Lancaster had earlier played a similar manipulative huckster in the filmThe Rainmaker (1956).The film was very popular and a box-office hit - on a budget of $3 million, it grossed $11.3 million dollars.It was shot in the uncharacteristic and unfashionable aspect ratio of 1.33, in protest to the current prevailing trend for CinemaScope features.The film was nominated for five Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Score (Andre Previn)) and won three: Best Actor for Burt Lancaster (his sole Oscar win of four Best Actor nominations), Best Adapted Screenplay (Richard Brooks), and Best Supporting Actress (Shirley Jones with her sole Oscar nomination, known for her squeaky-clean role in TV""sThe Partridge Family)." BackgroundRose-Marie(1936) is the film with the best-remembered pairing of "America""s Singing Sweethearts.As C-3PO looked at Jabba the Hutt""s fortress-palace in the distance, he complained that rebel Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams) and Wookiee Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) never returned in their efforts to rescue Han Solo.He was tardy to a classroom of apes (both young and old), where a human Teacher named Abe (Noah Keen) taught reading and writing using the ape""s sacred law: "Ape shall never kill ape.