This film is based on real events which took place in 1927. A Russian filmmaker covertly shot footage of the vacationing Mary Pickford, and fashioned an entire film around the footage, creating the illusion that Pickford was actually starring in this Russian film.
Eddie Murphy improvised the line "You're doing great! You're going to be a star." in the scene where Daisy is topless.
Heather Graham's character Daisy is a thinly veiled jab at Anne Heche. Like Daisy, Heche is from Ohio, and, also like Daisy, Heche was briefly romantically involved with a significantly older man, Steve Martin. Daisy's last lines about being involved with "the most powerful lesbian in Hollywood" are a reference to Heche's relationship at the time with Ellen DeGeneres.
Bowfinger 1999
13 Aug 1999 ● English ● 1 hr 37 mins
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