Their suggestions, hat she avoid both matrimony and selling her body, offer no other possible avenues of escape in her future:Lucy""s surroundings have not been the most cheerful.J.- and suck in the sweet smell of success!The film""s central actor, Burt Lancaster, also served (with his press agent Harold Hecht) as the head of the film""s production company (with hits includingThe Flame and the Arrow (1950),Apache (1954),Vera Cruz (1954), Best Picture winnerMarty (1955), andTrapeze (1956)).He showed her a defensive helmet that the Russians had constructed for him - to prevent telepathic powers from "getting into his head.Prudence bullies her way into opera box A with Marguerite and displaces Olympe (Lenore Ulric), so that hey can be in an advantageous, pre-arranged spot to be met by the Baron, rather than in their own Box B.Even the housekeeper blurts out: "How about lunch? Are the gentlemen going to stay or not?" Deeds responds by inviting the group to stay and join him for lunch, specifically recommending the housekeeper""s "fresh orange layer cake.