Ruth Gordon and Jayne Mansfield were both cut from the released print of the film. After WWII, Evelyn Waugh came to Hollywood to work on a movie adaptation of his novel "Brideshead Revisited". While in Hollywood he went to a funeral at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Waugh was offended by the pretense of both the American film industry and the American funeral industry, and wove the two together into the novel on which this film was based. Sir Francis Hinsley drives a Talbot drophead c ...[Read Story ]