Three acting awards were passed over: Jack Lemmon for Best Actor, Shirley MacLaine for Best Actress and Jack Kruschen for Best Supporting Actor.Outside the palace perimeter, a ghastly, bloody Shiva shrine scared off the guides and elephants.Forced to walk to the palace, they were welcomed by Prime Minister Chattar Lal (Roshan Seth) and British Captain Phillip Blumburtt (Philip Stone) of the Indian Army, there on a "routine inspection tour.There are many wonderful scenes, beginning with the snowy opening title credits.Amy (Joan Bennett) often uses amusing malapropisms: ("I know what I mean, and you needn""t be ""statirical about it! It""s proper to use good words and improve your ""vocabilary"""), and Jo""s enthusiastic favorite expression is: "Christopher Columbus!".The film""s screenplay (by director Billy Wilder and screenwriting partner Charles Brackett) was based on Charles R.