The $100,000 that B.J. Nolan needs for his housing development would be equivalent to $1,860,528 in 2021.
Frances Gifford as Secretary and Roger Gray as Window Washer are cast members in studio records/casting call lists, but they did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie.
No fewer than four actors and directors directly involved with the project refused to participate or offered large bribes to be let off. William Wyler, who had been given a vacation with all expenses paid, returned to Goldwyn $25,000 advanced to him in salary and expense money to be let off directing it. Miriam Hopkins offered to pay anything in reason not to star in it. Gregory La Cava, just made My Man Godfrey (1936) but, after reading the script, La Cava left the lot. Andrea Leeds, a Goldwyn contract player, refused the role of "Nina Tennyson."
Soon thereafter a large part of the Goldwyn organization filed into the boss's office, begged through a spokesman that he drop the picture. All those in revolt were proven right when the film reviews were indifferent to downright frosty.
Soon thereafter a large part of the Goldwyn organization filed into the boss's office, begged through a spokesman that he drop the picture. All those in revolt were proven right when the film reviews were indifferent to downright frosty.
Of note, the famed Gregg Toland, was Woman Chases Man (1937)'s cinematographer. Toland was in the midst of his tragically short career, beginning in 1926. Two years later, he would win an Oscar for Wuthering Heights (1939). From 1936 to 1942, he was nominated four times for an Oscar, winning an Oscar for William Wyler's "Wuthering Heights." He was innovative -devising a tool which silenced the camera's noise and allowed the camera to move about more freely. He was the first cinematographer to receive prominent billing in the opening credits. His trademark became a method known as "deep focus" cinematography, showing background objects as clearly as foreground objects. Toland's career was cut short in 1948 by his untimely death of coronary thrombosis at age 44. Among other credits, he was known for Citizen Kane (1941), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940).
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