Famed costume designer Edith Head appears as herself, providing onscreen commentary for the film's fashion show. This is one of her very rare on-screen appearances. Head's designs were later sold commercially.
Re-titled 'Oil Town' and re-released in black-and-white, not Technicolor.
Lucy Gallant (1955) was based on a novelette, "The Longest Day of the Year" (which was later turned into the novel "The Life of Lucy Gallant") in Good Housekeeping by Margaret Cousins (May 1953). Paramount bought the screen rights and hired John Lee Mahin to adapt it. The story was set in Oklahoma, but the film is set in Texas.
Charlton Heston completed his final scene (the fashion show) and three hours later left for Cairo to begin The Ten Commandments (1956).
Lucy Gallant (1955) was released by Paramount exactly one year prior to another romantic saga set against the backdrop of the Texas oil boom, and with the male lead being a rancher. That movie was Giant (1956), a Warner Brothers release, which was produced on a more blockbuster scale and which proved to be far more successful than this film.
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