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Reportedly, during its premiere at the Paramount Theater in Hollywood, audiences threw their free souvenir soundtracks at the screen, causing extensive damage.
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Film debut of Finola Hughes'. She would soon go on to star in a more famous movie related to disco, Staying Alive.
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Nigel Lythgoe was the choreographer, but today he's perhaps better known as the head judge and producer of So You Think You Can Dance.
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Catherine Mary Stewart learned the music and was working with a vocal coach who was confident she could perform the songs. The producers, however, got cold feet, hired professional singer Mary Hylan to record the songs, and made Stewart lip-sync to Hylan's recordings. Decades later Stewart commented, "She was wonderful and I'm thrilled that I had her voice attached to my face, so it's all good in the end." Stewart later had the opportunity to do her own singing in Scenes from the Goldmine.
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Mr. Boogalow sings the line, 'The world is nothing but a big Casino Royale.' Vladek Sheybal, who plays Mr. Boogalow, actually appeared in the film Casino Royale as Le Chiffre's Auctioneer. Sheybal also appeared in another James Bond movie, From Russia with Love.
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Though set in the United States of America, the whole film was predominantly shot in Berlin, Germany.
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Filmed in late 1979 and released in 1980, this film was set in 1994, then about fifteen years into the future.
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The film's "The Apple" title refers to the movie's Biblical allegory of the story of Adam and Eve, the characters instead being called Alphie and Bibi.
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A large number of the extras and background artists appearing in this musical were cast from the American High School in Berlin. They were reportedly paid about 50 marks per day.
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Two of the film's three writers, Iris Recht and Coby Recht, appear in the movie, playing Dominique and Jean-Louis respectively.
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Story writers of this movie, Coby Recht and Iris Recht, originally conceived the picture in 1977 as a Hebrew musical.
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Like Thank God It's Friday, this disco musical was made to cash-in on the box-office success of Saturday Night Fever.
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Director Menahem Golan has said that he felt like committing suicide after the picture was booed at the 1980 Montreal Film Festival.
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