History Trivia / ForWhomTheBellTolls

* TheRedStapler: Ingrid's short hair, for various reasons, be it [[https://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2018/03/1940s-hairstyles-describing-character.html war rationing]] or [[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1362704X.2018.1533343?journalCode=rfft20 Ingrid's star factor]], was reported to be a hit with hairdressers. The "Maria cut" might be considered to be a precursor to [[FiftiesHair the spiky-curly Italian bobs]] of TheFifties.

* DoingItForTheArt: Creator/IngridBergman would rehearse for hours into the night, begging for more takes even after the director was satisfied.

* DoingItForTheArt: Ingrid Bergman would rehearse for hours into the night, begging for more takes even after the director was satisfied.

** Almost none of the actors in the the 1943 film are Hispanic, much less Spaniards. Creator/IngridBergman (Maria) is Swedish, Creator/AkimTamiroff (Pablo) is Armenian, [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/29/Katinapaxinos.jpg/150px-Katinapaxinos.jpg Katina Paxinou]] (Pilar) is [[DyeingForYourArt Greek]], Vladimir Sokoloff (Anselmo) is Russian, Mikhail Rasumny (Rafael) is Ukranian, Victor Varconi (Primitivo) is Hungarian, and Joseph Calleia (El Sordo) is Maltese.

** Creator/HenryFonda was considered for Robert Jordan.

** Ingrid Bergman cut her hair short to play Maria. As a result, she stopped producers from replacing "As Time Goes By" from ''{{Film/Casablanca}}''; they wanted to re-shoot the scene with a different song, but the hair would have created a continuity problem.

* TheOtherMarty: Norwegian ballerina-turned-actress Vera Zorina was originally cast as Maria. After a week's shooting, she was replaced with Ingrid Bergman after she was deemed too refined to properly portray her. Ernest Hemingway had been lobbying for Ingrid to play the part anyway.

---> ''The captain, standing in the open beside the boulder, commenced to shout filth at the hilltop. There is no language so filthy as Spanish. There are words for all the vile words in English and there are other words and expressions that are used only in countries where blasphemy keeps pace with the austerity of religion.''

** In the 1943 film version, almost none of the actors are Hispanic, much less Spaniards. Creator/IngridBergman (Maria) is Swedish, Creator/AkimTamiroff (Pablo) is Armenian, [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/29/Katinapaxinos.jpg/150px-Katinapaxinos.jpg Katina Paxinou]] (Pilar) is [[DyeingForYourArt Greek]], Vladimir Sokoloff (Anselmo) is Russian, Mikhail Rasumny (Rafael) is Ukranian, Victor Varconi (Primitivo) is Hungarian, and Joseph Calleia (El Sordo) is Maltese.

** The 1943 film version had all kinds of foreign actors playing the Spanish characters: the Swedish Creator/IngridBergman as Maria, the Armenian Creator/AkimTamiroff as Pablo, [[DyeingForYourArt the Greek]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/29/Katinapaxinos.jpg/150px-Katinapaxinos.jpg Katina Paxinou]] [[DyeingForYourArt as]] [[http://content9.flixster.com/photo/13/94/18/13941875_gal.jpg Pilar]], the Russian Vladimir Sokoloff as Anselmo, the Mexican Arturo de Córdova as Augustin and the Maltese Joseph Calleia as El Sordo.

** The 1943 film version had all kinds of foreign actors playing the Spanish characters: the Swedish Creator/IngridBergman as Maria, the Armenian Akim Tamiroff as Pablo, [[DyeingForYourArt the Greek]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/29/Katinapaxinos.jpg/150px-Katinapaxinos.jpg Katina Paxinou]] [[DyeingForYourArt as]] [[http://content9.flixster.com/photo/13/94/18/13941875_gal.jpg Pilar]], the Russian Vladimir Sokoloff as Anselmo, the Mexican Arturo de Córdova as Augustin and the Maltese Joseph Calleia as El Sordo.

* FakeNationality: The 1943 film version had all kinds of foreign actors playing the Spanish characters: the Swedish Creator/IngridBergman as Maria, the Armenian Akim Tamiroff as Pablo, [[DyeingForYourArt the Greek]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/29/Katinapaxinos.jpg/150px-Katinapaxinos.jpg Katina Paxinou]] [[DyeingForYourArt as]] [[http://content9.flixster.com/photo/13/94/18/13941875_gal.jpg Pilar]], the Russian Vladimir Sokoloff as Anselmo, the Mexican Arturo de Córdova as Augustin and the Maltese Joseph Calleia as El Sordo.

* CreatorBacklash: Creator/ErnestHemingway was not shy about his hatred of the movie.

** The Playhouse 90 version had Jewish-Americans Nehemiah Persoff and Eli Wallach as Pablo and Rafael, and Irish Catholic American Maureen Stapleton as Pilar.

--> ''The captain, standing in the open beside the boulder, commenced to shout filth at the hilltop. There is no language so filthy as Spanish. There are words for all the vile words in English and there are other words and expressions that are used only in countries where blasphemy keeps pace with the austerity of religion.''

* FakeNationality: The 1943 film version had all kinds of foreign actors playing the Spanish characters: the Swedish Creator/IngridBergman as Maria, the Armenian Akim Tamiroff as Pablo, [[DyeingForYourArt the Greek]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/29/Katinapaxinos.jpg/150px-Katinapaxinos.jpg Katina Paxinou]] [[DyeingForYourArt as]] [[http://content9.flixster.com/photo/13/94/18/13941875_gal.jpg Pilar]], the Russian Vladimir Sokoloff as Anselmo, the Mexican Arturo de Córdova as Augustin and the Maltese Joseph Calleia as El Sordo.

* CreatorBacklash: Hemingway was not shy about his hatred of the movie.

* FakeNationality: The 1943 film version had all kinds of foreign actors playing the Spanish characters: the Swedish Creator/IngridBergman as Maria, the Armenian Akim Tamiroff as Pablo, the Greek [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/29/Katinapaxinos.jpg/150px-Katinapaxinos.jpg Katina Paxinou]] [[DyeingForYourArt as]] [[http://content9.flixster.com/photo/13/94/18/13941875_gal.jpg Pilar]], the Russian Vladimir Sokoloff as Anselmo, the Mexican Arturo de Córdova as Augustin and the Maltese Joseph Calleia as El Sordo.

* FakeNationality: The 1943 film version had all kinds of foreign actors playing the Spanish characters: the Swedish Creator/IngridBergman as Maria, the Armenian Akim Tamiroff as Pablo, the Greek Katina Paxinou as Pilar, the Russian Vladimir Sokoloff as Anselmo, the Mexican Arturo de Córdova as Augustin and the Maltese Joseph Calleia as El Sordo.

* FakeNationality: The 1943 film version had all kinds of foreign actors playing the Spanish characters: the Swedish IngridBergman as Maria, the Armenian Akim Tamiroff as Pablo, the Greek Katina Paxinou as Pilar, the Russian Vladimir Sokoloff as Anselmo, the Mexican Arturo de Córdova as Augustin and the Maltese Joseph Calleia as El Sordo.