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Dame Elizabeth Taylor remained seated for most of her performance and was wheeled onto the set in a chair. "I can't walk a long distance, so everybody sees me in a wheelchair and thinks I'm sick", she told TV Guide. "If you had broken your back three times, you couldn't stand very long (either)."
In 1959, in one of the biggest scandals to hit Hollywood up to that time, beloved couple Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds divorced when Fisher left Reynolds for Dame Elizabeth Taylor. Although Reynolds and Taylor reconciled many years later, this movie marked the first time they had acted in a scene together since before that scandal.
Shirley MacLaine said of the shoot, "It was my best time ever in making a film." She went on to claim that none of the actresses were ever late to the set, "not even Elizabeth" and they worked from 5 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. every day.
This movie, written by Carrie Fisher, contains one actress who was Fisher's mother (Debbie Reynolds), one who was her ex-stepmother (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), and one (Shirley MacLaine) who played the mother of a character based upon her in Postcards from the Edge (1990) (also written by Fisher).
Even with the stars attached, Dame Elizabeth Taylor and Carrie Fisher couldn't get any studios interested in shooting the script as a feature film. Fisher remarked that studio executives believed the only audience the movie would attract is "a group of seniors huddled around the television at the nursing home."
"Kate Westbourne: I know a friend who lipoed her stomach once. A few months later, she looked like Jabba the Hutt. Miriam: Who's Jabba the Hutt? Addie Holden: It's a sea slug, Mummy, from outer space and it's not a compliment."
"Addie Holden: The man died literally on top of me. Piper Grayson: Isn't it what most men want - to die in the saddle? Addie Holden: It is not that great for the saddle."
