The big-budget horror film grossed about $33.4 million (on a budget of $2.3 million), and received two Academy Award nominations: one for Polanski""s Best Adapted Screenplay, and Ruth Gordon won the Best Supporting Actress award for her performance as one of the well-meaning, ""normal"" NYC neighbors.Her unheeded advice was o avoid using the newly-purchased stud horse for riding.And she predicted that the horse would cause injury - not realizing she was foreshadowing her own demise:A horse like that that cost you a lot of money for breedin"" stock, I""d use for breedin"".On opposite sides of the roulette wheel table in the casino, Robie and Mrs.Stevens gamble.While Robie plays with his gambling plaques in his hands, the chips are precariously placed above the deep cleavage of an elegant French woman (Gladys Holland) - a closeup shows the sexy view from his perspective.[The greatest difficulty with the film was that five alternative endings were shot (or created in the editing room), and it was undecided how the film would conclusively end.When she called him Erik ("Erik, I believe"), he responded: "I prefer Magneto" - using his new name as the founder of the Brotherhood of Mutants.