"Make Mine Mink (1960)" (which was based on a book titled Breath of Spring), was the basis for the musical 70, Girls, 70, which ran on stage in both the West End and Broadway. During it's Broadway run, Mildred Natwick had the 'Dame Beatrice' (Athene Seyler) role, and Hans Conried had the 'Major Albert' (Terry-Thomas) role.
Film was the basis for the 1971 musical "70, Girls, 70", which ran for 35 performances on Broadway and starred Mildred Natwick. Music and lyrics were by John Kander and Fred Ebb.
A character in the movie is a Dame, (Dame Beatrice Appleby). Actress Athene Seyler was in fact created a dame only a year prior to this film (1959).
The music being played when Terry-Thomas's character was about to enter the Shanghai Harry's is the main theme of the classic film "The Third Man (1949)."
Of all the cast, the ones who lived longest, were Billie Whitelaw and Athene Seyler. Sadly, Terry-Thomas, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Williams, and Elspeth Duxbury had all passed away - Ms. Duxbury passing away the earliest, 1967.
Ms. Seyler - who was the oldest cast member - passed away in '91, and Ms. Whitelaw passed away in 2014.
Ms. Seyler - who was the oldest cast member - passed away in '91, and Ms. Whitelaw passed away in 2014.