FILM · 1967 · UK
Two for the Road
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- #001
Henry Mancini said that although the score he composed for this film was the most difficult music of his career, it was always his favorite.
- #002
Several biographies of Audrey Hepburn state that she was very nervous while filming her first nude scenes for this film, particularly a skinny-dipping scene. If such a scene was shot, it did not appear in the final cut.
- #003
Audrey Hepburn does not wear Givenchy's signature designs in this film. Director Stanley Donen insisted that it was very important for her character to wear clothes that could be bought in a store.
- #004
Jacqueline Bisset was partly dubbed by another actress. Bisset took a role in a major Hollywood film shortly after shooting, left England, and was therefore unavailable when the time came to re-record some of her lines.
- #005
Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney were asked to "direct" themselves in several scenes in which they are shown inside a moving car. Director Stanley Donen drove alongside them in another car and pressed the camera's buttons.
- #006
Audrey Hepburn was afraid of water, so the scene in which Mark throws Joanna into the water had to be shot with divers standing just outside the camera's range. One take was ruined because the diver jumped in too quickly to rescue Hepburn.
- #007
This is one of the few films in which Audrey Hepburn uses profanity. Throughout the film she says "damn" and "bastard."
- #008
According to Stanley Donen in the DVD audio commentary, no one wanted to film the scene in which Mark confronts Joanna about her infidelity at the cliffside café, because most people found it personally painful and realistic.
- #009
The "present-day" car — a Mercedes 230 — was director Stanley Donen's own personal car.
- #010
Steven Spielberg said that when he was young he would use this film (along with 1943's A Guy Named Joe) as a "litmus test" to decide whether to keep dating someone. If the girl did not like the film, he would not ask her out again.
- #011
When Audrey Hepburn briefly left the film because she was pregnant, Stanley Donen considered casting Julie Christie in the role of Joanna. Hepburn returned to the film after she miscarried.
- #012
On the MG, a January 1960 windshield sticker shows a license date, indicating that the events in those scenes take place in 1959, eight years before the film was made. The film also appears to pay tribute to Audrey Hepburn's fashion and hairstyles over the years: when Mark meets Joanna on the ferry in 1954, Hepburn's hair is styled like that of her character in "Roman Holiday (1953)."
- #013
Paul Newman turned down the role of Mark Wallace.
- #014
The silver sequined dress Audrey Hepburn wears near the end of the film can be seen at the Glasgow Riverside Museum.
- #015
It was included on the American Film Institute's 2002 list of the 100 Greatest Love Stories of America.
- #016
Paul Newman and Michael Caine were director Stanley Donen's first two choices for the role of Mark Wallace.
- #017
Patricia Viterbo, who plays one of Joanna's tour companions, died during the filming of "Le judoka, agent secret (1967)," in which she had to slowly reverse her convertible toward the bank of the Seine in Paris. She reversed too quickly, the car went into the water, and she drowned before the crew could rescue her. Her passenger Henri Garcin, who played her lover in the film, was pulled out and survived.
- #018
It was included on the American Film Institute's 1998 list of 400 films nominated for the 100 Best American Films.
- #019
Audrey Hepburn's son Sean Ferrer later had a brief romantic relationship with Jacqueline Bisset while working as a production assistant on the film Inchon (1981).
- #020
The house where Mark Wallace throws Joanna into the swimming pool is the same house and pool where Jacques Deray shot his film La Piscine (1969). A shot was made in which Joanna stands at the same tree seen in the opening sequence of Deray's film.
- #021
It was initially planned to be produced by Universal. It was taken over by Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown on behalf of 20th Century Fox.
- #022
Elaine May turned down the role of Joanna Wallace, which Audrey Hepburn ultimately played.
- #023
French visa number 33384 was issued on 4-7-1967.
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