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.Nobody important, really.Just a movie writer with a couple of ""B"" pictures to his credit.The poor dope! He always wanted a pool.Well, in the end, he got himself a pool - only the price turned out to be a little high.[Note:The mansion, formerly belonging to J.Paul Getty, was on Wilshire Blvd.at Irving Blvd.Today, a Getty Oil office building stands on the site.Five years later, the same pool on the grounds of the deserted Getty mansion was used for one of the final scenes inRebel Without a Cause (1955).The film was the precursor for another inspirational and popular film (and a similar adaptation of a Stephen King story by writer/director Frank Darabont) -The Green Mile (1999).His elder sister Ruby (Anabel Shaw) who raised him describes her maternal care toward her orphaned brother:Ruby: I""m not only his big sister, but mother and father too.