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* CreatorBacklash: Both Creator/JohnFord and Mervyn Leroy disowned the film.
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* CreatorBacklash: Both Directors Creator/JohnFord and Mervyn Leroy Creator/MervynLeRoy both disowned the film.
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* {{Corpsing}}: Creator/JamesCagney reportedly had to ask Creator/JackLemmon to run through one of their scenes several times before filming to get this out of his system, and still just barely managed to keep a straight face.
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* StarMakingRole: Creator/JackLemmon as Pulver. It won him [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Best Supporting Actor]] and launched his career.
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* StarMakingRole: Creator/JackLemmon as Pulver. It won him [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Best Supporting Actor]] and launched his career.career as a big-time Hollywood star.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: When Creator/JohnFord met Creator/JamesCagney at the airport, the director warned that they would "tangle asses," which caught Cagney by surprise. Cagney later said: "I would have kicked his brains out. He was so goddamned mean to everybody. He was truly a nasty old man." The next day, Cagney was slightly late on set, and Ford became incensed. Cagney cut short the imminent tirade, saying: "When I started this picture, you said that we would tangle asses before this was over. I'm ready now - are you?" Ford backed down and walked away and he and Cagney had no further conflicts on the set.
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* PrimaDonnaDirector: Creator/JohnFord. Punching your leading man in the face makes you this.
** When Ford met Creator/JamesCagney at the airport, the director warned that they would "tangle asses," which caught Cagney by surprise. Cagney later said: "I would have kicked his brains out. He was so goddamned mean to everybody. He was truly a nasty old man." The next day, Cagney was slightly late on set, and Ford became incensed. Cagney cut short the imminent tirade, saying: "When I started this picture, you said that we would tangle asses before this was over. I'm ready now - are you?" Ford backed down and walked away and he and Cagney had no further conflicts on the set.
** When Ford met Creator/JamesCagney at the airport, the director warned that they would "tangle asses," which caught Cagney by surprise. Cagney later said: "I would have kicked his brains out. He was so goddamned mean to everybody. He was truly a nasty old man." The next day, Cagney was slightly late on set, and Ford became incensed. Cagney cut short the imminent tirade, saying: "When I started this picture, you said that we would tangle asses before this was over. I'm ready now - are you?" Ford backed down and walked away and he and Cagney had no further conflicts on the set.
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** Creator/WilliamPowell meanwhile had trouble remembering his lines. It was bad enough that he retired after finishing the film. (And went on to live another thirty years.)
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Moving from the work page.
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* StarMakingRole: For Creator/JackLemmon.
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* StarMakingRole: For Creator/JackLemmon.Creator/JackLemmon as Pulver. It won him [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Best Supporting Actor]] and launched his career.
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* TroubledProduction: It seemed like a dream project for Warner Bros.: Cretor/JohnFord directing his long-time collaborator Creator/HenryFonda in an adaptation of Fonda's popular Broadway show. The movie was indeed successful, but proved a headache for the studio and a thoroughly miserable project for everyone concerned.
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* TroubledProduction: It seemed like a dream project for Warner Bros.: Cretor/JohnFord Creator/JohnFord directing his long-time collaborator Creator/HenryFonda in an adaptation of Fonda's popular Broadway show. The movie was indeed successful, but proved a headache for the studio and a thoroughly miserable project for everyone concerned.
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** While Creator/JackLemmon certainly didn't regret doing the movie, he wasn't happy with John Ford encouraging him to play Ensign Pulver more broadly than he'd have liked, feeling the role required a stronger mix of humor and drama.
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It's true. Read his autobiography.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Steven Hill left as Stefanowky during the play's run, so Creator/EliWallach replaced him.
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The "latter" would be Henry Fonda. It was John Ford who quit the film.
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* CreativeDifferences: Between Creator/JohnFord and Creator/HenryFonda. This is why the latter former quit the film.
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** When For Ford met Creator/JamesCagney at the airport, the director warned that they would "tangle asses," which caught Cagney by surprise. Cagney later said: "I would have kicked his brains out. He was so goddamned mean to everybody. He was truly a nasty old man." The next day, Cagney was slightly late on set, and Ford became incensed. Cagney cut short the imminent tirade, saying: "When I started this picture, you said that we would tangle asses before this was over. I'm ready now - are you?" Ford backed down and walked away and he and Cagney had no further conflicts on the set.
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* TroubledProduction: From the start, Ford and Fonda feuded about changes to the play; it culminated, famously, in Ford striking Fonda. Ford's health deteriorated to the point he was hospitalized twice; two other directors (Mervyn Leroy and Joshua Logan, who'd directed the stage version) replaced him, leaving studio editors to try matching their work. It's surprising ''Roberts'' turned out as well as it did.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: This was to have originally been shot in 3-D. However, the death of the trend at the time prevented this.
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* BackedByThePentagon: Eventually. At first the US Navy was not happy that the movie was to be made at all - Capt. Morton was not the kind of officer the Navy wanted the public to see - and was going to withhold all cooperation with the filmmakers. It took the influence of Creator/JohnFord, a former Navy captain, on some of his friends at Navy headquarters in Washington to secure the Navy's cooperation.
* CareerResurrection: For Creator/HenryFonda. He hadn't starred in a feature film since ''Film/FortApache'' and had been greylisted due to his political beliefs.
* CreatorBacklash: Both Creator/JohnFord and Mervyn Leroy disowned the film.
** Creator/HenryFonda felt that the film wasn't as good as the play. He later admitted, "I despised that movie".
* CreativeDifferences: Between Creator/JohnFord and Creator/HenryFonda. This is why the latter quit the film.
* DawsonCasting: Creator/HenryFonda was 49, much older than the average lieutenant junior grade.
* PrimaDonnaDirector: Creator/JohnFord. Punching your leading man in the face makes you this.
** When For met Creator/JamesCagney at the airport, the director warned that they would "tangle asses," which caught Cagney by surprise. Cagney later said: "I would have kicked his brains out. He was so goddamned mean to everybody. He was truly a nasty old man." The next day, Cagney was slightly late on set, and Ford became incensed. Cagney cut short the imminent tirade, saying: "When I started this picture, you said that we would tangle asses before this was over. I'm ready now - are you?" Ford backed down and walked away and he and Cagney had no further conflicts on the set.
* StarMakingRole: For Creator/JackLemmon.
* TroubledProduction:From It seemed like a dream project for Warner Bros.: Cretor/JohnFord directing his long-time collaborator Creator/HenryFonda in an adaptation of Fonda's popular Broadway show. The movie was indeed successful, but proved a headache for the start, Ford studio and Fonda feuded about changes to a thoroughly miserable project for everyone concerned.
** During pre-production Ford, himself a Navy veteran, toned down theplay; it culminated, famously, play's more subversive content in Ford striking Fonda. Ford's health deteriorated to hopes of getting Navy approval. Thus the point he was hospitalized twice; two other directors (Mervyn Leroy and Joshua Logan, who'd directed movie elides the stage version) replaced him, leaving studio editors to try matching their work. It's surprising ''Roberts'' turned out as well as it did.version's profanity and makes the villainous captain more comedic than evil. To compensate, Ford added broad slapstick comedy and expanded the role of Ensign Pulver.
** This didn't sit well with Fonda, who'd played Roberts onstage for six years and was fiercely protective of his role. He and Ford were at loggerheads before filming even started, sparring over script changes and Ford's encouraging costars Lemmon and James Cagney to ad-lib dialogue. After the first day's shooting on Midway Island, Ford and Fonda had a violent row which culminated in Ford punching Fonda in the face. Ford apologized profusely, but the damage was done: the two barely spoke for the rest of the shoot, and never again collaborated.
** This incident pushed Ford over the edge: usually abstemious while filming, Ford began drinking heavily, and was hospitalized in Hawaii for alcohol poisoning. Ford recovered enough to start shooting interiors back in Hollywood, but soon required gallbladder surgery. Ford's health and erratic behavior convinced Warner Bros. to act: with shooting about half-completed, Mervyn Leroy was assigned to replace Ford.
** Leroy finished shooting without further incident, but Warner Bros. executives (and Henry Fonda) weren't satisfied, feeling the style and tone of Leroy's scenes contrasted jarringly with Ford's work. At Fonda's suggestion Joshua Logan, who'd directed the stage version of Roberts, reshot several key scenes. Warners frantically tried to match the three directors' work together in post-production. Roberts earned mostly good reviews and proved a box office hit, though Ford and Logan virtually disowned it and Fonda later claimed "I despised that movie."
* WagTheDirector: Creator/HenryFonda, having been in the original play, felt that he knew it more than anyone. And he went through three directors.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: This was to have originally been shot in 3-D. However, the death of the trend at the time preventedthis.this
** Creator/MarlonBrando and Creator/WilliamHolden turned down the role of Mister Roberts.
** Creator/SpencerTracy turned down the role of Doc.
* CareerResurrection: For Creator/HenryFonda. He hadn't starred in a feature film since ''Film/FortApache'' and had been greylisted due to his political beliefs.
* CreatorBacklash: Both Creator/JohnFord and Mervyn Leroy disowned the film.
** Creator/HenryFonda felt that the film wasn't as good as the play. He later admitted, "I despised that movie".
* CreativeDifferences: Between Creator/JohnFord and Creator/HenryFonda. This is why the latter quit the film.
* DawsonCasting: Creator/HenryFonda was 49, much older than the average lieutenant junior grade.
* PrimaDonnaDirector: Creator/JohnFord. Punching your leading man in the face makes you this.
** When For met Creator/JamesCagney at the airport, the director warned that they would "tangle asses," which caught Cagney by surprise. Cagney later said: "I would have kicked his brains out. He was so goddamned mean to everybody. He was truly a nasty old man." The next day, Cagney was slightly late on set, and Ford became incensed. Cagney cut short the imminent tirade, saying: "When I started this picture, you said that we would tangle asses before this was over. I'm ready now - are you?" Ford backed down and walked away and he and Cagney had no further conflicts on the set.
* StarMakingRole: For Creator/JackLemmon.
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** During pre-production Ford, himself a Navy veteran, toned down the
** This didn't sit well with Fonda, who'd played Roberts onstage for six years and was fiercely protective of his role. He and Ford were at loggerheads before filming even started, sparring over script changes and Ford's encouraging costars Lemmon and James Cagney to ad-lib dialogue. After the first day's shooting on Midway Island, Ford and Fonda had a violent row which culminated in Ford punching Fonda in the face. Ford apologized profusely, but the damage was done: the two barely spoke for the rest of the shoot, and never again collaborated.
** This incident pushed Ford over the edge: usually abstemious while filming, Ford began drinking heavily, and was hospitalized in Hawaii for alcohol poisoning. Ford recovered enough to start shooting interiors back in Hollywood, but soon required gallbladder surgery. Ford's health and erratic behavior convinced Warner Bros. to act: with shooting about half-completed, Mervyn Leroy was assigned to replace Ford.
** Leroy finished shooting without further incident, but Warner Bros. executives (and Henry Fonda) weren't satisfied, feeling the style and tone of Leroy's scenes contrasted jarringly with Ford's work. At Fonda's suggestion Joshua Logan, who'd directed the stage version of Roberts, reshot several key scenes. Warners frantically tried to match the three directors' work together in post-production. Roberts earned mostly good reviews and proved a box office hit, though Ford and Logan virtually disowned it and Fonda later claimed "I despised that movie."
* WagTheDirector: Creator/HenryFonda, having been in the original play, felt that he knew it more than anyone. And he went through three directors.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: This was to have originally been shot in 3-D. However, the death of the trend at the time prevented
** Creator/MarlonBrando and Creator/WilliamHolden turned down the role of Mister Roberts.
** Creator/SpencerTracy turned down the role of Doc.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Starting off as a Creator/JohnFord production, there's a handful of Ford regulars among the cast:
** Henry Fonda, natch.
** There's Ward Bond
** And Harry Carey Jr.
** Patrick Wayne, JohnWayne's son, also stars as one of the crew.
** Henry Fonda, natch.
** There's Ward Bond
** And Harry Carey Jr.
** Patrick Wayne, JohnWayne's son, also stars as one of the crew.
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* TroubledProduction: From the start, Ford and Fonda feuded about changes to the play; it culminated, famously, in Ford striking Fonda. Ford's health deteriorated to the point he was hospitalized twice; two other directors (Mervyn Leroy and Joshua Logan, who'd directed the stage version) replaced him, leaving studio editors to try matching their work. It's surprising ''Roberts'' turned out as well as it did.
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