“Peter’s not a genius,” said Milligan ... from under the cover of the character, the work, the celebrated anonymity of the featured player. Sellers stepped into the spotlight, looked ...

This promotion of Quilty to a major role had everything to do with the casting of Peter Sellers. Kubrick requested ... and the rehearsal would start to work, leading to, “a state of comic ...

I make a point of this because there’s a kind of cult for the idea that Peter Sellers was a mad genius: the guy who ... saying that he was too sick to work. Sellers was then at the apex of ...

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