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3. According to Doug Jones (Billy Butcherson), Bette Midler had a unique requirement in her contract: Her feet had to be shown on-screen.
"A little known fact there, I heard a rumor that Bette Midler had written into her contracts that there had to be an isolated shot of Bette's shoes and her feet walking somewhere in the film," he alleged, pointing to the iconic "I Put a Spell on You" scene for reference.
"So you'll see two shots in the party scene, one when she's entering the room walking forward toward the camera," he said. "Another one on stage, it's a quick blip of her feet going from one side to the other while she's walking across the stage. If you look at it quickly, it's like, why would they even bother to put that clip in there? Well, it was contractual."