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Fairy Tale | Family
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Best Fantasy Film | 1977
Budget 12,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 3,500,000 USD
Director George Cukor told the Soviet studio head how honored he was to be filming in the same studio where Sergei Eisenstein had filmed Battleship Potemkin (1925). "Yes", said the studio head, "and with the very same equipment."
According to Cicely Tyson, director George Cukor accused her of jinxing this movie by using voodoo magic. Relations between Tyson and Cukor eventually deteriorated to the point where, when Tyson would arrive on-set in the morning, she would ask - referring to Cukor - "Is he dead yet?"
James Coco, originally cast as Dog, couldn't eat Russian food. The only local fare he could stomach was bread and butter. He wound up gaining so much weight his costume no longer fit, he suffered a gall bladder attack and eventually had to be replaced by George Cole. Coco later said, "They tell us it (the movie) will finish by August, but not by August of what year. I understand (Dame) Elizabeth (Taylor) is having Christmas cards printed."
Columnist Rex Reed was a visitor to the trouble-plagued set. Upon greeting Dame Elizabeth Taylor for the first time, Reed asked Taylor how she was holding up under pressure. "I've been through it all, baby", she told him. "I'm Mother Courage."
The pigeon handlers were actually accused of eating some of them.
"Tylette: I love you both as much as you deserve."
