FILM 1320: AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER
TRIVIA: References to this movie in
Nora Ephron's Sleepless in Seattle
(1993), revitalized interest in the film, and led to 2 million additional sales
of the 1957 classic on VHS.
During filming, Cary Grant's wife, Betsy Drake, had him
visiting a hypnotist to help him quit smoking. She also packed him a hamper
full of health food for his lunch, though he often finished it before starting
filming because without cigarettes he was hungry all the time.
Deborah Kerr's singing was
dubbed by Marni Nixon, who also
dubbed her in The King and
I (1956) the previous year.
During filming cinematographer Milton R. Krasner pointed
out to Cary Grant that a lump on
his forehead was making it hard to film his close-ups. The lump was the result
of a childhood accident, but Grant had been habitually rubbing it for years,
leading it to swell. Doctors told him it would take four to six weeks for him
to recover from its removal. Instead, he took a few days off, had his wife, Betsy
Drake, hypnotize him, and had the procedure performed in the doctor's office
under a local anesthetic. He recovered within days with no scarring.
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