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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/GeorgeStevens thought that Creator/GloriaGrahame would be perfect for the role of Alice and personally called her to play the part. However, Creator/HowardHughes, refused to loan her out from Creator/RKOPictures.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/GeorgeStevens thought that Creator/GloriaGrahame would be perfect for the role of Alice and personally called her to play the part. However, Creator/HowardHughes, Creator/HowardHughes refused to loan her out from Creator/RKOPictures.
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* DyeingForYourArt: Shelley Winters dyed her hair brown for the film.

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* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/ShelleyWinters considered this to be her best work.
* DyeingForYourArt: Shelley Winters Creator/ShelleyWinters dyed her hair brown for the film.



* PlayingAgainstType: Shelley Winters, at the time best known for playing sexpots, as a dowdy shrew.

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* PlayingAgainstType: Shelley Winters, Creator/ShelleyWinters, at the time best known for playing sexpots, as a dowdy shrew.



* ThoseTwoActors: This is one of three films, the other two being ''Raintree County'' and ''Suddenly Last Summer'', that Creator/ElizabethTaylor and Creator/MontgomeryClift starred in.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: George Stevens thought that Creator/GloriaGrahame would be perfect for the role of Alice and personally called her to play the part. However, Creator/HowardHughes, refused to loan her out from Creator/RKOPictures.

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* ThoseTwoActors: This is one of three films, the other two being ''Raintree County'' and ''Suddenly Last Summer'', ''Film/SuddenlyLastSummer'', that Creator/ElizabethTaylor and Creator/MontgomeryClift starred in.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: George Stevens Creator/GeorgeStevens thought that Creator/GloriaGrahame would be perfect for the role of Alice and personally called her to play the part. However, Creator/HowardHughes, refused to loan her out from Creator/RKOPictures.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: George Stevens thought that Creator/GloriaGrahame would be perfect for the role of Alice and personally called her to play the part. However, UsefulNotes/HowardHughes, refused to loan her out from Creator/{{RKO}}.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: George Stevens thought that Creator/GloriaGrahame would be perfect for the role of Alice and personally called her to play the part. However, UsefulNotes/HowardHughes, Creator/HowardHughes, refused to loan her out from Creator/{{RKO}}.Creator/RKOPictures.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Shelly Winters, at the time best known for playing sexpots, as a dowdy shrew.

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* PlayingAgainstType: Shelly Shelley Winters, at the time best known for playing sexpots, as a dowdy shrew.
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* ThoseTwoActors: This is one of three films, the other two bein Film/RaintreeCounty and Film/SuddenlyLastSummer, that CreatorElizabethTaylor and Creator/MontgomeryClift

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* ThoseTwoActors: This is one of three films, the other two bein Film/RaintreeCounty being ''Raintree County'' and Film/SuddenlyLastSummer, ''Suddenly Last Summer'', that CreatorElizabethTaylor Creator/ElizabethTaylor and Creator/MontgomeryCliftCreator/MontgomeryClift starred in.
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* ThoseTwoActors: This is one of three films, the other two bein Film/RaintreeCounty and Film/SuddenlyLastSummer, that CreatorElizabethTaylor and Creator/MontgomeryClift

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* AFIS100Years100Movies: #92
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* DyeingForYourArt: Shelley Winters dyed her hair brown for the film.
* MethodActing: Creator/MontgomeryClift readied himself for his climactic sequence by spending a night locked in the San Quentin Penitentiary death house.


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* TheRedStapler: Creator/ElizabethTaylor's "White lilac" gown became a fashion sensation and sold many copies and patterns.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: George Stevens thought that Creator/GloriaGrahame would be perfect for the role of Alice and personally called her to play the part. However, UsefulNotes/HowardHughes, refused to loan her out from Creator/{{RKO}}.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: The movie eliminates the entire first part of Dreiser's novel, which deals with the protagonist's experiences as a Kansas City bellhop, his sexual initiation, his unrequited crush on a local party girl, and his involvement in [[spoiler:the accidental vehicular death of a little girl]].
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* PlayingAgainstType: Shelly Winters, at the time best known for playing sexpots, as a dowdy shrew.

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* PlayingAgainstType: Shelly Winters, at the time best known for playing sexpots, as a dowdy shrew.shrew.
* PragmaticAdaptation: The movie eliminates the entire first part of Dreiser's novel, which deals with the protagonist's experiences as a Kansas City bellhop, his sexual initiation, his unrequited crush on a local party girl, and his involvement in [[spoiler:the accidental vehicular death of a little girl]].
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* PlayingAgainstType: Shelly Winters, at the time best known for playing sexpots, as a dowdy shrew.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Aside from famous Hollywood stars of the day such as Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters and Elizabeth Taylor, there's also Franchise/PerryMason as the prosecutor filing criminal charges against George. Becomes HilariousInHindsight due to the fact that Raymond Burr is portraying more or less the exact same character that Hamilton Burger eventually ended up becoming on the ''Perry Mason'' TV series.

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* AFIS100Years100Passions: #53
* HeyItsThatGuy: Aside from famous Hollywood stars of the day such as Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters and Elizabeth Taylor, there's also Franchise/PerryMason as the prosecutor filing criminal charges against George. Becomes HilariousInHindsight due to the fact that Raymond Burr is portraying more or less the exact same character that Hamilton Burger eventually ended up becoming on the ''Perry Mason'' TV series.
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* AFIS100Years100Movies: #92
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Aside from famous Hollywood stars of the day such as Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters and Elizabeth Taylor, there's also Franchise/PerryMason as the prosecutor filing criminal charges against George. Becomes HilariousInHindsight due to the fact that Raymond Burr is portraying more or less the exact same character that Hamilton Burger eventually ended up becoming on the ''Perry Mason'' TV series.

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