History Trivia / Sextette

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $7 million. Box office, '''$51,000'''. One of two films Creator/MaeWest made after coming out of retirement, with ''Film/MyraBreckinridge'' being the other, this adaptation of her play was also her final film. Part of the film's lack of appeal was presenting the [[FetishRetardant far past her prime West as a memetic sex goddess]] surrounded by much younger men (including Creator/TimothyDalton, her on-screen husband, who regards this as an OldShame).

* OldShame: Creator/TimothyDalton is pretty ashamed of this one, quite a rarity for him as he says he has good opinions and memories of almost everything he's done with just a couple exceptions.

* AwesomeDearBoy: Music/AliceCooper said in a later interview that he, [[Music/TheWho Keith Moon]] and [[Music/TheBeatles Ringo Starr]] all knew what a terrible trainwreck the movie was, but wanted to do a movie with Mae West just to say they did.

* CutSong: Ian Whitcomb wrote the song "She's Back Again", to be performed when Marlo arrives at the hotel, but it was ultimately replaced with "Hooray for Hollywood".

* DawsonCasting: It's painfully obvious that 85-year-old Creator/MaeWest is trying to pass herself off as someone about half a century younger. Though even this crew couldn't bring themselves to keep the line "Someday your looks will be gone" from "Love Will Keep Us Together," changing it to "Your looks will never be gone" (and demolishing the song's message in the process). They also had to change "Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen" to "Happy Birthday, Twenty-One" for obvious reasons.

* DawsonCasting: It's painfully obvious that 85-year-old Creator/MaeWest is trying to pass herself off as someone about half a century younger. Though even this crew couldn't bring themselves to keep the line "Someday your looks will be gone" from "Love Will Keep Us Together," changing it to "Your looks will never be gone" (and demolishing the song's message in the process).

** Creator/PeterOToole passed on the role of Sir Michael Barrington.

* TroubledProduction: Mostly due to Mae West's incredible age and out-of-control vanity and meddling (see below for more examples). Director Ken Hughes even found the original script so awful that he attempted to do on-set revisions for every scene just before shooting, and West, whether unable to quickly learn her new lines for the day or just senile, was instead fed them through an earpiece.[[note]]This led to an urban legend that West would accidentally pick up police bulletins and recite them ("That's a 608!"); it would later be attributed to Creator/MarlonBrando, who wore one after he refused to read the script while filming ''Film/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau''.[[/note]]

* WagTheDirector: Creator/MaeWest had a huge amount of creative control on the film-

* WagTheDirector:
** Creator/MaeWest had a huge amount of creative control on the film, outright vetoing the casting of Creator/CesarRomero and only very reluctantly allowing Creator/TonyCurtis to be cast. Her complaint? She thought they were too old to play her former husband... even though Romero was 14 years younger than West, and Curtis was ''32'' years younger than her.
*** An interview with longtime admirer and collaborator Ian Whitcomb reveals an ever darker side of this -- while West was consulting with a costumer on what dresses she wanted, she pointed to an old publicity photo featuring a former co-star of hers and declared she wanted not just an identical gown, but for ''him'' to be in the film as well. The costumer hesitantly replied that he'd been dead for over 20 years.

* DawsonCasting: It's painfully obvious that 85-year-old Creator/MaeWest is trying to pass herself off as someone about half a century younger.

* TroubledProduction: Mostly due to West's incredible age and out-of-control vanity (see below).

** Creator/MaeWest had a huge amount of creative control on the film, outright vetoing the casting of Creator/CesarRomero and only very reluctantly allowing Creator/TonyCurtis to be cast. Her complaint? She thought they were too old to play her former husband... even though Romero was 14 years younger than West, and Curtis was '''32''' years younger than her.

* WagTheDirector: Creator/MaeWest had a huge amount of creative control on the film, outright vetoing the casting of Creator/CesarRomero and only very reluctantly allowing Creator/TonyCurtis to be cast. Her complaint? She thought they were too old to play her former husband... even though Romero was 14 years younger than West, and Curtis was '''32''' years younger than her.

* NonSingingVoice: Timothy Dalton has said he's "pretty sure" his voice was dubbed while singing "Love Will Keep Us Together," though he did practice for quite a while to make it sound good.

* WagTheDirector: Mae West had a huge amount of creative control on the film, outright vetoing the casting of Cesar Romero and only very reluctantly allowing Tony Curtis to be cast. Her complaint? She thought they were too old to play her former husband... even though Romero was 14 years younger than West, and Curtis was '''32''' years younger than her.

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** [[Film/JamesBond James]] [[Creator/TimothyDalton Bond]] is Marlo's latest husband.
** Music/AliceCooper doing a showtune. Wat.

** AliceCooper doing a showtune. Wat.

* OldShame: Creator/TimothyDalton is pretty ashamed of this one, quite a rarity for him as he says he has good opinions and memories of almost everything he's done with just a couple exceptions.

* OldShame: Creator/TimothyDalton is pretty ashamed of this one.

** [[Franchise/JamesBond]] [[Creator/TimothyDalton Bond]] is Marlo's latest husband.