Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Kit Marlowe: It`s late, and I`m very, very tired of youth and love and self-sacrifice. Kit Marlowe: If you`d just look at Millie`s activities as confession of weakness, an admission that there`s something essentially lacking in her nature, you`d find it a little touching and love her.
Preston Drake: You sound like one of Millie`s books.
Kit Marlowe: I know... my fatal beauty drives men mad.
Kit Marlowe: [responding to a question about Millie`s daughter Deidre] Well, she`s really partly mine anyway. I was at the hospital when she was born. As a matter of fact, she gave me her first smile. Her mother said it was gas.
Belle Carter: [to Kit] Tell me, how is your new book coming along?
Kit Marlowe: Well, I write and I write, and I still don`t like it.
Belle Carter: But, at least when you do turn one out, it`s a gem! None of this grinding them out like sausage...
Belle Carter: [she realizes that she has just insulted Millie and pauses with embarrassment] I suppose I could cut my throat.
Millie Drake: [clearly offended] There`s a knife on the table!
Kit Marlowe: Cheer up, there`s always what`s left of the ice.
Kit Marlowe: There comes a time in every woman`s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
Trivia
This film was the second collaboration of legendary arch-enemies Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins, (Their previous collaboration had been The Old Maid (1939).) The fact that in 1939, Bette Davis had an affair with Miriam Hopkins` then-husband, director Anatole Litvak, only added to their mutual hatred. To their credit, the two actresses had a sense of humor about the situation and allowed publicity photographs to be taken of them facing each other wearing boxing gloves, with director Vincent Sherman between them.
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This is the film with the often shown, camp classic scene of Bette Davis calmly grabbing Miriam Hopkins by the shoulders, vigorously shaking her, throwing her down into a chair, and then calmly saying with a clipped, sarcastic edge: "Sorry". Bette Davis later admitted she immensely enjoyed playing that scene.
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Vincent Sherman wanted Eleanor Parker for the role of Deidre, but the studio stuck with original director Edmund Goulding`s choice of Dolores Moran for the part.
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In one scene, an enraged Millie refers to Kit as "Jezebel!" This was the title of Bette Davis` blockbuster hit five years before this movie (Jezebel (1938)).
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The Broadway play opened on December 23, 1940 at the Morosco Theatre and closed 17 May 1941 after 170 performances. The opening night cast included Jane Cowl as Kit, Peggy Wood as Millie and Kent Smith as Rudd Kendall. Warner Bros. purchased the rights to the play for $75,000.
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Many cast members in studio records & casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names): Leona Maricle (Julia Broadbank), George Lessey (Dean), Joseph Crehan (Editor), Ann Codee (Madamoiselle), Creighton Hale (Stage manager), Pierre Watkin (Mr. Winter) and Frank Darien (Stage doorman). Other cast members such as Charles Sullivan, Jack Mower, Sam Harris, Herbert Rawlinson and all of the college girls were credited by barely seen.
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Bette Davis personally requested the casting of Norma Shearer in the role of Mildred Drake. Shearer refused the role and the part went to Miriam Hopkins.
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