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re: Why wasn't Sandy Dennis in the movie version of "A Thousand Clowns?"

Posted by: AlanScott 07:24 am EDT 03/12/14
In reply to: re: Why wasn't Sandy Dennis in the movie version of "A Thousand Clowns?" - TheOtherOne 06:43 am EDT 03/12/14
Well, her first major film role was in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which was released just four months before Any Wednesday. So she would not have been considered any sort of movie star when they were casting the film. (Her role in Splendor in the Grass certainly didn't make her a movie star.)

Also, they might well have wanted someone sexier for Any Wednesday. Part of Dennis's stage success in the role seems to have come because she was somewhat miscast and that gave the role something unexpected. Probably would not have worked as well onscreen.

And here's what she had to say about the play in that Reed interview (from the week before Virginia Woolf opened). After talking about how she was wrong for The Three Sisters, she said, "I was wrong for Any Wednesday, too. Everybody said, 'Isn't she adorable,' but I did much better work in A Thousand Clowns. I was sick of Wednesday before it even opened. I stuck with it for over a year by the skin of my teeth, and was lucky to get out alive."


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