The campaign proved to be effective as John Wayne received his first Best Actor Oscar nomination.

Of all the major actresses of her generation—Garbo, Hepburn, Stanwyck, Claudette Colbert, Jean Arthur, Rosalind Russell–Myrna Loy is the only one who has never nominated for a competitive Academy Award in the Best Actress category. 

Lelsey Ann Warren is marvelous as the horny ditzy dumb blonde in a role that garnered her her first and only Oscar nomination.

In recent years, there have been changes in the casting practices in Hollywood: lead actors had to be neither conventionally attractive nor romantic in order to be cast in lead or starring roles.

The second kind of typecasting is most severely felt by supporting actors, who are doomed for the rest of their careers to play second bananas. In some respects, the Academy itself is responsible for such typecasting, making the distinction between leading and character players official in the Academy Players Directory, the industry's chief casting tool. Until the late 1970s, players who won or were nominated for supporting awards tended to remain in this category.