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'''''Lucky Lady''''' is a 1975 American [[comedy-drama]] film directed by [[Stanley Donen]] and starring [[Gene Hackman]], [[Liza Minnelli]], and [[Burt Reynolds]], with [[Robby Benson]]. Its story takes place in 1930 during [[Prohibition in the United States]].
'''''Lucky Lady''''' is a 1975 American [[comedy-drama]] film directed by [[Stanley Donen]] and starring [[Gene Hackman]], [[Liza Minnelli]], and [[Burt Reynolds]], with [[Robby Benson]]. Its story takes place in 1930 during [[Prohibition in the United States]].

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Gene Hackman initially did not want to do the film, but [[20th Century Fox]] kept offering him more and more money. Finally, Fox offered him $1.25 million, and according to [[talent agent]] [[Sue Mengers]], "it was almost obscene for him not to do the film."<ref name=Litwak>{{cite book |last1=Litwak |first1=Mark |title=Reel Power: The Struggle for Influence and Success in the New Hollywood |year=1986 |publisher=[[William Morrow and Company]] |location=New York |isbn=0-688-04889-7 |page=86 }}</ref>


On February 1, 2011 [[Shout! Factory]] released the film on DVD for the first time.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Lucky-Lady-Gene-Hackman/dp/B004AZ7ZJA/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1337108700&sr=1-1|publisher=[[Amazon.com|Amazon]]|title=Lucky Lady, 1975|accessdate=May 15, 2012}}</ref>
On February 1, 2011 [[Shout! Factory]] released the film on DVD for the first time.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Lucky-Lady-Gene-Hackman/dp/B004AZ7ZJA/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1337108700&sr=1-1|publisher=[[Amazon.com|Amazon]]|title=Lucky Lady, 1975|accessdate=May 15, 2012}}</ref>
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==Production==
==Production==
===Development===
The script was sold for $450,000.<ref>Screenwriter as Star: Shaking the Shackles
Katz and Huyck at the time were best known for writing ''[[American Grafitti]]''. Before that film came out they were struggling writers, looking for an original project. While Huyck was in the Army reserves, Katz was in the UCLA library "looking for anything for an idea."<ref name="comment"/> She came across an article in ''American Mercury'' magazine about rumrunners operating off Ensenada during prohibition and, feeling that it had never been used for a film before, started researching the period. When Huyck got out of the army they brought the idea to Mike Gruskoff, a producer, who liked the similarities to ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]'' and agreed to finance them writing it for $75,000<ref name="comment"/>
⚫
Laskos, Andrew. Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 29 Aug 1976: k1.</ref> The writers wanted [[Steven Spielberg]] to direct and he was interested but had made a commitment to do ''Jaws''.<ref name="aint">[http://www.aintitcool.com/node/67450 "FORTUNE AND GLORY: Writers of Doom! Quint interviews Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz!" ''Aint It Cool New'' 23 May 2014] accessed 23 April 2015</ref>


They worked on the script script for six months. "It took us a long time to get our characters down," said Katz. "We tried it a lot of different ways. And we did a lot of research into the period and the language."<ref name="comment"/>
⚫
Donen originally wanted [[Paul Newman]], who also wanted Spielberg to direct,<ref>{{cite web|last=Freer|first=Ian|title=Steven Spielberg's Interstellar?! The 19 Films He Nearly Made|date=9 May 2014|publisher=''[[Empire (film magazine)]]''|url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/unmade-spielberg-movies/|accessdate=17 July 2018}}</ref> and [[Warren Beatty]] for the lead male roles with production scheduled to begin in October 1974. Later, in November 1974, Reynolds was signed along with [[George Segal]], who later dropped out of the project and was quickly replaced with Hackman.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://originalvidjunkie.blogspot.com/2015/12/newsploitation-burt-reynolds-goes-two.html |title=Burt Reynolds Goes Two-for-Two on Xmas |publisher=Video Junkie |accessdate=December 27, 2015}}</ref> Filming began in Mexico in February 1975 and finished in July of that year.

When they handed the script in, Groskoff sold the film within eighteen hours to 20th Century Fox for $450,000, which was then a record amount for an original screenplay. They were helped by the fact that ''American Graffiti'' had since come out and been a huge success.<ref name="comment">Gloria Katz-Willard Huyck Interview
Warren, Madeline; Levine, Robert A. Film Comment; New York Vol. 11, Iss. 2, (Mar/Apr 1975): 47-53. </ref><ref>Screenwriter as Star: Shaking the Shackles
Laskos, Andrew. Los Angeles Times 29 Aug 1976: k1.</ref>

"Mike Gruskoff was incredible, just incredible at selling a script," said Katz. "He got it immediately to the heads of the studios and he sold it very, very fast."<ref name="comment"/>

The producer paid the writers $100,000 of the $450,000.<ref name="unlucky"/>
===Director===
⚫
The writers wanted [[Steven Spielberg]] to direct and he was interested but had made a commitment to do ''Jaws''.<ref name="aint">[http://www.aintitcool.com/node/67450 "FORTUNE AND GLORY: Writers of Doom! Quint interviews Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz!" ''Aint It Cool New'' 23 May 2014] accessed 23 April 2015</ref> Eventually [[Stanley Donen]] signed.<ref name="new"/> Donen's fee was $600,000, Grusskoff's was $400,000.<ref name="pay">'Inferno' 'Lady' Pile Up Payrolls
Los Angeles Times 26 Nov 1974: e6. </ref>

Katz said, "our reaction was, Stanley Donen seems so bizarre for this kind of film! Then we realized he's the ideal director because he is really a romantic director, and he can do this kind of character stuff and the kind of humor that the film has."<ref name="comment"/>
Some changes to the script were made. "Stanley wanted very much to play up the relationships, the menage-à-trois," said Huyck. "Which was fine with us. The script was probably overloaded with action since we wanted to sell it. Actually, action is boring to write. We have much more fun with dialogue."<ref name="comment"/>

"Stanley's big emphasis to us is that you must love the characters," said Katz. "And any place he feels the characters are being lost, he wants us to put in something to develop the characters further. "<ref name="comment"/>
===Casting===
The writers said their inspiration for the lead characters were [[Jean Harlow]], [[Clark Gable]] and [[Spencer Tracy]].<ref name="comment"/>

It took 18 months for Donen to cast the film. Donen says this was due to problems with billing, pay and the fact the woman's role was central made it difficult to find male stars to play opposite her.<ref name="unlucky"/>

"We thought the idea of three stars was a terrific notion because it would make ''Lucky Lady'' very salable and very castable," said Katz. "Ironically, it made it salable, but casting turned out to be a very big problem because one of the three stars was a woman. A lot of male actors didn't want to be in an ensemble piece or a piece with a woman as a strong character."<ref name="comment"/>

⚫
The only two female stars considered "bankable" at the time were [[Barbra Streisand]] and [[Liza Minnelli]]. Minnelli was the first star cast, for a minimum of $350,000.<ref name="pay"/><ref name="csm"/> Donen originally wanted [[Paul Newman]], who also wanted Spielberg to direct,<ref>{{cite web|last=Freer|first=Ian|title=Steven Spielberg's Interstellar?! The 19 Films He Nearly Made|date=9 May 2014|publisher=''[[Empire (film magazine)]]''|url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/unmade-spielberg-movies/|accessdate=17 July 2018}}</ref> and [[Warren Beatty]] for the lead male roles with production scheduled to begin in October 1974. However the stars could not be locked down.

Later, in November 1974, Burt Reynolds was signed along with [[George Segal]].<ref>That's Liza With an 'L' for Lucky
Los Angeles Times 19 Nov 1974: f9. </ref> Huyck said Reynolds "didn't really like doing macho roles, he didn't want to play the tough guy role, he wanted the silly part."<ref name="csm"/> Reynolds' fee was reportedly $500,000, Seagal's $750,000.<ref name="pay"/>

Reynolds said it was "very important" the film was a success "since my last three films went down the tubes."<ref name="unlucky"/>

Segal later dropped out of the project and was quickly replaced with Hackman.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://originalvidjunkie.blogspot.com/2015/12/newsploitation-burt-reynolds-goes-two.html |title=Burt Reynolds Goes Two-for-Two on Xmas |publisher=Video Junkie |accessdate=December 27, 2015}}</ref>

⚫
Gene Hackman initially did not want to do the film, but [[20th Century Fox]] kept offering him more and more money. Finally, Fox offered him $1.25 million, and according to [[talent agent]] [[Sue Mengers]], "it was almost obscene for him not to do the film."<ref name=Litwak>{{cite book |last1=Litwak |first1=Mark |title=Reel Power: The Struggle for Influence and Success in the New Hollywood |year=1986 |publisher=[[William Morrow and Company]] |location=New York |isbn=0-688-04889-7 |page=86 }}</ref> "I was seduced," said Hackman.<ref name="unlucky"/>
===Shooting===
Filming began in Guaymas, Mexico in February 1975 and finished in July of that year. It was an exceedingly difficult shoot, compounded by the isolation of the location, poor weather, and the fact so much of it was shot on water.<ref name="unlucky">'Lucky Lady' Filming Just Plain Unlucky: 'Lucky' Filming Plain Unlucky 'Lucky' Filming Plain Unlucky 'Lucky' Filming Plain Unlucky
Murphy, Mary. Los Angeles Times 29 June 1975: t1. </ref>

"I remember water," said Minnelli later. "For days. And shrimp. That's all we ate - shrimp. We were stranded. There was no TV, no radio, no American papers. The only way we knew what was going on away from the location was by telephone."<ref name="liza">Minnelli talks movies and gets the pictures
Siskel, Gene. Chicago Tribune 19 Sep 1976: e3. </ref>

The film went over budget to nearly $13 million.<ref name="new"/> Other estimates put it as high as $22 million.<ref>Focus on Filmland: Young Screenwriters, New Hollywood Breed, Zoom to Superstardom They Receive Up to $400,000 For Scripts and the Right To Direct Own Material Crisp Nostalgia or Rehash? Focus of Filmland: Screenwriters Are Zooming to New Superstardom
By EARL C. GOTTSCHALK JR. Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Wall Street Journal 31 July 1975: 1.</ref>


The artist [[Lilly Fenichel]] served as the film's art director.<ref>[http://artlinesarchive.blogspot.com/2011/07/lilly-fenichel-i-dont-make-hemline-art.html "Lilly Fenichel: 'I Don't Make Hemline Art' (1984)"]. ''ARTLines Archive'', July 30, 2011. Originally published 1984.</ref>
The artist [[Lilly Fenichel]] served as the film's art director.<ref>[http://artlinesarchive.blogspot.com/2011/07/lilly-fenichel-i-dont-make-hemline-art.html "Lilly Fenichel: 'I Don't Make Hemline Art' (1984)"]. ''ARTLines Archive'', July 30, 2011. Originally published 1984.</ref>


"I will never make another film on water," said Donen later. "I can't tell you how painful it is."<ref name="unlucky"/>

"I'm going bananas," said Hackman. "The work is not satisfying."<ref name="unlucky"/>
===New Ending===
In the original script, the two male leads were killed by government agents and the final scene happened ten years later with Liza Minnelli's character married to a boring businessman remembering the men she once loved. The writers said when they sold it, "The studio loved the script, and at that point no one objected to the ending."<ref name="new">Why Couldn't This 'Lady' Have an Unhappy Ending?: Why No Unhappy Ending for 'Lady'?
By STEPHEN FARBER. New York Times 14 Dec 1975: D1. </ref>

"One of the first images in our minds when we began to work on the script was the ending," said Katz. "The idea of this woman remembering the two men she loved. We worked backwards from that. To us, the romance of the piece was in the idea of separation and loss.<ref name="new"/>

Because the film was booked in for a Christmas release, Donen only had three months to edit the film. During this time Donen became concerned about the ending, feeling that the film had become much lighter than originally intended, and tried several different ones, including simply cutting off the final ten minutes. He eventually decided the film needed a happy ending and Fox agreed to finance a reshot scene. Because Minelli was filming ''A Matter of Time'' in Rome, Donen, Hackman and Reynolds flew to Rome in November and shot a new ending.<ref name="new"/> The ending consisted of the three characters in bed together ten years later.<ref name="end"/>

Huyck and Katz wrote the new ending, albeit reluctantly. "To us the original ending made a comment about the choices a woman has to make. But instead of making it the story of this woman, Stanley has made it a story of three people. That's valid. It's just different from what we originally intended."<ref name="new"/>

It was decided that the new ending was not suitable, in part due to poor make up. So a third ending was used, which cut off the last ten minutes of the film.<ref name="end"/>

Minnelli later criticized Donen for taking "out the part that made you feel like the three of us are in peril. I saw the finished picture and I never once was afraid for us. Most of the serious moments were removed too."<ref name="liza"/>

Reynolds and Minnelli both criticized the new ending, requesting that the studio show the three different endings to the press. Donen refused and since he had final cut the studio backed him. Donen called Minnelli an "emotional child" for this criticism.<ref name="end">Fox's 'Lucky Lady' at Loose Ends: CALL SHEET
Murphy, Mary. Los Angeles Times17 Dec 1975: h19. </ref>
==Release==
==Release==
===Box Office===
The film earned rentals of $12.1 million in North America.<ref>Solomon, Aubrey. ''Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series)''. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. {{ISBN|978-0-8108-4244-1}}. p233. Please note figures are rentals accruing to distributors and not total gross.</ref><ref name="film">SECOND ANNUAL GROSSES GLOSS
The film earned rentals of $12.1 million in North America.<ref>Solomon, Aubrey. ''Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series)''. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. {{ISBN|978-0-8108-4244-1}}. p233. Please note figures are rentals accruing to distributors and not total gross.</ref><ref name="film">SECOND ANNUAL GROSSES GLOSS
Byron, Stuart. Film Comment; New York Vol. 13, Iss. 2, (Mar/Apr 1977): 35-37,64. </ref>
Byron, Stuart. Film Comment; New York Vol. 13, Iss. 2, (Mar/Apr 1977): 35-37,64. </ref>

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Lucky Lady
Theatrical poster by Richard Amsel
Directed byStanley Donen
Written byWillard Huyck
Gloria Katz
Produced byMichael Gruskoff
StarringGene Hackman
Liza Minnelli
Burt Reynolds
CinematographyGeoffrey Unsworth
Edited byPeter Boita
Music byRalph Burns
Production
company
Gruskoff/Venture Films
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
December 25, 1975 (1975-12-25)
Running time
118 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$12,107,000[1] [2]
Box office$24,441,725[3]

Lucky Lady is a 1975 American comedy-drama film directed by Stanley Donen and starring Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli, and Burt Reynolds, with Robby Benson. Its story takes place in 1930 during Prohibition in the United States.

On February 1, 2011 Shout! Factory released the film on DVD for the first time.[4]

The film is notable for serving as a storefront for George Lucas and Gary Kurtz who were looking for crew to assist with the look of Star Wars. Both visited the set during production and were impressed with what they saw. Several of the many British crew were effectively recruited during this visit.

Plot

During the Prohibition era, a young widow, Claire, gets involved in liquor smuggling and romance with two men, Walker and Kibby, off the San Diego coast. Organized crime controls bootlegging back east and wants to do the same here, so a hit man named McTeague is sent to deal with these amateur crooks, as is the Coast Guard, leading to various battles at sea.

Cast

Production

Development

Katz and Huyck at the time were best known for writing American Grafitti. Before that film came out they were struggling writers, looking for an original project. While Huyck was in the Army reserves, Katz was in the UCLA library "looking for anything for an idea."[5] She came across an article in American Mercury magazine about rumrunners operating off Ensenada during prohibition and, feeling that it had never been used for a film before, started researching the period. When Huyck got out of the army they brought the idea to Mike Gruskoff, a producer, who liked the similarities to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and agreed to finance them writing it for $75,000[5]

They worked on the script script for six months. "It took us a long time to get our characters down," said Katz. "We tried it a lot of different ways. And we did a lot of research into the period and the language."[5]

When they handed the script in, Groskoff sold the film within eighteen hours to 20th Century Fox for $450,000, which was then a record amount for an original screenplay. They were helped by the fact that American Graffiti had since come out and been a huge success.[5][6]

"Mike Gruskoff was incredible, just incredible at selling a script," said Katz. "He got it immediately to the heads of the studios and he sold it very, very fast."[5]

The producer paid the writers $100,000 of the $450,000.[7]

Director

The writers wanted Steven Spielberg to direct and he was interested but had made a commitment to do Jaws.[8] Eventually Stanley Donen signed.[9] Donen's fee was $600,000, Grusskoff's was $400,000.[10]

Katz said, "our reaction was, Stanley Donen seems so bizarre for this kind of film! Then we realized he's the ideal director because he is really a romantic director, and he can do this kind of character stuff and the kind of humor that the film has."[5]

Some changes to the script were made. "Stanley wanted very much to play up the relationships, the menage-à-trois," said Huyck. "Which was fine with us. The script was probably overloaded with action since we wanted to sell it. Actually, action is boring to write. We have much more fun with dialogue."[5]

"Stanley's big emphasis to us is that you must love the characters," said Katz. "And any place he feels the characters are being lost, he wants us to put in something to develop the characters further. "[5]

Casting

The writers said their inspiration for the lead characters were Jean Harlow, Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy.[5]

It took 18 months for Donen to cast the film. Donen says this was due to problems with billing, pay and the fact the woman's role was central made it difficult to find male stars to play opposite her.[7]

"We thought the idea of three stars was a terrific notion because it would make Lucky Lady very salable and very castable," said Katz. "Ironically, it made it salable, but casting turned out to be a very big problem because one of the three stars was a woman. A lot of male actors didn't want to be in an ensemble piece or a piece with a woman as a strong character."[5]

The only two female stars considered "bankable" at the time were Barbra Streisand and Liza Minnelli. Minnelli was the first star cast, for a minimum of $350,000.[10][2] Donen originally wanted Paul Newman, who also wanted Spielberg to direct,[11] and Warren Beatty for the lead male roles with production scheduled to begin in October 1974. However the stars could not be locked down.

Later, in November 1974, Burt Reynolds was signed along with George Segal.[12] Huyck said Reynolds "didn't really like doing macho roles, he didn't want to play the tough guy role, he wanted the silly part."[2] Reynolds' fee was reportedly $500,000, Seagal's $750,000.[10]

Reynolds said it was "very important" the film was a success "since my last three films went down the tubes."[7]

Segal later dropped out of the project and was quickly replaced with Hackman.[13]

Gene Hackman initially did not want to do the film, but 20th Century Fox kept offering him more and more money. Finally, Fox offered him $1.25 million, and according to talent agent Sue Mengers, "it was almost obscene for him not to do the film."[14] "I was seduced," said Hackman.[7]

Shooting

Filming began in Guaymas, Mexico in February 1975 and finished in July of that year. It was an exceedingly difficult shoot, compounded by the isolation of the location, poor weather, and the fact so much of it was shot on water.[7]

"I remember water," said Minnelli later. "For days. And shrimp. That's all we ate - shrimp. We were stranded. There was no TV, no radio, no American papers. The only way we knew what was going on away from the location was by telephone."[15]

The film went over budget to nearly $13 million.[9] Other estimates put it as high as $22 million.[16]

The artist Lilly Fenichel served as the film's art director.[17]

"I will never make another film on water," said Donen later. "I can't tell you how painful it is."[7]

"I'm going bananas," said Hackman. "The work is not satisfying."[7]

New Ending

In the original script, the two male leads were killed by government agents and the final scene happened ten years later with Liza Minnelli's character married to a boring businessman remembering the men she once loved. The writers said when they sold it, "The studio loved the script, and at that point no one objected to the ending."[9]

"One of the first images in our minds when we began to work on the script was the ending," said Katz. "The idea of this woman remembering the two men she loved. We worked backwards from that. To us, the romance of the piece was in the idea of separation and loss.[9]

Because the film was booked in for a Christmas release, Donen only had three months to edit the film. During this time Donen became concerned about the ending, feeling that the film had become much lighter than originally intended, and tried several different ones, including simply cutting off the final ten minutes. He eventually decided the film needed a happy ending and Fox agreed to finance a reshot scene. Because Minelli was filming A Matter of Time in Rome, Donen, Hackman and Reynolds flew to Rome in November and shot a new ending.[9] The ending consisted of the three characters in bed together ten years later.[18]

Huyck and Katz wrote the new ending, albeit reluctantly. "To us the original ending made a comment about the choices a woman has to make. But instead of making it the story of this woman, Stanley has made it a story of three people. That's valid. It's just different from what we originally intended."[9]

It was decided that the new ending was not suitable, in part due to poor make up. So a third ending was used, which cut off the last ten minutes of the film.[18]

Minnelli later criticized Donen for taking "out the part that made you feel like the three of us are in peril. I saw the finished picture and I never once was afraid for us. Most of the serious moments were removed too."[15]

Reynolds and Minnelli both criticized the new ending, requesting that the studio show the three different endings to the press. Donen refused and since he had final cut the studio backed him. Donen called Minnelli an "emotional child" for this criticism.[18]

Release

Box Office

The film earned rentals of $12.1 million in North America.[19][1]

Additional information

This film was also released under the following titles:

  • Abenteurer auf der Lucky Lady - West Germany
  • Belali sevgili - Turkey
  • I tyheri kyria - Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title)
  • In 3 sul Lucky Lady - Italy
  • Los aventureros de Lucky Lady - Spain
  • Oh, vilket sjöslag! - Sweden
  • Os aventureiros de Lucky Lady - Brazil (TV title)
  • Tre smarte smuglere på 'Lucky Lady' - Denmark
  • Uma Mulher dos Diabos - Portugal (imdb display title)
  • Una dama con suerte - Venezuela
  • Viskiseikkailu Lucky Ladyllä - Finland

Soundtrack

  • "Empty Bed Blues" - Written by J.C. Johnson, Performed by Bessie Smith
  • "Ain't Misbehavin'" - Music by Fats Waller and Harry Brooks, Lyrics by Andy Razaf, Performed by Burt Reynolds
  • "A Hot Time in the Old Town" - Music by Theo. A. Metz, Lyrics by Joe Hayden, Performed by Bessie Smith
  • " (Get) While the Getting is Good" - Written by John Kander and Fred Ebb, Performed by Liza Minnelli
  • "Lucky Lady Montage" - Written by John Kander and Fred Ebb, Performed by Liza Minnelli
  • "Lucky Lady (reprise)" - Written by John Kander and Fred Ebb, Performed by Liza Minnelli

References

  1. ^ a b SECOND ANNUAL GROSSES GLOSS Byron, Stuart. Film Comment; New York Vol. 13, Iss. 2, (Mar/Apr 1977): 35-37,64.
  2. ^ a b c From low-budgets to 'Lucky Lady': Married co-workers make $12 million film By Nora E. Taylor. The Christian Science Monitor 24 Dec 1975: 11.
  3. ^ "Lucky Lady, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
  4. ^ "Lucky Lady, 1975". Amazon. Retrieved May 15, 2012.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Gloria Katz-Willard Huyck Interview Warren, Madeline; Levine, Robert A. Film Comment; New York Vol. 11, Iss. 2, (Mar/Apr 1975): 47-53.
  6. ^ Screenwriter as Star: Shaking the Shackles Laskos, Andrew. Los Angeles Times 29 Aug 1976: k1.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g 'Lucky Lady' Filming Just Plain Unlucky: 'Lucky' Filming Plain Unlucky 'Lucky' Filming Plain Unlucky 'Lucky' Filming Plain Unlucky Murphy, Mary. Los Angeles Times 29 June 1975: t1.
  8. ^ "FORTUNE AND GLORY: Writers of Doom! Quint interviews Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz!" Aint It Cool New 23 May 2014 accessed 23 April 2015
  9. ^ a b c d e f Why Couldn't This 'Lady' Have an Unhappy Ending?: Why No Unhappy Ending for 'Lady'? By STEPHEN FARBER. New York Times 14 Dec 1975: D1.
  10. ^ a b c 'Inferno' 'Lady' Pile Up Payrolls Los Angeles Times 26 Nov 1974: e6.
  11. ^ Freer, Ian (9 May 2014). "Steven Spielberg's Interstellar?! The 19 Films He Nearly Made". Empire (film magazine). Retrieved 17 July 2018. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  12. ^ That's Liza With an 'L' for Lucky Los Angeles Times 19 Nov 1974: f9.
  13. ^ "Burt Reynolds Goes Two-for-Two on Xmas". Video Junkie. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  14. ^ Litwak, Mark (1986). Reel Power: The Struggle for Influence and Success in the New Hollywood. New York: William Morrow and Company. p. 86. ISBN 0-688-04889-7.
  15. ^ a b Minnelli talks movies and gets the pictures Siskel, Gene. Chicago Tribune 19 Sep 1976: e3.
  16. ^ Focus on Filmland: Young Screenwriters, New Hollywood Breed, Zoom to Superstardom They Receive Up to $400,000 For Scripts and the Right To Direct Own Material Crisp Nostalgia or Rehash? Focus of Filmland: Screenwriters Are Zooming to New Superstardom By EARL C. GOTTSCHALK JR. Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Wall Street Journal 31 July 1975: 1.
  17. ^ "Lilly Fenichel: 'I Don't Make Hemline Art' (1984)". ARTLines Archive, July 30, 2011. Originally published 1984.
  18. ^ a b c Fox's 'Lucky Lady' at Loose Ends: CALL SHEET Murphy, Mary. Los Angeles Times17 Dec 1975: h19.
  19. ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p233. Please note figures are rentals accruing to distributors and not total gross.

External links

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