Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Athos: This was my family`s chapel, Charlotte. You`ll remember we took our vows here. I loved you, Charlotte. I still love you. I love you as I love war and drunkeness. I love you as men love all that is worst for them.
Constance Bonacieux: Whatever my reputation or my D`Artagnan`s, I don`t take love lightly.
D`Artagnan: Porthos, when did a wound ever come between you and a fight?
Porthos: [lying on his stomach] Well, unfortunately the position of this one comes between me and my horse.
Lady de Winter: But, your grace, how can you trust me with such a confidence? What if I refuse to go to England?
Richelieu: Can there be anybody more trustworthy, Milady, than an ambitious woman of fashion... with a history?
Richelieu: It takes a good man to prevent a catastrophe, Milady, and a great man to make use of one.
Jussac: [while dueling] Why don`t you use your right hand, Athos?
Athos: I save my right hand for my drinking.
Athos: To die among friends. Can a man ask more? Can the world offer less? Who wants to live `till the last bottle is empty? It`s all-for one, d`Artagnan, and one for all.
D`Artagnan: I kissed the Queen`s hand!
Constance Bonacieux: Have you no higher ambitions?
The Duke of Buckingham: [to the queen] England is mine, France shall be mine, and you shall be mine.
Athos: This is no hour for composing letters or looking happy.
D`Artagnan: I come from the end of the earth to implore you.
Constance Bonacieux: I thought you said you came from upstairs.
Constance Bonacieux: Oh monsieur! Monsieur, you come from the heavens.
D`Artagnan: No mademoiselle, just from upstairs.
Trivia
Ian Keith, who plays Rochefort in this film, also portrayed the character in the 1935 version of The Three Musketeers (1935).
In the original novel Constance was the wife, not the goddaughter of D`Artagnan`s landlord. By 1948 standards, a hero like D`Artagnan would never dally with a married woman.
Angela Lansbury considered herself too young to play the role of the Queen and wanted to play Milady De Winter.
This was `Gene Kelly(I)``s favorite non-musical role.
In her autobiography, June Allyson notes that she did not feel comfortable doing a period piece, and that she tried to get out of her assignment in the picture.
During Turner`s suspension, MGM began a search for her possible replacement and, at one point, considered Alida Valli, who was then under contract to David O. Selznick.
Lana Turner`s first appearance in a color feature.
Lana Turner originally accepted a studio suspension in preference to playing Lady de Winter because she considered Milady a secondary character.
Fearing pressure from church groups, MGM had the script refer to Richelieu to as prime minister rather than Cardinal and almost all traces of him being a cardinal or a man of the church have been removed (although Jean Heremans is still credited as "Cardinal Guard"), even though other versions of this story kept Richelieu a cardinal without any repercussions.
Robert Taylor and Ricardo Montalban and Sydney Greenstreet were originally cast as Athos, Aramis and Richelieu.
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Gene Kelly
with June Allyson
(as Constance)
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