In this case, we non-insiders can get plenty of mileage out of admiring the cast: William Holden, Robert Vaughan and Larry Hagman as studio execs Robert Preston as Malibu’s local Dr. (The success of his previous film, 10, probably didn’t hurt either.) There was obviously a lot of pent-up frustration waiting to get vented in this movie, and that’s often not a good portent for the film actually being watch-able.
Director Blake Edwards’s gambit within a gambit of laying bare his wife, Julie Andrews, made this poison pen letter to Hollywood eminently commercial and, presumably, gave him the clout to bite the hand that was feeding him. to get a gawk at the exposed mammary glands of Mary Poppins herself. The main reason for watching this movie in 1981 was the same one for watching the movie within this movie, i.e.
