Editing From Here to Eternity (section)

==Production==
[[File:Frank Sinatra as Maggio From Here to Eternity.jpg|thumb|right|Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra]]
[[S. Sylvan Simon]] suggested to [[Harry Cohn]] that Columbia buy the rights to the novel and Simon was assigned to make the film but died from a heart attack in May 1951 before he could make preparations for the film.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Inside Stuff - Pictures|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=August 19, 1953|page=15|url=https://archive.org/details/variety191-1953-08/page/n144/mode/1up?view=theater|access-date=March 17, 2024|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>

Hollywood legend has it that Frank Sinatra got the role in the film by means of his alleged [[American Mafia|Mafia]] connections, and it was the basis for a similar subplot in ''[[The Godfather]]''.{{sfn|Sinatra|1995|p=106}} However, that has been dismissed on several occasions by the cast and crew of the film. Director [[Fred Zinnemann]] commented that "the legend about a horse's head having been cut off is pure invention, a poetic license on the part of [[Mario Puzo]], who wrote ''[[The Godfather]]''".{{sfn|Sinatra|1995|p=106}} One explanation of Sinatra's casting is that his then-wife [[Ava Gardner]] persuaded studio head [[Harry Cohn]]'s wife to use her influence with him; this version is related by [[Kitty Kelley]] in her Sinatra biography.{{sfn|Sinatra|1995|p=106}}

[[Joan Crawford]] and [[Gladys George]] were offered roles, but George lost her role when the director decided he wanted to cast the female roles against type, and Crawford's demands to be filmed by her own cameraman led the studio to take a chance on Deborah Kerr, also playing against type.

[[Kim Stanley]] heavily campaigned for the role of Lorene, which later garnered an [[Academy Award]] for [[Donna Reed]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.moviesplanet.com/movies/88514/from-here-to-eternity/trivia |title=From Here to Eternity (1953) |website=moviesplanet.com |access-date=May 31, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929103204/http://www.moviesplanet.com/movies/88514/from-here-to-eternity/trivia |archive-date=2011-09-29}}</ref>

The on-screen chemistry between Lancaster and Kerr may have spilled off-screen; it was alleged that the stars became involved romantically during filming.{{sfn|Buford|2000}}{{page needed|date=December 2015}}

The songs "Re-Enlistment Blues" and "From Here to Eternity" were written by [[Robert Wells (songwriter)|Robert Wells]] and Fred Karger.<ref name="pc22">{{Gilliland|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19775/m1/|title=Show 22 – Smack Dab in the Middle on Route 66: A skinny dip in the easy listening mainstream. [Part 1]|show=22|track=2}}</ref>

In 1951, LIFE magazine reported the novel's sale price to Hollywood as $82,500.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=James Jones and his Angel |last=Whipple |first=A. B. C. |magazine=[[Life (magazine)|Life]] |date=7 May 1951 |pages=143–44, 147, 149–50, 152, 154, 157 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gVEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA143 |access-date=4 August 2024 |issn=0024-3019}}</ref>