Trivia / 10 (1979)

• Actor-Shared Background: Brian Dennehy really had worked as a bartender just like his character in this film.
  • Crossing into The Cast Showoff, Dudley Moore was both an accomplished pianist and occasional film composer as well as an actor.
• Career Resurrection: The film marked Julie Andrews' return to the big screen after a four-year absence.
• Cast the Runner-Up: Almost — Peter Sellers turned down many offers to play George Webber. He made a cameo appearance as a jazz drummer in a restaurant scene, but the scene was cut.
• The Cast Showoff: Dudley Moore plays a composer and is frequently seen playing the piano.
• Deleted Role: Peter Sellers's cameo appearance as a jazz drummer in a deleted restaurant scene.
• In Memoriam: "This Film is Dedicated With Love and Respect to Dick Crockett". Crockett had been a stunt man and a double for Peter Sellers on a number of Blake Edwards' movies and passed away in 1979 around the time this film was completed. This was Crockett's final film.
• One-Hit Wonder: While this wasn't Bo Derek's first acting role (Orca: The Killer Whale was), it was the one that put her on the map. However, it lead to a series of disastrously-received collaborations with her then-husband, John Derek, which torpedoed her career as a leading lady by the end of the following decade.
• Playing Against Type: Samantha is a decidedly more edgy and cynical character than Julie Andrews had been known for! This film's success helped give her a film Career Resurrection after the failures of the musicals Star! and Darling Lili at the turn of the 1970s made her all the more associated with the sugary fare of Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music.
• Star-Making Role:
  • Bo Derek's sexy one-piece gold swimsuit made her a sex symbol through the following '80s.
  • For most audiences outside of the UK, this was their introduction to Dudley Moore — he was already known in the UK for his comic partnership with Peter Cook — who subsequently toplined a clutch of romantic comedies in the early 1980s.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Jack Lemmon was Blake Edwards' original choice for George Webber, but he never responded.
  • George Segal was originally cast to play George Webber, but walked out before filming even began.
  • Kim Basinger, Melanie Griffith and Tanya Roberts were amongst those considered for Jenny Hanley.

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