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.And so to Rome, the Eternal City, where the Princess' visit was marked by a spectacular military parade.Prince John speaks to the gathered throng:Well, this is what we Normans like - good food, good company, and a beautiful woman to flatter me.The film's screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky transformed his own original teleplay into a successful major motion picture - and the modest film remains one of the best examples of the cinematization of a television play.