1/3/2023 0 Comments Darling movie comedy scenesIn her memoirs, Williams said she had been on maternity leave for three months while pregnant with daughter Susan, and had assumed that she would get straight to work on the film Athena. MGM said because of this casting, Jane Powell was to go into Athena which had been intended for Williams, Ava Gardner would replace Powell in Love Me or Leave Me, and Lana Turner would replace Gardner in My Most Intimate Friend. In January 1954, MGM announced they would turn the play into a musical called Jupiter's Darling starring Esther Williams and Howard Keel. In January 1950, MGM announced that Charles Schnee had just completed a script for Clarence Brown to direct and that they hoped Kirk Douglas to star. In May 1940 MGM announced the film would star Loy. Rights appear to have lapsed because in April 1939 MGM announced they had purchased the property again as a vehicle for Myrna Loy and Clark Gable with Joseph L Mankiewicz to produce. In June the studio listed the project among their upcoming productions. In May 1933 the studio announced they would make a movie from the play. The film was based on a 1927 play Road to Rome. John Olszewski as Principal Swimming Statue.The movie was a huge financial flop and the last movie Williams made at MGM. He later said he felt it was the best picture they made together. The film was the last of three films Williams and Keel made together, the other two being Pagan Love Song (1950) and Texas Carnival (1951). Sherwood's anti-war comedy play The Road to Rome (1927). Carthaginians Mago Barca and Maharbal also appear. The film features many historical characters, including Roman generals Fabius Maximus and Scipio Africanus who appears briefly, in addition to Hannibal. In the film, Amytis helps Hannibal swim the Tiber River to take a closer look at Rome's fortifications. It starred Esther Williams as the Roman woman Amytis, Howard Keel as Hannibal, the Carthaginian military commander and George Sanders as Fabius Maximus, Amytis's fiancé. Jupiter's Darling is a 1955 American Eastman Color musical romance film released by MGM and directed by George Sidney filmed in CinemaScope.
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