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Love Nest (1951) More at IMDbPro »

• This was June Haver's only full-length film in black and white. Her other 14 releases between 1943 and 1953 were shot in three-strip Technicolor, something of a record for a Hollywood Golden Age actress. In addition, this was the only June Haver feature not to garner a contemporary New York Times review.
  
  
• Because the bathing suit Marilyn Monroe wears was so risqué (for the time) and caused such a commotion on the set, director Joseph M. Newman had to make it a closed set while she was filming.
  
  
• Final film appearance for both Frank Fay and Leatrice Joy.
  
  
• Charley refers to Eadie as 'Cynara, Lilith , Cleopatra and Helen of Troy'. 'Cynara' is the title of a poem by Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) (as well as the title of movie, Cynara (1932)). Lilith is also the name of a goddess/ demon of the night (from Mesopotamian mythology) and is also the name of Adam's 'first wife'.
  
  
• The Persian rug maker Charley refers to is Omar Khayyam and the quote is from "The Rubaiyat of Omart Khayyam".
  
  
• Gabriel Heatter (1890-1972) was a noted US radio broadcaster, particularly famous during World War II.
  
  
• Charley's quote from John Webster is from 'Westward Hoe' Act II Scene 2. It is also quite similar to one of the Apothegms of Francis Bacon (1561-1626) - "Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things, - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read".
  
  

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