One Touch of Venus (1948)

Whitfield Savory: She reminds me of someone.
Molly Grant: I wish she reminded me of me.

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Molly Grant: [to Savory] I'll catch you a couple of flies, and you can pull their wings off!

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Molly Grant: Try to reason about love and you will lose your reason - old French proverb.

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The original plans for filming this property in 1945 for United Artists included Mary Martin(from the original cast) with Frank Sinatra, Clifton Webb and Bert Lahr with Sam Coslow producing for Mary Pickford . Pickford felt that only Clifton Webb had any box office pull and she was hesitant to commit two million dollars of her own money to production. After much indecision she finally sold the rights to Lester Cowan at Universal. The Universal version appeared in 1948 with Ava Gardner.
The original musical play opened on October 7, 1943, at the Imperial Theatre in New York City. The show moved to the 46th Street Theatre on January 26, 1944, (two days after closing at the Imperial) and continued to run through February 10, 1945. The total number of performances was 567. The cast included Mary Martin (in a role originally meant for Marlene Dietrich), John Boles, and Kenny Baker.
The planned 1945 filming was to be in Technicolor.
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