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The African Queen
Hepburn wrote about her experiences shooting the film in her memoir, The Making of the African Queen: Or How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall, and Huston and almost lost my mind.

The Misfits
Miller dramatized the making of The Misfits in his final play, Finishing the Picture, where Huston is represented as the director.

Promotion of Irish Filmmaking
I think the politicians who supported building the studio can take consolation in the fact that it’s brought a lot of money to Ireland. We’re spending more than a million dollars in Ireland and we wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for Ardmore.

While working on the film Casino Royale, Huston took interest in the Irish film industry, which had struggled to find domestic and international success. There were rumors that he would buy Ireland’s premiere film location, Ardmore Studios in Bray, County Wicklow. In 1967, Huston gave Taoiseach Jack Lynch a tour of Ardmore and asked to form a committee to spearhead the creation of an Irish film industry.

Lynch also ultimately agreed to offer tax breaks to foreign production companies if they shot in location in Ireland through the Film Act of 1970.

Huston was interviewed in Irish journalist Peter Lennon’s film Rocky Road to Dublin, where he argued that it was more important for Irish filmmakers to make films in Ireland than for foreign production companies to make international films.