Director Billy Wilder""s original choice for the role of Sugar was Mitzi Gaynor, not Marilyn Monroe, and after Tony Curtis was signed on, Danny Kaye and Frank Sinatra were considered for the second male lead role before Lemmon was signed.It was the 15th highest-grossing (domestic) film of its year.The film was based upon the second published, fourth chronological C.S.Lewis novel of the same name.This film was the last Walt Disney produced/distributed film for the film series - the next film in the franchise would be distributed by 20th Century Fox...I can say without fear of contradiction that if Tira had have played the town at the time, Noah would have missed the boat.Her father - and his hired man - were also introduced in close-ups.The girl""s father had nothing to do so he got a hired man to help him.- Joe Keaton- Erwin ConnellyThe Boy began to sweep up the garbage and trash on the theater floor in the front entryway lobby into the theater.Meanwhile, he representative of the neighboring Sylvania [the name of the country where Jeanette MacDonald ruled in Ernst Lubitsch""sThe Love Parade (1929)], Ambassador and rival suitor Trentino (Louis Calhern), schemes to win Mrs.