 When shooting wrapped, Liza Minnelli (qv) declared publicly (and  in tears) that she would never again work with the "tyrannical"  director Otto Preminger (qv). When she was working on the film,  her mother, Judy Garland (I) (qv), had died and Liza Minnelli  suffered a period of mourning. Most critics sited this reason as the  source of her highly emotional performance in the film.