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Best Actress National | 1967 | Elke
Listed among the Top 10 Best Bad Movies of All Time in "The Official Razzie Movie Guide."
This film opens with footage of stars' arrivals shot outside an actual mid-1960s Academy Awards ceremony, with the year of the event carefully obscured in all wide angles. One transfer of the film reveals that it is the 37th Academy Awards, held in 1965.
This was the only film in which Tony Bennett played a fictional character. In his autobiography, "The Good Life", he states that it was a terrible experience and he never sought future roles.
Peter Lawford's cameo here as a washed-up actor reduced to working as a restaurant host is sadly indicative of Lawford's real life situation at the time. After a falling out with Frank Sinatra got him "banished" from The Rat Pack, Lawford found on-screen work of any kind hard to come by.
Harlan Ellison was so horrified with the results of the final film that he practically wept in the cinema when he saw it.
"Hymie Kelly: [narrating] Man, he wanted to swallow Hollywood like a cat with a canary. And he did it! The parts got bigger, and Frankie was hooked! Like a junkie shooting pure quicksilver into his veins, Frankie got turned on by the wildest narcotic known to man: success! The parts got bigger and bigger... Frankie got hungrier and hungrier."
"Frankie: [referring to Steve Marks] What happened to him? He was a good actor. He made more pictures than I have. Alfred 'Kappy' Kapstetter: This is a chancy business, Frankie. You never know you're on the way out 'til you suddenly realize it would take a ticket to get back in."
