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Too Much, Too Soon (1958) was a Biographical - Drama Film directed by Art Napoleon and produced by Henry Blanke.

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Too Much, Too Soon (1958)

on Jan 16, 2015 From Journeys in Classic Film

Biopic Theater is back, and now on Fridays! I’m still gauging whether this will go weekly, bi-weekly, or do more of a “seasonal” feature wherein it runs for a couple months of the year, but for right now let’s just enjoy the fact I’m getting back into the biopic spirit!... Read full article


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John Barrymore: [after Diana loses her fishing pole in the water] The fish have to win sometimes. Otherwise they get suspicious.


Crowley: [to Diana about John] Whatever he's looking for he won't find it in Rio.


John Barrymore: I feel like a small boy whose mother has dropped him off at school gor the first time.


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Errol Flynn was a friend of Barrymore's in Hollywood during the time frame depicted in the film.
Warner Brothers purchased the book the film is based on with the intention of starring Carroll Baker (then under contract) in an adaptation. When she declined on the grounds that she did not want to play "a nymphomaniac", they refused to lend her to an outside company to appear in "The Devil's Disciple" opposite Sir Laurence Olivier.
In the opening Diana is seen reading a 1938 movie magazine with a young Errol Flynn on the cover.
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