Production
Parts of this film were filmed on City Island, Bronx. Studio shots were at Chelsea Studios.
Elizabeth Taylor and her then-husband Eddie Fisher hated the film, referring to it as "Butterball Four". Her now-famous response to the success of the film, made under protest in order to fulfill a contractual obligation to MGM before being allowed to depart to 20th Century Fox to make Cleopatra: "I still say it stinks". Elizabeth reportedly hated the film because, at the time of its making, she was not only being tied down to the project by the studio, but also because due to her "stealing" Eddie Fisher away from his then-wife Debbie Reynolds she was referred to as a "slut" and a "homewrecker" by U.S. fans, which is exactly what her character, Gloria, was based on.
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