• The movie was nominated for five Academy Awards
but received none. Shirley MacLaine, nominated along with
Elizabeth Taylor (“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”) for
Best Actress, lost to Susan Hayward (“I Want to Live”).
MacLaine was nominated four more times in her career, winning
in 1984 for “Terms of Endearment.”
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Martin,
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• MacLaine later wrote in her book, “My Lucky
Stars,” that “the Clan” really got its start
during the filming of “Some Came Running” in Madison.
“The Clan” included MacLaine, Sinatra, Martin,
Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop.
• In Martha Hyer Wallace’s book, “Finding
My Way,” she wrote a chapter that discussed the movie
and her Madison experience. Nominated for Best Supporting
Actress for her role, she wrote that “the house in
‘Some Came Running’ got more mail than the actors
did. MGM sent plans of that beautiful old farm house to
people all over the world.”
• While many of the cast and crew stayed in Hillside
Inn during filming of the movie, Frank Sinatra and Dean
Martin rented out the John Lucht home next door. Local cab
drivers and Sinatra’s valet would make frequent trips
downtown to pick up food, booze and prescription drugs at
Rogers and Inglis drug stores. Lucht, (now deceased) who
owned the hotel at the time, later reported that Sinatra
got angry one evening and tore a telephone off the wall.
The two guests also caused other damage, including leaving
water marks from their drink glasses on the Lucht’s
baby grand piano.
• The famous Hollywood trio of Dean Martin, Shirley
MacLaine and Frank Sinatra (above) left an indelible impact
on the sleepy river town of Madison, Ind., during their
three-week stay in 1958. Despite the river valley’s
scenic beauty, Sinatra supposedly hated being cooped up
in a “hick town” like Madison. He couldn’t
find a bar that made his special drink and he had to have
“dames” brought in from Indianapolis on the White
Star Bus. And when he protested the script’s call for
his character to be shot in the end, they changed it to
have MacLaine's character shot instead. Guess it just wasn’t
Frank’s “kinda town.”
