On our Boardwalk, a neighbor Alan's mom was asked if her son Alan would mind being filmed running across the Boardwalk to maybe be used in a movie "Julia." We all assumed it as a big screen version of the TV series.
Even if we were given a million guesses, the idea that a movie was being made about Lillian Hellman would likely have been the 2-millionth guess. (all pre-internet then)