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FILM · 1961 · USA

Lover Come Back

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13 Interesting Facts About Lover Come Back

  1. #001

    In the original ending, Carol and Jerry got drunk at the VIP and checked into a hotel. Doris Day insisted that the ending be rewritten so that Carol and Jerry get married while drunk before sleeping together.

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  2. #002

    All of Doris Day's close-ups are shot in soft focus.

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  3. #003

    About a year and a half after completing this film, its twice-Oscar-nominated costume designer Irene jumped to her death from the roof of the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood. In her 1975 autobiography, Doris Day suggested that Irene's suicide may have stemmed from the designer's secret, unrequited love for Gary Cooper and Cooper's recent death from cancer.

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  4. #006

    The colors of the smoke in the explosions in Dr. Tyler's chemistry laboratory correspond to the final colors of the candy wrappers on the final VIP product.

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  5. #008

    With Donna Douglas's death on January 1, 2015, Doris Day became the longest-living member of the cast, until her own death on May 13, 2019, 58 years later.

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  6. #009

    Edie Adams's (Rebel Davis) husband, comedian Ernie Kovacs, would die tragically in a car accident two weeks after this film's premiere. Mrs. Adams did not know how much Mr. Kovacs owed and could not mourn; she had to work nonstop, first to pay her husband's IRS bills, but also to have the money to support herself.

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  7. #011

    This is Jack Oakie's last feature film appearance.

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  8. #012

    Carol speaks of trust and of a woman's instinctive knowledge of when a man can be trusted while she is at Dr. Linus's (actually Jerry Webster's) aquarium; they stand before a tank mock-up that looks like a big fish trying to catch its prey, which looks like a small worm. Just as Carol says, "and doctor, you can be trusted," it is revealed that the "little worm" is actually part of a large anglerfish, whose huge jaws open to draw in its prey.

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  9. #013

    The offer two men from the liquor industry make to Jerry, giving him 20% of the 60 million dollars the liquor industry spends on advertising each year (12 million dollars in 1961), is now worth 97,122,494.43 dollars a year.

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  10. #015

    As in Pillow Talk (1959), Rock Hudson's character has a relationship with a Southern woman working in New York. Here she is Asi Davis (Edie Adams); in Pillow Talk (1959) she is Marie (Julia Meade).

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  11. #016

    Carol Templeton (Doris Day) drives a powder-blue 1961 Plymouth Fury convertible with a square steering wheel, push-button transmission and side-mounted rocket-shaped taillights. As in most of Day's films, all the cars were supplied under a promotional agreement between Chrysler Motors and Day's Arwin Productions, headed by her husband/manager Martin Melcher.

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  12. #017

    Rock Hudson takes his client to the "Bunny Club," a parody of the Playboy Club located on 59th Street, just off Fifth Avenue in NYC. It was a subsidiary of Playboy Magazine, and the waitresses who wore short uniforms with bunny tails were called "bunnies."

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  13. #020

    The film was co-produced by Rock Hudson (through 7 Pictures Corporation), Doris Day (through Arwin Productions) and Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning (through Nob Hill Productions).

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