Richard Benjamin said of Ali MacGraw: "The camera looks into your soul, and it looked into Ali's. Men loved her, women loved her. She was a real movie star."
The wedding scene, as filmed, included a ten-minute speech by Monroe Arnold as Uncle Leo. However, it didn't fit the mood of the rest of the picture, and was cut to 45 seconds. It was a bitter blow to Arnold, and helped him decide to retire from acting not long afterward.
Included among the American Film Institute's year 2000 list of the 500 movies nominated for the Top 100 Funniest American Movies.