Mister Tee wrote:I can't speak for Magilla/Damien/Mike Kelly, or others who were around at the time, but the Page nomination came as a huge surprise to me. She's funny in the film, but it had been, I believe, an only-in-LA Oscar qualifier, and one without much critical support. Of course, Page was pretty good at getting out of the blue nods -- see: Pope of Greenwich Village.
This came out while I was stationed in Germany. Although we got a surprising number of recently released films on base, both good and bad (Alfie was one, the godawful An American Dream was another), but by the time I left in May or June, 1967 we still hadn't gotten this one so it was one of the first films I wanted to see when I got home.
I thought at the time that Page was the best thing about it but that wasn't saying much. She was, at the time, at the height of her critical acclaim having starred in the December, 1966 TV production of Truman Captoe's A Christmas Memory for which she won an Emmy.
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