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I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968) Facts
| Director(s) | Hy Averback |
| Producer(s) | Paul Mazursky, Larry Tucker, Charles H. Maguire |
| Featured Cast | Peter Sellers, Jo Van Fleet, Herb Edelman, Grady Sutton, Eddra Gale |
| Total Facts | 3 |
Director Hy Averback said in an interview that one day, Peter Sellers refused to shoot a scene until a crew member standing off camera changed clothes. The superstitious Sellers claimed the outfit was the "wrong color". Shooting had to stop while they went to wardrobe and got a different color outfit for the crewmember.
The film's title is a tribute to Gertrude Stein's lifelong partner, Alice B. Toklas, who published a cookbook in 1954 that contained the first printed recipe for hash fudge. In one of the movie's most famous scene Harold Fine unknowingly serves some marijuana-laced brownies baked by Nancy to his parents and fiancée
Paul Mazursky:
as one of the hippies on the sidewalk at the half-way point and in the final scene.