Was to star for her longtime director collaborator George Cukor as the elderly eccentric world traveler. She walked off the project when Cukor refused to cast actress Joy Bang as the hippie "Tooley."

Kerr was thought of for the role of Augusta Bertram but was not cast.

Graham Greene wanted to cast Ginger Rogers as Augusta.

According to her autobiography, Shepherd did so poorly in a reading with George Cukor that Cukor advised her, "You can't play comedy; don't try it again."