.
The movie occasionally still plays at the Ohio Theatre in Madison, Indiana. The theatre and the building next to it appear in some of the final scenes of the movie. Curiously, the movie on the marquee is Elizabeth Taylor in Courage of Lassie, a 1946 release from MGM, which would have already been two years old at the time the story's taking place (1948).
It was during the making of this film that Shirley MacLaine found herself welcomed into what would later be called the "Rat Pack" fraternity that included Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, her co-stars in this film. MacLaine says the group known as the "Rat Pack" was actually called "The Clan" by the members while "Rat Pack" was a term given in the 1950s to Humphrey Bogart and his pals by Lauren Bacall.
"Frank Hirsh: Made up your mind what you're gonna do, now that you're out of the army? Dave Hirsh: Sure, never to go in it again."
"Bama Dillert: I don't know what it is about them pigs, but they always look better at night."
