 After the failure of this film, he was never asked by an American studio to direct another film.There were also reports of conflicts between Raquel Welch and Mae West, who came out of a 27-year retirement to play Leticia Van Allen.Furthermore, some 1940s- and 1950s-era film actors who appeared in "Myra Breckinridge" were upset that footage from their old films was inserted into the movie to punctuate some of the gags and the film's climactic rape sequence.