The Happiest Millionaire [1967]

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• A payphone from the movie is now at Disneyland Park's Club 33 and fully functional. Guests can make calls free of charge.
• Richard M. Sherman had reservations about whether Fred MacMurray was right for the part of Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, but Walt Disney overruled him.
• Bill Walsh was the original choice for producer. He came up with the idea of making this film into a musical, but Walt Disney moved him onto Blackbeard's Ghost instead. Ironically, that film ended up out-grossing this one by a wide margin.
• In the film, Cordelia Drexel Biddle is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Angie Duke is from New York City. In real life, Lesley Ann Warren, who played Cordelia, was born in New York City, while John Davidson, who played Angie, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• After the film's initial release, this film went unseen for many years, without a theatrical re-release or even a TV screening on [Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color], until the 144-minute version was first released on video in the US in 1983.
• The song {Fortuosity} was written for Tommy Steele. It replaced a song called {Off Rittenhouse Square}, a demo of which appeared on the film's CD soundtrack reissue in 2002.
• ^[?] Bill Anderson and ^[?] E. Cardon Walker, who became COO of Walt Disney Productions when Disney died, fought bitterly over the extent of the cuts and almost stopped talking because of it.
• Running at 172 minutes, the uncut "Roadshow" version is the longest film ever to carry the Disney name (excluding Touchstone, Hollywood, and Miramax releases).
• The last live-action film that Walt Disney worked on. At the time of his death, the crew had completed principal photography, but post-production had not begun. It was with this film that the studio's trend of subjecting its live-action musicals wholesale cuts began. Radio City Music Hall, the site of the film's New York premiere, had a Disney-themed Christmas stage show and demanded cuts to accommodate it.