Talk:Promises! Promises!

Budget Discrepancy
Near the beginning the article says the film had a budget of $200,000. But near the end it says that Mansfield's $150,000 salary was half of the film's budget. So was the budget $200k or $300k? --Kitsunegami (talk) 06:45, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

Help needed
The article had the following in earlier versions: I have removed both, because neither could be verified. Can someone help with these? I still believe there's some amount of useful fact there. Aditya (talk • contribs) 02:58, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Mansfield received $150,000 for her role (half of the film's budget) and 10% of the film's profits.
 * The reviews included Los Angeles Herald-Examiner writing - "The film is a bust", and Variety writing - "The only excuse for this shabby self-propelled contrivance is that obviously there is an audience waiting to devour it."

Jayne is not Marilyn
"...though had the unfinished Something's Got to Give, which starred Marilyn Monroe, been released in 1962 as planned, it would have been entitled to claim that distinction." And, if wishes had been horses, as planned, then pigs would fly. It's nice that Hollywood and Marilyn had an equally-important movie planned, but that's not an excuse for distracting from the importance of this film. Whbjr (talk) 00:25, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

"Is that a real person's real name?"
"...had to fly in Jet Fore..."? That just looks so funny! So that is not an airplane? 🤔 LeoStarDragon1 (talk) 10:37, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Jet Fore. Not an RS, but you get an idea.  Aditya (✉ • ⚒) 17:20, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Ebert
I have removed the bolded sentence from the Reception section:

"Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert wrote, "Finally, in 'Promises, Promises' she did what no Hollywood actress ever does except in desperation: she made a nudie. By 1963, that kind of box office appeal was about all she had left." Despite Ebert's claim, seven years after Mansfield's groundbreaking move, major female Hollywood stars were doing nude scenes in Hollywood productions.[citation needed]"

It appears that the person who added it is under the mistaken impression that "making a nudie" means appearing nude in a movie. It is a specific reference to cheapo sexploitation pictures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Soulnus (talk • contribs) 05:12, 7 December 2020 (UTC)


 * That was the right thing to do. A prejudiced and unsubstantiated claim has no place in Wikipedia. Aditya (✉ • ⚒) 09:15, 7 December 2020 (UTC)