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Made for a cost of $ 4 million in the fall of 1955, it was the most expensive comedy film produced at the time.

The motion picture bombed at the box-office on its release, bringing in only $ 2. 2 million in receipts the following winter and spring of 1956.

Since then, it has become a television matinee favorite.

The film contains the famous exchange: " The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle ; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!

" ( mainly between Kaye and Mildred Natwick as Griselda ).