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Damsel In Distress | Love Triangle
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Best Actor in a Supporting Role | 1959 | Burl
Best Supporting Actor | 1959 | Burl
Best Foreign Language Film | 1959 | William
Best Music Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | 1959
Best Film from any Source | 1960 | William
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1959 | William
Box Office Collection 3,500,000 USD
Then US President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave the movie four consecutive showings at the White House and called it "simply the best film ever made. My number one favorite film."
Jean Simmons was so traumatized by the experience making the film that she refused to talk about it for years until an interview in the late 1980s when she revealed, "We'd have our lines learned, then receive a rewrite, stay up all night learning the new version, then receive yet another rewrite the following morning. It made the acting damned near impossible."
Gregory Peck and William Wyler had become friends a few years earlier and got on well while making Roman Holiday (1953), but they clashed repeatedly during filming. After Peck stormed off the set one day following a blazing row, Wyler told the press, "I wouldn't direct Peck again for a million dollars and you can quote me on that." They reconciled three years later, but true to the director's word Wyler and Peck never made another film together.
According to actor Slim Pickens' daughter, her father doubled Gregory Peck in the scene where Peck's character was bucked off the horse. Pickens owned the horse and didn't want anyone else riding it.
Tempers flared on the set between numerous individuals, particularly William Wyler and Charles Bickford, who had fought on the set of Hell's Heroes (1929) years before and were continuing their antagonistic relationship. Wyler liked to shoot numerous retakes and Bickford was very cranky, often refusing to say a line he didn't like or to vary his performance no matter how many takes he was forced to deliver.
"Patricia Terrill: But if he loved me, why would he let me think he was a coward? Julie Maragon: If you love him, why would you think it? How many times does a man have to win you?"
"Buck Hannassey: You want me, Pa? Rufus Hannassey: Before you was born I did."
