actress, Ingrid Thulin, which made both main roles much older than the book and the 1921 film characters. That gave more credibility to their relationship than a May–December romance would have. Although Thulin spoke English well, she was dubbed by Angela Lansbury. Shooting Minnelli later wrote that as he was unhappy with the story he decided to make the film at least as "stunning visually as I could make it. The flaws in the story might be overlooked. Some of my previous pictures hadn't held much hope in the beginning, but they'd been saved because I'd had some leeway in the writing. But I didn't have this freedom on Four Horsemen. It would be interesting to see what could be accomplished." Minnelli decided to make the Four Horsemen an integral part of the story, which would be designed by Tony Duquette as a set of andirons riding the sky parallel to the main action. He used red as "a dominating color, culminating in a red gel over the newsreels, which would be shown in a documentary way to point up the devastation of the war and the insensitivity of the principal actors in taking scant notice of it." Filming started in Paris on 17 October. It proved difficult because of riots from the situation in Algeria and because of the local reluctance to recreate scenes from the Occupation. It was decided to film the bulk of the movie in Hollywood instead. Saul Bass spent months in 1961, creating four historical newsreel montages, "Sports Palace," "Warsaw," "Rotterdam," "La Martinique," which were to be interspersed throughout the story, but except for brief shots, the montages were removed in the final cut. Bass later reused some of the edits for The Victors, for which he created a prologue and titles. One of the most famous scenes of the 1921 movie involved Rudolph Valentino dancing the tango. However the scene was not in the novel, and it was decided not to have a similar scene in the remake. Ingrid Thulin later reflected on filming: It was an interesting experience. I could not conform to their standards of beauty. I tried.... After the first few rushes it was obvious that it [the film] would turn out badly. Yet they went right on. Perhaps they couldn't convince themselves that all that money would end in disaster. I really did want to be as beautiful as they