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Jones was friends with her late co-star Gordon MacRae and his ex-wife Sheila, and he was named godfather to her first son, Shaun Cassidy.

She also admitted that she had a crush on MacRae and was starstruck when she worked opposite him on Oklahoma!

and states she is the one who convinced MacRae to take the part as Billy Bigelow in Carousel.

Frank Sinatra, who had originally been cast, suddenly dropped out during the first days of filming because each scene had to be shot twice.

Once in CinemaScope 55 ( a wider-than-usual, 55 millimeter, 6-track stereo system.

) and once in 35mm CinemaScope.

Sinatra felt that he should have been paid twice because technically he was shooting two films.

Three weeks after he left, they found a way to film the scene once on 55mm, then transfer it onto 35mm.