Trivia and Other Fun Stuff on SOME CAME RUNNING

While Some Came Running lost in the five categories in which it was nominated for an Academy Award, director Vincente Minnelli was still a happy man after the 1959 Oscar® ceremony. His other heavily-nominated film that year, Gigi, walked away with nine wins, including Best Picture and Best Director.

The shooting location of Madison, Indiana, was featured in a documentary produced during WWII by the Office of War Information as the "Model American Community."

The principal actors in Some Came Running were close-knit and were soon reunited on screen. Shirley MacLaine next co-starred with Frank Sinatra in Can-Can (1960), and with Dean Martin in All In a Night's Work (1961). Sinatra and Martin co-starred in many more films together, the first being the Rat Pack opus Ocean's Eleven (1960), which also featured a cameo by MacLaine.

Vincente Minnelli and Dean Martin worked together again just two years after Some Came Running, on the musical Bells Are Ringing (1960), co-starring Judy Holliday.

While Frank Sinatra clashed with director Minnelli during the filming of Some Came Running, he obviously got along fine with director of photography William H. Daniels, who shot Sinatra's next four movies: A Hole in the Head and Never So Few in 1959, and Can-Can and Ocean's Eleven in 1960.

by John Miller

Famous Quotes from SOME CAME RUNNING

Dave (Frank Sinatra): I'll have the best room in the house.
Hotel clerk (Chuck Courtney): Seven-fifty a day?
Dave: I once promised myself that if I had to come back here I'd have the best room in the house.

Frank (Arthur Kennedy): Oh, I know, I know - It's getting a little thin on top, but like they say, not much grass on a busy street.
Dave: You may be losing your hair, but you haven't lost your razor sharp wit. You wanna drink?
Frank: What - at 10:30 in the morning?
Dave: I don't watch a clock.

Frank: Say, why don't you have diner with us. I'd like it very much. Not that it'll look funny if you don't, you know, but...

Bama (Dean Martin): You sorta stuck the needle in ol' Frank where it hurts - y'know, puttin' your money in a bank he ain't with.
Dave: News sure gets around fast.
Bama: 'Bout the only thing in town that does. Do you play cards, Mr. Hirsh?

Dawn (Betty Lou Keim): Bumming around, doing all sorts of jobs...didn't that help to make you a writer?
Dave: Dawn, honey, bumming around can only help make you a bum.

Gwen (Martha Hyer): You know, I've watched every step of your career with a great deal of interest.
Dave: You must have a lot of spare time.

Gwen: I wish I could influence you to start writing again.
Dave: Good. Then we'd be pen-pals.
Gwen: I would like to - I started to say stimulate you - I would like to help you, if you decide to start writing. I am a good critic.
Dave: Would you mind dropping me on the corner - on my head, please.

Ginny (Shirley MacLaine): You know the only time you talk nice to me is when you're loaded?
Dave: Let's get loaded.

Dave: You know what I don't figure? You drink three drinks to my one, and you look like a milk-fed quarterback.
Bama: That all depends on what a man's cut out for - I can drink, and you can write.

Bama: I don't know what it is about them pigs, but they always look better at night.

Dave: Apparently you didn't hear what I said. I'm in love with you. Gwen: And I was avoiding the obvious comment that you said that with the ease of a man who's said that rather often to quite an assortment of women.

Ginny (upon hearing Dave's short story): No, honest - I really liked it a lot. Golly, just think ¿ you can put those words down on paper like that, and all I can do is hem brassieres. You know, it really makes me feel like a terrible failure.