In the spring of 1971, after having appeared in numerous television commercials and having a great success on Broadway in the 1970 revival of "The Boy Friend" (which won her a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress In a Musical), Sandy Duncan's show business career was quickly ascending. She had just completed her first major motion picture - "The Million Dollar Duck" for Walt Disney and was about to start on her second film - the screen adaptation of the Neil Simon play "Star Spangled Girl" which was to be produced and released by "Paramount Pictures". Duncan was also signed by Paramount to film a television pilot loosely based on the 1957 film musical "Funny Face" which they hoped would be picked up by "CBS" to be part of their 1971–1972 fall television schedule. A pilot was filmed in the spring of 1971 and CBS executives were very enthusiastic. As a result, Duncan was already being touted by the network as the brightest new star of the 1971 fall season.