 When there was to be no reconciliation, Sinatra hurriedly left the production, asking director Stanley Kramer to condense all of his scenes into as brief as possible shooting schedule; Kramer obliged.Conversely, Cary Grant was happy to be away from his troubled marriage to Betsy Drake so he could pursue a serious romantic relationship with co-star Sophia Loren.The romance was over by the end of the production at which point Loren agreed to marry Carlo Ponti.