When Blake Edwards and co-writer Maurice Richlin first conceived the idea for The Pink Panther, it was a story "about a detective who is trying to catch a jewel thief who is having an affair with his wife." To play the debonair jewel thief Sir Charles Lytton, Edwards chose David Niven. ![]() DAVID NIVEN’S CHARACTER WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE LEAD. So, to remember the beloved bumbling inspector, here are 12 facts about the film. ![]() Though its sequels often left something to be desired, The Pink Panther is still almost universally hailed as a comedy classic more than 50 years after its release. With Edwards’s comedic instincts and Sellers’s natural gift for transformation, the detective became the star, and Inspector Clouseau was born. ![]() Then he cast Peter Sellers as the detective, and everything changed. In the early 1960s, director Blake Edwards came up with an idea for a heist movie in which a jewel thief is having an affair with the wife of the detective who’s pursuing him.
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