 the top of  Smiths head crashed into Billys face. Director  Alfred Santell (qv) had Billy whisked off to a Hollywood dentists  office in a studio car while scenes not needing Billy were filmed  instead. After extracting the two drooping teeth, the dentist, Dr.  Ervin Robert Barr, working from a studio still of Billy, created a  removable plate for him, that was an exact match of his original  teeth, by 7:00 that evening. Since Billy was needed for many scenes  in the movie, Santell did not want to risk another change in his  shooting schedule or a sudden, unexplained change in Billys  appearance, such as missing teeth. So Santell asked Billy to refrain  from any rough