FILM 1257: WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
TRIVIA: The original screenplay was
about a woman in a coma and a man pretending to be her fiancé. Many studio
executives thought this to be too predatory, but one suggested reversing the
roles. Once the script was rewritten, the movie was picked up by Hollywood
Pictures.
The word "fiancée" has
three acceptable pronunciations in English according to Webster, with the
stress on the first, second, or final syllable. In the initial hospital room
scene where the Callaghans discover Peter in a coma and meet Lucy, all three
pronunciations of the word are given, and in consecutive order as far as the
syllables. Nurse: "She's his FIancée!" Midge: "His
fiANcée"? Doctor (a few lines later, to intern): "She's the fianCEE,
you idiot!"
The role of Lucy was written for Demi Moore. Sandra Bullock took the
role, saying she could relate to it having just broken up from a four year
relationship.
At the Callaghans' Christmas party,
Glynis Johns says, "I don't drink anymore. I don't drink any less,
either!" Co-star Jack Warden, who was also in that scene, delivered the
same line 31 years earlier in a Season 1 episode of "Bewitched"
(1964) ("It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog").
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