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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 9, 1984, one of Daryl Hannah's biggest films was released in theaters. The film earned an Academy Award nomination for ...

"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 ...

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 ...