Too Much, Too Soon

Year:

1958

Duration:

121 min

Genres:

Biography | Drama

IMDB rate:

6.7

Director:

Art Napoleon

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1958-04-17

Filming Locations: Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Beverly Aadland

Dorothy Malone

Diana Barrymore

Errol Flynn

John Barrymore

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Vincent Bryant

Ray Danton

John Howard

Neva Patterson

Blanche Oehrichs aka Michael Strange

Murray Hamilton

Charlie Snow

Martin Milner

Lincoln Forrester

John Dennis

Walter Gerhardt

Ed Kemmer

Robert Wilcox (as Edward Kemmer)

Robert Ellenstein

Gerald Frank

Malcolm Atterbury

Older Attrendant (scenes deleted)

George Baxter

Schuyler (scenes deleted)

Dee Carroll

Telephone Operator (scenes deleted)

David Alpert

Leonard - Hair Stylist (uncredited)

Edward Astran

Man at Press Party (uncredited)

Jim Bannon

Actor as Thomas Jefferson in Play (uncredited)

Joanna Barnes

Party Girl (uncredited)

Ivan Bell

Party Guest (uncredited)

Larry J. Blake

Reporter (uncredited)

Gail Bonney

Nurse (uncredited)

Nesdon Booth

Spectator (uncredited)

Peter Brown

Young Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Paul Bryar

Bill (uncredited)

Robert Burton

Bill Henning (uncredited)

Jeanne Carmen

Tassles Terhune (uncredited)

Robert Carson

Associate (uncredited)

Dick Cherney

Reporter (uncredited)

Sidney Clute

Stage Manager (uncredited)

Paul Cristo

Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Francis De Sales

Imperial Pictures Executive (uncredited)

Lester Dorr

Jimmy - Hotel Doorman (uncredited)

John Doucette

Crowley (uncredited)

Herbert Ellis

Assistant (uncredited)

James Elsegood

Diana's Tango Partner (uncredited)

Charles Evans

Party Guest (uncredited)

Franklyn Farnum

Backstage Man (uncredited)

Bess Flowers

Party Guest (uncredited)

Kathleen Freeman

Miss Magruder (uncredited)

Ben Frommer

Party Guest (uncredited)

Richard Harrison

Swimming Companion (uncredited)

Don Hayden

Theatre Manager (uncredited)

William Henry

Henry Trent - Actor as Alexander Hamilton in Play (uncredited)

Mary Alan Hokanson

Crista - the Maid (uncredited)

Jimmie Horan

Party Guest (uncredited)

Coulter Irwin

Reporter (uncredited)

Jay Jostyn

Imperial Pictures Executive (uncredited)

Kenner G. Kemp

Man at Press Party (uncredited)

Mike Lally

Man at Press Party (uncredited)

Alexander Lockwood

Alfred (uncredited)

Jack Lomas

Reporter (uncredited)

Michael Mark

Patterson (uncredited)

Joseph Mell

Man at Press Party (uncredited)

Shirley Mitchell

Mrs. Magda Snow (uncredited)

Gavin Muir

Sean (uncredited)

Lyn Osborn

Telegram Delivery Man (uncredited)

Yvonne Peattie

Lynn (uncredited)

Jack Perry

Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Joe Ploski

Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Murray Pollack

Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Louis Quinn

Assistant (uncredited)

Jack Reitzen

Bus Driver (uncredited)

Jack Rice

Druggist (uncredited)

Frank J. Scannell

Theatre Manager (uncredited)

Jack Shea

Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Bert Stevens

Man Arriving at Train Station (uncredited)

Jack Stoney

Cook (uncredited)

Brick Sullivan

Harmonizing Grip (uncredited)

Sid Tomack

Harry / Dick Harrison (uncredited)

Vampira

Minor Role (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

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.

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In the opening Diana is seen reading a 1938 movie magazine with a young Errol Flynn on the cover.

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After wrapping this production, Director of Photography Carl E. Guthrie would be shooting on the same sets for the low budget thriller "Frankenstein 1970" (1958).

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Goofs

In the film, Diana Barrymore is under contract to the fictitious Charlie Snow and Imperial Pictures; actually, she was under contract to Walter Wanger, and all six of her films were released by Universal.

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There's a scene involving a preview screening of the 1941 Humphrey Bogart movie All Through the Night, which Diana is supposed to have a part in. The results of the screening are negative, with the audience having particular dislike for Diana and leading Charlie Snow to declare the film a flop. In reality, Diana Barrymore was never a part of that film and it was a success at the box office, not a flop.

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Although the bulk of the story takes place in the early 1940's, all of the clothes and hairstyles worn by Dorothy Malone, Neva Patterson, and the other female members of the cast are strictly in the 1957 mode.

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Quotes

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