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" After Gardner backed out — the Associated Press reported in November 1962 it was because The Mirisch Company wouldn't meet all her demands — Ustinov also left the project, and Blake Edwards then chose Sellers to replace Ustinov. Janet Leigh turned the lead female role down as she would have been away from the United States for too long a period.

Sellers and from
He co-founded The Goon Show radio show with Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, but appeared in only the first 38 shows on the BBC Light Programme from 1951 to 1953.
On his return he parted amicably from his partners and continued touring in variety, remaining close to Secombe and Sellers for the rest of his life.
He worked as a scriptwriter for Peter Sellers and then on 39 episodes of his own radio show Round the Bend in 30 Minutes, which has also been wiped from the BBC archive.
Five of the those involved Edwards and Sellers in original material, while Trail of the Pink Panther, made after Sellers died in 1980, was made up of unused material from The Pink Panther Strikes Again.
Among Loren's best-known films of this period are Samuel Bronston's epic production of El Cid ( 1961 ) with Charlton Heston, The Millionairess ( 1960 ) with Peter Sellers, It Started in Naples ( 1960 ) with Clark Gable, Vittorio De Sica's triptych Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow ( 1963 ) with Marcello Mastroianni, Peter Ustinov's Lady L ( 1965 ) with Paul Newman, the 1966 classic Arabesque with Gregory Peck, and Charlie Chaplin's final film, A Countess from Hong Kong ( 1967 ) with Marlon Brando.
More recent animated depictions of Chief Inspector Clouseau from the 1970s on were redesigned to more closely resemble Sellers and, later, Martin.
The exact number of copies sold has never been audited ; however, a figure of at least 25 million was cited by the Guinness Book of World Records in its category " Phonograph records: Biggest Sellers " from the early 1970s until the 1990s, when the advent of compact discs led to Guinness discontinuing the category.
Also, a selection of games from other companies other than Blizzard have been included in the Best Sellers Series.
Sellers was familiar with the film because, according to Brooks, Sellers had accepted the role of Bloom and then was never heard from again.
Sellers might agree to sell at a common target price ; set a common minimum price ; buy the product from a supplier at a specified maximum price ; adhere to a price book or list price ; engage in cooperative price advertising ; standardize financial credit terms offered to purchasers ; use uniform trade-in allowances ; limit discounts ; discontinue a free service or fix the price of one component of an overall service ; adhere uniformly to previously-announced prices and terms of sale ; establish uniform costs and markups ; impose mandatory surcharges ; purposefully reduce output or sales in order to charge higher prices ; or purposefully share or pool markets, territories, or customers.
The community's name was officially changed from Sellers to Norco sometime after 1926.
Offutt was brought to popular attention during its SAC period when the command was depicted in the 1955 film Strategic Air Command starring Jimmy Stewart, the 1963 film A Gathering of Eagles starring Rock Hudson, and 1964's Fail-Safe starring Henry Fonda ( which not only claimed to show portions of the base but also a nearby Omaha neighborhood ) and Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb starring Peter Sellers ( which depicts a nuclear first strike from a mad general at the fictional Burpelson Air Force Base ).
In fact, the impact of the glass industry was so significant that the city's name actually comes from Jeannette E. Hartupee McKee, the wife of H. Sellers McKee, a local industrialist who cofounded the Chambers and McKee Glass Works and was a member of the elite South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club of Johnstown Flood fame.
* NFL Washington Redskins Pro Bowl Fullback Mike Sellers graduated from North Thurston High School, and returns to Lacey in the off-season.
Schneider co-stared with Peter O ' Toole, Peter Sellers and Woody Allen ; the film was made from his first screenplay.
Ashby was in London, England meeting with Peter Sellers about doing Being There when he received a phone call from Jones who told him that Columbia was fed up with the time it was taking for the film to be assembled.
One cut of the film includes bloopers from a deleted scene, played during the closing credits: Sellers, lying on a gurney, tries in vain to recite the " message " given by the gang leader ( one of the gang members is played by future Allman Brothers band bassist Oteil Burbridge ), which includes quite a bit of swearing, with a straight face.
Peter Sellers as the title character from Dr. Strangelove
According to Woody Allen ( in a New York Times interview from January 30, 2000 ), W. C. Fields is one of only six " genuine comic geniuses " he recognized as such in movie history, along with Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho and Harpo Marx, and Peter Sellers.
Founded in 1994 by Ross Smith, Gary Tarolli and Scott Sellers ( all SGI alumni ) with backing from Gordie Campbell's TechFarm, 3dfx released its Voodoo Graphics chip in 1996.
* In Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove, the eponymous character played by Peter Sellers is shown to be suffering from alien hand syndrome.
Their original role as part of an army officer's uniform lent the trench coat a businesslike respectability, whilst fictional heroes as diverse as the Tenth Doctor, Eleventh Doctor, Captain Jack Harkness, Captain Mal Reynolds, Castiel, Columbo, Dick Tracy, Mike Hammer, the Crow, the Phantom, Humphrey Bogart's Rick Blaine from Casablanca, and Peter Sellers ' Inspector Clouseau kept the coat in the public eye.

Sellers and playing
* A 7090 / 1401 installation is featured in the motion picture Dr. Strangelove, with the 1403 printer playing a pivotal role in the plot ( it is the hiding place for a transistor radio ; which, when found and turned on by one of the three characters played by Peter Sellers in the film, reveals that the nuclear attack ordered by the deranged Air Force base commander is phony, and must be stopped at all costs ).
The attempts at humour continued on Commoners Crown ( 1975 ), which included Peter Sellers playing electric ukelele on the final track, " New York Girls ".
Hall and Flakus later recruited Jim Sellers on bass and Chris Vrenna ( Nine Inch Nails ) on drums, as Hall had met Vrenna when playing in Die Warzau.
Sellers met Berry and they began playing together in various groups and sessions.
* Geoffrey Rush ( playing Peter Sellers ) thanks a crowd who attended the premiere of one of the Pink Panther movies in character as Bluebottle in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.
In 1964, Jack Arnold produced a television pilot based on the film, with Sid Caesar playing the three roles that Sellers had played, but it was not picked up for production.

Sellers and character
The bumbling Inspector Clouseau was a character Sellers would continue to return to over the next decade.
A character called McGoonagall frequently appears in The Goon Show, alternately played by Milligan and Peter Sellers.
" They refer especially to the Pink Panthers Clouseau, developed with the comedic skills of Peter Sellers, as a character " perfectly consistent " with his " absurdist view of the world, because he has no faith in anything and constantly adapts.
Sellers said in several interviews that the secret of Clouseau ’ s character was his tremendous ego.
In this film, Sellers started to present the idiosyncratically exaggerated French accent that became a hallmark of the character.
The 1968 film does appear to have had an impact on the Clouseau character when Sellers returned to the role in 1975's The Return of the Pink Panther, particularly in the character's mode of dress.
That film also marked the return of Sellers to the role after a gap of ten years, which may have contributed to some confusion between the character and the diamond.
The brownie was used in the 1968 film I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, in which a character portrayed by Peter Sellers becomes disillusioned with his mainstream life after falling in love with a free spirit, only to become just as disillusioned with the hippie subculture.
During the several years between the novel's publication and the film's production, Peter Sellers reportedly engaged in a determined quest to obtain the rights to bring the story to the screen and portray its lead character, sending several postcards and letters signed " Chance " to Jerzy Kosinski and Hal Ashby.
Captain Webb's picture on boxes of Bryant and May matches is said to be the inspiration for the character of Clouseau, portrayed originally in the Pink Panther movies by Peter Sellers.
Ruth Boswell wanted Lynn Frederick ( later the last wife of Peter Sellers ) for Carol, the female lead, but following a meeting with her, Paul Bernard felt she was a bit too upper class and precious for what he had in mind as he saw the character as being similar to Doctor Who's Jo Grant.
* In the 1968 film The Party, Peter Sellers ' character drives a Morgan Sports Model.
In the 1959 LP Songs for Swinging Sellers, Peter Sellers included a character " Twit Conway ", who was a rock singer.
* The Pink PantherThe character of Norton resembles both Peter Sellers ( his non-moustache side ) and the Sellers-played character Inspector Jacques Clouseau ( his moustache side ).
Sanders ' smooth voice, urbane manner and upper-class British accent inspired Peter Sellers ' character " Hercules Grytpype-Thynne " in the famous 1950s BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show.
* The 1950s BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show often made reference to the NAAFI in scripts, mostly by Peter Sellers ' character, Major Dennis Bloodnok.
According to Miller, Peter Sellers quietly paid Southern tens of thousands of dollars to create some of the best-known comedy bits for Sellers ' character Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther film series.
The cast was headed by Sellers ( as Guy Grand ) and Ringo Starr as his son Youngman Grand ( a new character created for the movie ), with cameo appearances by Spike Milligan, Christopher Lee, Laurence Harvey, Raquel Welch, Roman Polanski and Yul Brynner.
* Peter Bull briefly breaks character in the film Dr. Strangelove, as he begins to laugh at the over-the-top behavior of Peter Sellers ' character ( Dr. Strangelove ), but regains his composure.

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