Logan later heard her sing but was unable to persuade Rodgers to change his mind. Instead, Doris Day was offered the part of Nellie, but passed Elizabeth Taylor tested for the same role, but was rejected by Rodgers after she suffered stage fright in her audition. Had he lived to perform in the film, the producers would have cast Martin. The producers' original plan was to have Ezio Pinza and Mary Martin, the two leads of the original Broadway cast, reprise their roles for the film, but Pinza died suddenly in May 1957.
The original Todd-AO cameras continued to be employed, occasionally, as a B or C camera. Additionally, all the departments and department heads were Fox's, and Fox's research department re-engineered the Todd-AO process, changing its frame rate from 30 fps (for 70mm presentations) to 24 fps, thereby eliminating "simufilming" in 65mm and 35mm (as in Oklahoma!) or in 65mm 30 fps and 65mm 24 fps (as in Around the World in 80 Days), and for the most part eliminating the American Optical lenses, replacing these with Bausch & Lomb's then new Super Baltars, and for the most part replacing the Fearless Superfilm cameras with a new family of Mitchell cameras commissioned by Fox (BFC, "Blimped Fox Camera", a 65mm version of Mitchell's BNC, and FC, "Fox Camera", a 65mm version of Mitchell's NC). 20th Century Fox partially invested in the production in exchange for some distribution rights. The film was produced by "South Pacific Enterprises", a company created specifically for the production, owned by Rodgers, Hammerstein, Logan, Magna Theatre Corporation (owners of the Todd-AO widescreen process the film would be photographed in), and Leland Hayward, producer of the original stage production. Buck Class and Richard Kiser as Fighter pilotsįollowing the successes of the film versions of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (1955) and Carousel, the producers decided to tackle a big-screen adaptation of South Pacific as their next project.Robert Jacobs and John Gabriel as Communications men.
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