Editing Written on the Wind (section)

===Casting===
[[Lauren Bacall]], whose film career was foundering in the mid-1950s, accepted the relatively unflashy role of Lucy Moore at the behest of her husband, [[Humphrey Bogart]]. At the same time she was shooting the film, she was preparing for a television adaptation of [[Noël Coward]]'s ''[[Blithe Spirit (play)|Blithe Spirit]]'', co-starring Coward and [[Claudette Colbert]].

[[Dorothy Malone]], a brunette previously best known as the brainy bespectacled bookstore clerk in a scene with [[Humphrey Bogart]] in ''[[The Big Sleep (1946 film)|The Big Sleep]]'' (1946), had more recently played small supporting roles in a long string of [[B movies]]. For this film, she dyed her hair [[Blond#platinum blond|platinum blonde]] to shed her "nice girl" image and portray the obsessive Marylee Hadley. Her Oscar-winning performance finally gave her cachet in the film industry.

[[Robert Stack]] felt the primary reason he lost the Oscar to [[Anthony Quinn]] (whose winning performance in ''[[Lust for Life (1956 film)|Lust for Life]]'' was no more than 25 minutes long) was that [[20th Century Fox]], which had lent him to [[Universal Pictures|Universal-International]], organized block voting against him to prevent one of its contract players from winning an acting award while working at another studio.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Written on the Wind (1957) – Articles|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/96313/written-on-the-wind#articles-reviews|access-date=2020-08-07|publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]]}}</ref>

This was the sixth of eight films [[Douglas Sirk]] made with [[Rock Hudson]], and the most successful. The next year, Sirk reunited key cast members Hudson, Stack, and Malone for ''[[The Tarnished Angels]]'', a film about early aviators based on [[William Faulkner]]'s novel ''[[Pylon (novel)|Pylon]]''.