 When Fox would not do the film, Zanuck offered the property, his son the producer, director Cukor and the female stars to his friend and rival Jack L. Warner.Warner Brothers replaced the film's planned male leads with their own Warner Brothers Television contract leads who received no extra money to do the film.Warner Brothers felt that casting these performers would attract their fans to the film, while at the same time pleasing the stars who had requested more interesting and different material than they had at Warners.