| 1 | * CreatorsFavourite: Creator/SpencerTracy considered his role as Frank Skeffington at the very least as his favorite of that year; he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for ''Film/TheOldManAndTheSea'' released earlier that same year, but he believed his performance in ''The Last Hurrah'' was superior. |
| 2 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: |
| 3 | ** Creator/OrsonWelles was Creator/JohnFord's original choice to play Frank Skeffington, but accounts differ on why he ultimately wasn't cast. One account states that Welles either lost or refused the part after Ward Bond, a Ford friend and an ultra-conservative Republican, publicly questioned Welles' loyalty to the US, as Welles was well-known as a progressive Democrat; Ford was furious at Bond, since Welles and Ford were fans of each other's work. In Peter Bogdanovich's book ''This Is Orson Welles'', however, Welles gave another account: |
| 4 | --->'''Welles:''' When the contracts were to be settled, I was away on location, and some lawyer—if you can conceive of such a thing—turned it down. He told Ford that the money wasn't right or the billing wasn't good enough, something idiotic like that, and when I came back to town the part had gone to [Spencer] Tracy. |
| 5 | ** Ford also considered Creator/JamesCagney and Creator/JohnWayne for the role of Skeffington. |
| 6 | ** Creator/JackLemmon was announced at one point for the role of Adam Caufield (opposite Cagney as Skeffington). |
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