Line #11 Trivia/MyraBreckinridge


1	* BannedInChina: It was banned in Australia for a while.
2	* BillingDisplacement: Creator/RaquelWelch is the star, yet she gets third billing behind Creator/MaeWest and Creator/JohnHuston.
3	* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget: $5,385,000. Box office: $4 million.
4	* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/TomSelleck auditioned for the role of Rusty before being cast as Stud.
5	* CompletelyDifferentTitle:
6	** In Brazil, the movie is called ''Homem e Mulher Até Certo Ponto'' (''Man and Woman Up Until a Certain Point'').
7	** In Denmark, ''Det forkerte køn'' (''The Wrong Gender'').
8	** In Greece, ''To flogero agorokoritso'' (''The Fiery Tomboy'').
9	* CreatorBacklash: Most people involved in the movie ended up disliking it.
10	** Creator/GoreVidal hated the movie and said it was one the worst he'd ever seen.
11	** Creator/RaquelWelch and Creator/FarrahFawcett also went on record to say that the movie was terrible. In a 2012 interview with Mark Peikert, Welch said of the film, "The only good thing about that was the clothes."
12	** Creator/RexReed went as far to say that the movie should have never been released.
13	** After completing his scenes, Creator/JohnHuston said Michael Sarne will never be able to "cut this mess together."
14	* CreatorKiller: Michael Sarne never worked in Hollywood again.
15	* DisownedAdaptation: Creator/GoreVidal disowned this screen version of his novel and even called it the second worst film he'd ever seen.
16	* HostilityOnTheSet:
17	** Much like Creator/PeterSellers and Creator/OrsonWelles on ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'', Creator/RaquelWelch and Creator/MaeWest got on so badly that they weren't on the set at the same time. According to the 1978 book ''Flesh and Fantasy'', West had stipulated in her contract that only she would be allowed to dress in black and white in the film. Welch showed up to shoot their first scene together in a black dress with an enormous white ruffle, and West threw a fit. When the film's producers sided with West, Welch had the ruffle on the dress dyed a very, very pale blue...which photographed as white.
18	** Creator/FarrahFawcett had a horrible time on the film. Not only was Welch mean to her, but West took one look at her and said she refused to work with other blondes, so she was sent to have her hair darkened. When Welch saw her, Farrah said she was furious and she was sent back to the colorist.
19	** Michael Sarne complained to the film's producers that Creator/RexReed was being "faggy, prissy and unpleasant" on the set. Sarne also repeatedly insulted and belittled the cast, in particular calling Welch "old raccoon" and constantly telling her to her face that she was so ugly he could barely stand to look at her. He also called Creator/JohnHuston a "decrepit old hack" among other things, and slammed his entire career in a magazine interview conducted during filming. He also encouraged bickering among his cast members.
20	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Given how bad things went upon release, Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox apparently thought so little of ''Myra Breckinridge'' that, aside from a brief early '80s VHS release, it was unavailable on the home video market until 2004.
21	* MoneyDearBoy: Michael Sarne didn't want to make the film as he didn't like the book, but needed the money after several failed years in Hollywood.
22	* StarDerailingRole: Creator/RaquelWelch was a major sex symbol of TheSixties, when she played the title character of this film in an ill-fated attempt at displaying her acting prowess. Its failure severely damaged her career instead and led to her struggles during TheSeventies. The failure of ''Film/MotherJugsAndSpeed'' near the tail end of the decade, in addition to many other flops, reduced her to MadeForTVMovie territory for nearly two decades.
23	* StuntCasting: Film critic Creator/RexReed as Myra's pre-op counterpart Myron.
24	* TroubledProduction: Along with the cases of HostilityOnTheSet, director Michael Sarne obtained ProtectionFromEditors in his contract and then by all accounts '''deliberately''' trying to make the worst film he possibly could, from the bizarre casting choices, the constant addition of weird material (along with wasting resources, such as spending the better part of a week shooting hours of footage featuring ''plates of food''), and ending the day's filming eight hours early so that he could spend the rest of the day "thinking." His decision to use lots of StockFootage also led to lawsuits from the actors featured in them (specially those with clips in the rape scene!), and at one point no less than the ''White House'' stepped in to have clips of Creator/ShirleyTemple removed, as at that time the adult Shirley Temple Black was serving as a U.S. ambassador.
25	* TransCharacterCisActor: Cis actress Creator/RaquelWelch plays the title character, who is a trans woman.
26	* {{Typecasting}}: Creator/MaeWest was well-known for playing characters that seemed to speak only in double entendres. Her character in this film was no different.
27	* WagTheDirector: One of the conditions that Creator/MaeWest insisted on be met before she would appear in the film was that she have a couple of musical numbers. She also had full approval on all wardrobe decisions for not just her but for Raquel Welch, too. For their one scene together, Welch was supposed to have been wearing a black dress with white trim to counterpoint West's own white dress. On the day of filming Welch arrived on set, eager to wear her sumptuous Theadora Van Runkle creation, only to be informed that West had insisted that it be confiscated, claiming that she had stipulated in her contract that only she would be allowed to dress in black and white in the film. Welch was so outraged she stormed off set and would only return when the dress had been given back. Then she insisted that her character's name (Leticia) be spelled differently than it was in the book (Letitia) citing "the obvious reasons".
28	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
29	** Creator/AudreyHepburn could have been Myra but she turned it down. Ditto for Creator/VanessaRedgrave. It's unclear as to if they were ever offered the role but, Creator/ElizabethTaylor, Creator/AnneBancroft, and Creator/AngelaLansbury were all considered for the role.
30	** Creator/BetteDavis emphatically turned down the role of Leticia Van Allen, expressing her contempt for the book.
31	** Michael Sarne originally wanted Creator/MickeyRooney to play Buck Loner.
32	** The part of the sex-change surgeon eventually played by Creator/JohnCarradine was originally intended for Creator/WalterPidgeon.
33	** After getting his then-girlfriend Creator/FarrahFawcett in the movie, Creator/LeeMajors was offered the role of Rusty, but turned it down.
34	* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Michael Sarne constantly rewrote the script, adding bizarre and completely irrelevant scenes that deviated further from the original novel.

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