On March 9, 1984, one of Daryl Hannah 's biggest films was released in theaters. Exactly 42 years ago, the '80s hit film Splash, starring Hannah and Tom Hanks, came out in theaters, and the ...

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Ron Howard says when he initially tried to sell Splash — his 1984 film about a man who falls in love with a mermaid who saved him from drowning — many film studios had one key issue: the mermaid.

The director said one key part of the film was a big hangup for film studios Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE for three years. Her work has previously ...

"We were going to every studio, they were all turning us down, and one said, 'Does it really have to be a mermaid?' " he told the outlet Ron Howard says when he initially tried to sell Splash — his ...