As a result of the Hollywood blacklist, Betsy Blair's career was undone. By the early 1950s, all film offers had dried up. The only reason Betsy won the female lead in this film was that her husband Gene Kelly threatened to stop shooting at MGM if they didn't let her work despite the blacklist. It would be the role of a lifetime for her. As the touching plain-Jane girlfriend of Ernest Borgnine's butcher Marty Piletti, she won the Cannes Film and British Film acting awards, not to mention an Oscar nomination. It did not help her overcome the blacklist, however.
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