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The opera in which Susan Alexander Kane stars was, originally, to have been based upon, and titled, "Thaïs", after the novel by Anatole France--a choice that would have been highly significant: the novel is the bitingly satirical story of a beautiful (and successful) Alexandrian courtesan who is converted to holiness and sainthood by a fanatical monk (who eventually dies without having achieved the salvation he had sought for himself by having denied himself sensual love). For unspecified reasons, the opera was changed to be based on the novel "Salammbô" (by Gustave Flaubert), which is a much more straightforward sword-and-sandals story of a princess, barbarians and that sort of thing. Ultimately, though, all verbal references to the opera by title were deleted in the completed film, and the name "Salammbo" appears only within texts on various editions of the Inquirer. However, it seems likely that, during some stages of filming, references to a "Thaïs" title were still expected to appear during certain scenes, as Bernstein's line that he "still can't pronounce [the opera's] name" seem more likely to refer to such a word as that than to 'Salammbo'.

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