Film
924: The Odd Couple
Trivia: Billy Wilder was going to direct and write the screenplay
at one point.
Walter Matthau, who played Oscar in both the original
Broadway play and the movie, asked the play's author, Neil Simon, if he could play Felix instead. This was
because Matthau thought Oscar's personality was too similar to his own and the
role would be too easy; whereas playing the persnickety Felix would be a real
acting challenge. Simon replied, "Walter, go and be an actor in somebody
else's play. Please be Oscar in mine." Matthau finally agreed to it.
Monica Evans and Carole Shelley also reprise their roles in Disney's The AristoCats as a pair of English geese on a walking
tour of France.
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