40 Pounds of Trouble is a 1962 comedy film directed by Norman Jewison and starring Tony Curtis, Suzanne Pleshette, Larry Storch, and Phil Silvers. It is a retelling of Damon Runyon's 1932 short story Little Miss Marker.[2]
It marks Jewison's feature film directorial debut, after several years as a television director;[3] it also marks Stanley Margulies' feature film producer debut, after having been executive producer on the television series Tales of the Vikings for Brynaprod.[4][5] The film was shot on location at Disneyland and at Harrah's Club in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.[6][7] It was the first motion picture ever to receive permission from Walt Disney to film at the amusement park.[8][9][10] Producers Curtis and Stanley Margulies sent Disney a copy of the script and were surprised when the noted figure phoned them three days later to give his approval, with only a minor alteration to the script.[9] It was the only released film completed by Curtis and Margulies' film production company Curtis Enterprises, as the pair would form a new company, Reynard Productions, shortly afterwards.
40 Pounds of Trouble had a limited one-day-only New Year's Eve screening at select theaters across the United States, on the night of December 31, 1962.[11][12] Theaters showed the film from one to three times that night in celebration of the oncoming new year.[13] The film had its official world premiere on January 18, 1963, at the Carib-Miami-Miracle Theaters in Miami, Florida,[14] and the next day at Harrah's Club's South Shore Room in Lake Tahoe, Nevada which Curtis and his wife Christine Kaufmann attended.[15][16] The film then opened to the rest of the United States during the last week of January and first week of February 1963. It was a success and the film was nominated for a Golden Laurel Award for Top Comedy and Curtis was nominated for a Golden Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance.
^"Top Rental Features of 1963", Variety, January 8, 1964, p 71. Please note figures are rentals as opposed to total gross.
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^"Messenger-Inquirer from Owensboro, Kentucky on February 3, 1963 · 23". Newspapers.com. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
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^Gettell, Oliver (May 23, 2015). "'Tomorrowland' and 5 more Disneyland movies to mark the park's 60th". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
^"The Evening Sun from Baltimore, Maryland on May 31, 1962 · 50". Newspapers.com. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
^ ab"Valley Times from North Hollywood, California on May 14, 1962 · 6". Newspapers.com. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
^"Los Angeles Evening Citizen News from Hollywood, California on May 7, 1962 · 10". Newspapers.com. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
^"Argus-Leader from Sioux Falls, South Dakota on December 28, 1962 · Page 21". Newspapers.com. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
^"Deseret News from Salt Lake City, Utah on December 29, 1962 · 3". Newspapers.com. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
^"The Lima News from Lima, Ohio on December 20, 1962 · 23". Newspapers.com. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
^"The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida on January 18, 1963 · 82". Newspapers.com. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
^"The Miami News from Miami, Florida on January 19, 1963 · 9". Newspapers.com. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
^"Hartford Courant from Hartford, Connecticut on January 20, 1963 · 28". Newspapers.com. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
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