Harris is the only person in her nearly 60 year career who expressed this antipathy towards her, and we all know about his many issues resulting from excessive drinking. He was angry at the producers of HAWAII because, by the time he started filming, they had already been shooting for a long time and were seriously behind schedule, so they reduced the size of his role and eliminated an important sub-plot in which his character was involved in order to complete the picture and reduce the overages. He was paid his full salary but, nevertheless, caused a lot of disruption on and off-set and, for some reason, blamed Julie for not taking his side in lobbying to restore the full scope of his role. He really hated her, with no good reason.
Tellingly, she and her other co-star in the film, Max Von Sydow, absolutely adored each other and would work together again some twenty years later in DUET FOR ONE. Robert Goulet remained close with her until his death, and appeared on her Emmy-winning television variety series. He was also featured in the 2001 tribute to her when she was inducted into the Kennedy Center Honorees. Richard Burton insisted that she was, apart from his then-wife Elizabeth Taylor, his favorite co-star. Burton was the one who affectionately described her as being "as wicked as a street Arab, a nun with a switch-blade."
One interesting side-note is how many of her male co-stars of stage, screen and television share the same birthday with her: Stanley Holloway, Everett Sloane, Walter Matthau, Stephen Collins and--yes--irony of ironies--Richard Harris!
Thank you, thank you--you're most kind. In fact you're every kind.
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