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Based On Play Or Musical | Mexico
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Best Costume Design BlackandWhite | 1965
Best Actress | 1964 | Ava
Best Actress in a Supporting Role | 1965 | Grayson
Best Cinematography BlackandWhite | 1965
Best Art DirectionSet Decoration BlackandWhite | 1965 | Stephen B.
Best Director | 1965 | John
Best Supporting Actor | 1965
Best Actress Drama | 1965 | Ava
Best Motion Picture Drama | 1965
Best Supporting Actress | 1965 | Grayson
Best Foreign Actress | 1965 | Ava
Best Written American Drama | 1965 | John
Drama | 1965
Supporting Performance Female | 1965 | Grayson
Dramatic Performance Female | 1965 | Deborah
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1965 | John
Budget 3,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 12,000,000 USD
At the time of filming it attracted more attention for its location dramas than for what happened on screen. At the time Liz Taylor was living with Richard Burton, whose agent was her previous husband, Michael Wilding. Ava Gardner's old friend Peter Viertel was around with being married to co star Deborah Kerr. It was for this reason that John Huston, recognising that there might be some good fights, gave all the cast gold plated guns.
Burt Lancaster turned down the lead part because he felt it was too similar to his role in Elmer Gantry (1960).
According to one of the biographies of Tennessee Williams, "The Kindness of Strangers," by Donald Spoto, the character of Maxine, who is portrayed in this film by Ava Gardner, was purportedly based upon Williams' landlady of the apartment he rented in Santa Monica while he was working at MGM Studios in the 1940s. Her mannerisms, attitudes and even her distinctive one-syllable laugh were detailed by Williams and are expertly performed by Gardner.
Ava Gardner kept changing one of her lines in the film from "In a pig's eye, you are!" to "In a pig's ass, you are!", much to the delight of the rest of the cast and crew, including director John Huston.
Nearly half of the film's $3 million budget went to pay the three major stars' salaries: Richard Burton ($750,000), Ava Gardner ($400,000) and Deborah Kerr ($250,000).
"T. Lawrence Shannon: Miss Fellowes is a highly moral person. If she ever recognized the truth about herself it would destroy her."
"Hannah Jelkes: Who wouldn't like to atone for the sins of themselves, and the world, if it could be done in a hammock with ropes, instead of on a Cross, with nails? On a green hilltop, instead of Golgotha, the Place of the Skulls? Isn't that a comparatively comfortable, almost voluptuous Crucifixion to suffer for the sins of the world, Mr. Shannon?"
