How was Ava G. Lorne G's 'daughter' in this fick..?
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fiftyfootqueenie — 11 years ago(May 10, 2014 01:42 PM)
She wasn't trying to kid anyone - she only did the film cos she needed to spend a summer in LA and she was running out of money. According to her biographer, someone asked her if the part was any good and she said "Nah, just some goddamned old broad.'
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InherentlyYours — 9 years ago(October 06, 2016 11:49 PM)
There was something going with Mark Robson during this time: he made a couple of decent flicks after this, but made Valley of the Dolls before (with a miscast Duke) He must have seen that Gardner/Lorne were not a match.
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spookyrat1 — 9 years ago(October 07, 2016 12:28 AM)
My theory is that they just wanted to whack in as many "names" as they could in spite of the "demands" of the storyline. Lorne Green of Bonanza fame was well known for his arguably prematurely grey hair and the producers just figured they could get away with casting Ava as his daughter. Trouble is, she looked all of her 50 plus years and virtually the same age as Lorne, creating this rather comical father/daughter mismatch.
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memorable-name — 9 years ago(October 10, 2016 11:18 AM)
Ava Gardner was a last minute replacement and so everyone else had probably been cast, they originally wanted Audrey Hepburn but she turned it down saying it was to physical and not a decent enough script.
I think Ava is quite good in her role, sure it's nothing great but she plays a bitch well, plus if she hadn't of made this would she have gone on to make the erm masterpieces that were The Cassandra Crossing and City On Fire! lol.
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