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...cast the movie adaptation of Broadway's Forty Carats. What was needed was a deft comedienne who could also encompass the transformation from faceless widow to a sparkling "older woman" who carries on an affair with a 20-year-old boy. An Elizabeth Taylor, perhaps. Producer Mike Frankovich wanted Liv Ullmann-so much so that he was willing to have the part rewritten to suit her, lowering the matron's age and making her Scandinavian-born...
...button. For a woman who stands only 5 ft. 5 in., the bust is perhaps too heroic, while the stomach is-well -flabby. Yet somehow all the defective parts work together to make Dyan Cannon Hollywood's newest sex star. "She has the skin touch," explains Producer Mike Frankovich. "It's a vibrant sex that goes over so strongly it sets off most...
Eventually she landed the part that finally made her a movie star-Alice in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. With stardom, there quickly came a reputation for star temperament and all the late arrivals, weeping fits and temper tantrums that go with it. "Like any strong woman," shrugs Producer Frankovich, "she's got fangs." The director who seems to have felt them most keenly is Preminger, himself no Teddy bear. On the set of Such Good Friends, they clashed over her lateness, his penchant for exacting retakes (58 on one scene), and her refusal to pose completely in the nude...
...stars' salaries. The studios were emboldened by the success of The Graduate, which, without a big box-office name, has become the third-highsst grosser ($43 million) in history; Dustin Hoffman's pay for that film was $20,000. On the other side of the coin, Mike Frankovich, a former production chief at Columbia, recalls how "Universal failed three times with Shirley MacLaine, yet still gave her $800,000 plus a percentage for Sweet Charity." Sweet Charity went sour, and Shirley has not been swamped with offers. Similarly, Peter Sellers, who has commanded...
With money as tight as it is, stars are increasingly being talked into sharing the risk and, in effect, bankrolling their own pictures. Frankovich persuaded Sidney Poitier to work for nothing "up front" but 10% of the gross in To Sir with Love. Poitier's take is $2,000,000 already and should hit $4,000,000. Natalie Wood, once around the $750,000 level, turned down a similar deal in Bonnie and Clyde, then last year came around on Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice; she won't be sorry...