Mark Griffin (66 page)

Passport records reveal that Denise traveled under various names in the early 1950s, including “Danica Gay” and “Danica D. Guilianelli.”

As earlier with
The Bad and the Beautiful
, MGM’s initial choice for the role ultimately played by Kirk Douglas was Clark Gable.

An addendum to a 20th Century Fox Legal Department document dated May 25, 1961, notes that “20th will not require Miss Monroe to render services in a picture based on
Goodbye, Charlie
.”

Minnelli would marry fourth wife Lee Anderson on April 2, 1980. He was still married to Denise Giganti during the filming of
Goodbye, Charlie
.

Critics reviewing the Broadway version of
On a Clear Day
noted its vague resemblance to John L. Balderston’s
Berkeley Square
, a three-acter from 1929 that concerned a male protagonist time traveling from 1928 to 1784 to find his one true love.

Even among die-hard
Clear Day
fans, this missing number is something of a mystery. It’s often referred to as “E.S.P.,” which may have been the song’s title at one point. Stills of Streisand in a wild, futuristic outfit at the Central Park Zoo have surfaced, offering what appears to be a tantalizing glimpse of this deleted sequence. In Lerner’s script dated April 18, 1969, Montand’s character croons “People Like Me,” which features the lyrics, “To a sober-minded man of reason, E.S.P. is worse than treason.” It’s been suggested that throughout the song, there would have been cutaways to Streisand in her various incarnations—past, present, and future.

The novel was originally published as
La Volupté d’Etr
ê in 1954.

The character was eventually renamed
Nina
, which served as the film’s title before it was changed to
A Matter of Time
.

When Vestron Video released
A Matter of Time
to the home video market in the early 1980s, Liza’s rendition of the Gershwin’s “Do It Again” was deleted, apparently because of music clearance issues. With one of the film’s few unanimously praised sequences excised, the video incarnation of the film achieved the dubious distinction of mutilating an already mutilated work.