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The Boy Friend (1971) More at IMDbPro »

• The cameo role played by Glenda Jackson was originally offered to Julie Andrews, who had debuted in the original West End and Broadway productions of "The Boy Friend" in 1954.
  
  
• The theatre used in this film was The New Theatre Royal in Portsmouth. This is not the same theatre in which Ken Russell filmed the Pinball Wizard sequence in Tommy (1975), which was filmed at the Kings Theatre in Southsea. Both theatres are still very much active.
  
  
• Ranked #2 on the National Board of Review's top ten list for 1971.
  
  
• Though much more lighthearted than most of his films, according to Ken Russell, this was the most difficult film he ever made.
  
  
• Vladek Sheybal's character, the director De Thrill, was a parody of famed director Cecil B. DeMille, and in fact Sheybal wore a pair of the actual boots DeMille always wore.
  
  
• The screen rights for the film were originally bought by famed MGM producer Arthur Freed in 1967 for Debbie Reynolds to star. After Reynolds turned the part down, Liza Minnelli was briefly considered for the role of Polly Browne before Freed shelved the project to concentrate on his Irving Berlin revue, "Say It with Music" (which was never filmed).
  
  
• At the end of the film Murray Melvin's character says, "I think I'll take up the cloth." Melvin had played a demented priest in Ken Russell's previous film The Devils (1971).
  
  
• Last film of Max Adrian.
  
  

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