Īccording to a Paramount breakdown of the film's expenses, The Court Jester's total cost to that point was $3,702,103, having used seventy-six actual days for filming, eighteen days of rehearsal, and another eighteen days for second unit work, including location shooting in Palos Verdes, CA.
The production was reopened and closed for a single day-for additional cuts and retakes.Īccording to a Paramount breakdown of the film's expenses, The Court Jester's total cost to that point was.
After filming for nearly three months, The Court Jester temporarily shut down production on, then resumed on and finished its initial shooting on. After the first week of filming, cinematographer Ray Rennahan was dismissed from the production and replaced by the credited director of photography, Ray June. At that time, NYT reported that the picture's budget had been set at $3,000,000, with its two main sets-the castle interior and its courtyard-having been built on two separate Paramount sound stages at the cost of over $200,000.Īccording to the file on the film in the Paramount Collection at the AMPAS Library, The Court Jester was originally given a production budget of $2,487,000, with a forty-eight day shooting schedule. Though HR news items report a production starting date of Jul 1954, The Court Jester did not begin filming until late Nov 1954. In partnership with writer-producer-directors Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, Dena Productions had previously filmed another Danny Kaye comedy, Knock on Wood, a 1954 Paramount release (See Entry). The Court Jester was the second film by Dena Enterprises, a film production company owned by actor Danny Kaye and his wife, songwriter Sylvia Fine. During the opening credits, while singing "Life Could Not Better Be", Danny Kaye constantly pushes Basil Rathbone's re-appearing credit off the screen.
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