Two for the Seesaw

During the shooting of this film, Shirley MacLaine and Robert Mitchum began a love affair that lasted for years. They continued their affair all over the world, traveling together to locales such as New Orleans, New York, London, Paris, and even West Africa. The relationship eventually ended and Mitchum returned to his wife and MacLaine returned to her husband, Steve Parker. In her memoirs, however, MacLaine recalled a conversation years later with Used People (1992) costar Marcello Mastroianni: "We laughed about the time he and Faye Dunaway, who believed they were being successfully discreet, ran into Robert Mitchum and me on a London street. We believed we were being successfully discreet. And so the conversation led to the dilemma of falling in love with one's costar. "One must love one's costar," said Marcello. "Otherwise how will the audience believe it?"

Gittel pours milk into a pan to warm it, but she only leaves it on the stove for about 5 seconds.