Editing Death Becomes Her (section)

===Post-production===
Several scenes were filmed but omitted from the film's final cut.<ref name="LAT" /><ref name="afi" /> Director Robert Zemeckis decided on cutting the scenes to accelerate the film's pacing and to eliminate extraneous jokes. Most dramatically, the original ending was entirely redone after test audiences reacted unfavorably to it.<ref name=Metro>{{cite news |author=O'Brien |first=Jon |date=July 31, 2017 |title=Death Become Her 25th Anniversary: 12 things you may not know about the classic comedy |work=Metro |location=UK |url=http://metro.co.uk/2017/07/31/death-becomes-her-25th-anniversary-12-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-classic-comedy-6808575/ |access-date=March 12, 2018 |archive-date=March 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180312205105/http://metro.co.uk/2017/07/31/death-becomes-her-25th-anniversary-12-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-classic-comedy-6808575/ |url-status=live }}</ref> That ending featured Ernest, after he has fled Lisle's party, meeting a bartender named Toni ([[Tracey Ullman]]) who helps him fake his death to evade Madeline and Helen. The two women encounter Ernest and the bartender 27 years later, living happily as a retired couple, while Madeline and Helen give no sign that they are enjoying their eternal existence.<ref name="LAT">{{cite news |author=Fox |first=David J. |date=August 9, 1992 |title=A look inside Hollywood and the movies.: THE VANISHING: 'Death Becomes Her' and the Lost Ullman Ending |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-09-ca-6132-story.html |access-date=March 12, 2018 |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306235751/http://articles.latimes.com/1992-08-09/entertainment/ca-6132_1_ullman-ending |url-status=live }}</ref> Zemeckis thought the ending was too happy, so opted for the darker ending featured in the final cut.<ref name="LAT"/> Ullman was one of five actors with speaking roles in the film to be eliminated.<ref name="LAT"/> Other scenes that were eliminated included one in which Madeline talks to her agent ([[Jonathan Silverman]]) and one in which Ernest removes a frozen Madeline from the kitchen freezer where he has stored her.<ref name="LAT"/> Some of the scenes can be viewed in the original theatrical trailer.<ref>{{cite video| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jPuZLUY4II| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/0jPuZLUY4II| archive-date=2021-12-11 | url-status=live| title=Death Becomes Her (1992) Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis - Official Trailer (HD)| via=YouTube| date=April 11, 2016| access-date=March 12, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>