The Chapman Report (1962) Online
Based on the best-selling novel by Irving Wallace that was inspired by the Kinsey Report on the sexual mores of suburban women, the film follows the personal (read sexual) lives of four women (Claire Bloom, Jane Fonda, Shelley Winters and Glynis Johns) with four separate sexual hangups, ranging from frigidity to nymphomania. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. plays a researcher who becomes entangled with Fonda, the young woman suffering from emotional frigidity.
Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. | - | Paul Radford | |
Shelley Winters | - | Sarah Garnell | |
Jane Fonda | - | Kathleen Barclay | |
Claire Bloom | - | Naomi Shields | |
Glynis Johns | - | Teresa Harnish | |
Ray Danton | - | Fred Linden | |
Ty Hardin | - | Ed Kraski | |
Andrew Duggan | - | Dr. George C. Chapman | |
John Dehner | - | Geoffrey Harnish | |
Harold J. Stone | - | Frank Garnell | |
Corey Allen | - | Wash Dillon | |
Jennifer Howard | - | Grace Waterton | |
Cloris Leachman | - | Miss Selby | |
Chad Everett | - | Bob Jensen | |
Henry Daniell | - | Dr. Jonas |
According to pre-production blurbs in the LA Times, Orson Welles was initial choice to play the title sex researcher (a role that ultimately went to Andrew Duggan), with Janet Leigh and Jayne Mansfield named as two of the female leads.
The poem that Glynis Johns is shown reciting is 'Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae' by Ernest Dowson.
Mark Robson was asked to direct.
Warner Brothers filled the film's male roles with Warner Brothers Television contract leads who received no extra money to do the film.
Robert E. Evans turned down the role of Fred Linden.
It is significant, and a bit of a private joke, that Glynis Johns reads a specific Dowson poem because it was from that poem that Margaret Mitchell got the title for "Gone With The Wind" and the director of "The Chapman Report," George Cukor, was the director of "Gone With The Wind" before being fired a few weeks into the shoot by producer David O. Selznick.
User reviews