 The original version included a scene where Marcus Licinius  (Laurence Olivier (qv)) attempts to seduce Antoninus  (Tony Curtis (I) (qv)). The Production Code Administration and the  Legion of Decency both objected. At one point  Geoffrey Shurlock (qv), representing the censors, suggested it  would help if the reference in the scene to a preference for oysters  or snails was changed to truffles and artichokes. In the end the  scene was cut, but it was put back in for the 1991 restoration.  However, the soundtrack had been lost in the meantime and the  dialogue had to be dubbed. Curtis was able to redo his lines, but  Olivier had died. Joan Plowright (qv), his widow, remembered that  Anthony Hopkins (qv) had done a dead