 (1956), "The Opposite Sex" (1956) and "Hot Summer Night" (1957) followed.In 1957 he won the lead role opposite Debbie Reynolds in the romantic comedy "Tammy and the Bachelor", which, as a "Chicago Tribune" critic wrote in 1998, made people consider Nielsen a dramatic actor and handsome romantic lead.However, dissatisfied with the films he was offered, calling the studios "a Tiffany, which had forgotten how to make silver", Nielsen left MGM after auditioning for Messala in the 1959 "Ben-Hur".