Hollywood film distributors had a ‘complete aversion to the title’, according to the production notes
The Huston Archive in the University of Galway Library holds the production notes for John Huston’s film adaptation of The Dead by James JoyceAmong the challenges facing the film director John Huston when he was shooting his screen adaptation of James Joyce’s short story The Dead in 1987 was an inability to negotiate directly with the leading actress, even though she was his own daughter.
Anjelica was also the highest-paid cast member and she was the only actor to have a daily driver during filming. Her payment for the eight-week shoot was almost double that of the leading man, Dubliner Donal McCann. She earned $90,000 compared to his $48,528, excluding per diems, according to production notes in the Huston Archive in the University of Galway Library.
John Huston regarded James Joyce as “the most influential writer in my life” and he had read Ulysses first as a teenager and later while on honeymoon. His copy was smuggled into the US, where it was banned, by his mother in 1928.
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