Quiz

It was Lee Majors who got then-girlfriend Farrah Fawcett involved in this movie. He was sought for the role of Rusty but turned it down. However, he did introduce the producers to Fawcett, who had done several television commercials by that time, and she was hired to play Mary Ann. She later told Rona Barrett, "It was a terrible picture. But it taught me a lot about egos and star-trips. Everyone was on that!"

Bette Davis emphatically turned down the role of Leticia Van Allen, expressing her contempt for the book.

In a book about the making of this movie, producer David Giler said that he came to the set one day to find out why filming was so far behind schedule and discovered that the entire cast and crew had been kept sitting around most of the day (on full salary) while writer and director Michael Sarne photographed a cake for eight hours. He was also told by cast and crew members that Sarne would go off in a corner and "think" for six to seven hours at a stretch, during which time shooting would come to a standstill. According to Giler, such antics were one of the reasons that this movie went so far over budget, and he and the other producer demanded that the studio fire him, but it was in Sarne's contract that he could not be fired until he turned in the first cut.

Rex Reed originally refused to say the line, "Where are my tits? Where are my tits?" However, the producers informed him that if he didn't say the line, they would use an establishing shot with a voice impressionist yelling "WHERE ARE MY TITS? WHERE ARE MY TITS?" He reluctantly agreed to say the line.

Raquel Welch was extremely welcoming to Rex Reed on the set. The columnist was new to filmmaking and said it was remarkable how helpful she was. Welch even appeared with Reed when they shot his screentest, which most A-list actors and actresses decline to do.