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Millie Perkins played the role of Frances Mansfield, the wife of Oates' brother Randall. In Willeford's script, Perkins was originally to have delivered a complaining line about her husband: "Randy's such a snob. He's never forgiven my father for being a dentist."
According to author Willeford, however, Perkins informed him that this line was cut from the script because both Monte Hellman (director) and Sam Gelfman (Roger Corman's co-producer) had relatives that were dentists. Though Perkins and Donahue both urged the line be kept, director Hellman won the argument and the line was omitted.