Here's a bit of movie trivia for you. [View all]

What movie is in the Guinness Book of World Records for “most retakes for one scene with dialogue”?

The answer is Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” - the scene where Scatman Crothers and Danny Lloyd (the boy who played Danny Torrence) discuss the ability to “shine”, a psychic gift that allows the boy to envision the hotel’s horrific past. Kubrick had the actors do that scene 148 times.

But another far more demanding scene — the staircase scene — was shot 127 times. “It was a difficult scene, but it turned out to be one of the best in the movie,” according to Shelley Duvall, who played Wendy Torrance.

(Recall Duvall in that scene, hysterical, meekly swing a bat on the staircase at Nicholson as he threatened to “bash [her] brains in.”

They filmed that scene for three weeks. She had to work herself up to that extreme hysterical state 127 times!

“We filmed that for about three weeks,” she replies. “Every day. It was very hard. Jack was so good — so damn scary. I can only imagine how many women go through that kind of thing.”

I’m just blown away!!! Damn!!!

Taken from this interview... much more about Ms. Duvall

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/searching-for-shelley-duvall-the-reclusive-icon-on-fleeing-hollywood-and-the-scars-of-making-the-shining