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Sexual Exploitation
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Best Director | 1963 | George
Best Supporting Actor | 1963
Best Actress Drama | 1963 | Glynis
Best Motion Picture Drama | 1963
Warner Brothers filled the film's male roles with Warner Brothers Television contract leads who received no extra money to do the film.
It is significant, and a bit of a private joke, that Glynis Johns reads a specific Dowson poem because it was from that poem that Margaret Mitchell got the title for "Gone With The Wind" and the director of "The Chapman Report," George Cukor, was the director of Gone with the Wind (1939) before being fired a few weeks into the shoot by producer David O. Selznick.
According to pre-production blurbs in the LA Times, Orson Welles was initial choice to play the title sex researcher (a role that ultimately went to Andrew Duggan), with Janet Leigh and Jayne Mansfield named as two of the female leads.
The poem that Glynis Johns is shown reciting is 'Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae' by Ernest Dowson.
The four women wear the same color outfits throughout the film: the "good" girls, Fonda and Johns, wear white, while the "bad" girls, Bloom and Winters, wear black.
"Naomi Shields: Feed the dog..."
"Dr. George C. Chapman: And I know that if years ago, my wife, would have come to me and told me she was attending a lecture of of this kind, why, I'd have hit the ceiling. I probably would have told her to stick to her washing and ironing. [laughter among the Briarwood Women's Club] Dr. George C. Chapman: While your presence here indicates that your husbands are not as prudish, the fact remains that prudery, in general, is far from dead. In many sections of this country, sex is a secret and shameful function. An unhealthy attitude persists. Too many women suffer from too little knowledge about a subject that occupies a major and crucial part of their lives. Why, as many as four or five out of every ten women, in this room, probably suffer from this lack of knowledge. As a result, their happiness is seriously impaired. The subject of sex remains under the table, the backroom, the back street, suppressed, unknown, and always indecent. My associates and I believe that through our findings these women will come to understand that sex is decent, clean, and dignified."
