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Helen of Troy (1956) More at IMDbPro »

• Peter van Eyck was considered for a role in this film
  
  
• The studio badly wanted Stanley Baker to be in this film and they didn't care which part.
  
  
• Niall MacGinnis was only cast as Menelaus after the production team failed to secure a big name British actor.
  
  
• Average Shot Length (ASL) = 6 seconds, very fast for an early CinemaScope film.
  
  
• When Niall MacGinnis was first cast he and the production team had no idea what part he would end up playing.
  
  
• Eilen Moore and Ann Gunning were screen tested for Helen.
  
  
• Yvonne Furneaux was suggested for Andraste.
  
  
• Among those interviewed for parts were Barbara Leake and Gabriel Woolf.
  
  
• Esmond Knight who plays the High Priest was also Jacques Sernas's English Coach.
  
  
• Harry Andrews nearly lost his part in this film when his previous film, The Man Who Loved Redheads (1955) went over scheduled filming duration.
  
  
• Noted British actor Edmund Purdom overdubbed in English the lines of French-Lithuanian actor Jacques Sernas on the soundtrack of this film, due to Sernas not having a firm English-speaking voice. Sernas at that point in his career was learning English but had not yet mastered the language. Purdom was not credited with his voiceover talent for this picture, as the film's producers wanted the public to think Sernas did it all on his own.
  
  

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