History Trivia / TheSpyWhoLovedMe

* FatalMethodActing: Averted. The opening parachute ski-jump could have gone horribly wrong for stuntman Rick Sylvester. After the jump, a disengaged ski clipped the unopened chute as it was falling. The ski could easily have prevented the chute from opening. It can still be seen in the final footage when the ski clips the about-to-open parachute.

* CaliforniaDoubling: The ski jump in the Austrian mountains was actually done on Baffin Island in northern UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}.

* YouSoundFamiliar: Creator/CharlesGray, who played Henderson in ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' and Blofeld in ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'', provides the voice of the announcer at the Pyramids.

* ThrowItIn: As above in EnforcedMethodActing, Moore's response to Creator/BarbaraBach being unable to drive stick were unscripted but left in.

* ReferencedBy: Franchise/AlanPartridge is a ''huge'' fan of this film, to the point where he can re-enact the pre-credits sequence and the dancing women in the credits from memory. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czWLEbNwjCI Observe.]]

** Creator/AlbertRBroccoli had to make the movie alone after falling out with partner Harry Saltzman, and from there it had problems such as a script rushed into production that suffered extensive rewrites, two directors who declined the movie (Creator/StevenSpielberg, fresh off the chaos that was ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', and Creator/GuyHamilton, who had done the previous three Bonds) and complex effects\scenery that caused some headaches to deploy (specially the supertanker interior, given a whole new soundstage had to be built to accomodate it).
** In one case, Broccoli (who was Italian-American) was literally forced to take a "hands-on" approach: Dissatisfied with both the local Egyptian food, and with how the food he ordered from England arrived either spoiled or stolen, Broccoli sent assistants out to round up tomatoes, cheese, bread, and imported pasta from Cairo, and then personally cooked spaghetti for everyone on the set.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Viviene Michell lost her virginity in a box in the Royalty Kinema, just like Creator/IanFleming did.

* FakeRussian: Russian secret agent Anya is played by Creator/BarbaraBach, an American actress. Incidentally, this movie almost single-handedly changed Americans' views of Russian women as SensualSlavs. Before it came out, all Russian women were assumed by Americans to be outright {{Gonk}}s, to the point that American comedians (and especially the hugely influential Creator/JohnnyCarson) could count on getting cheap and easy laughs by poking fun at the purported hideousness of Russian women. Carson admitted during a visit by Creator/RogerMoore that the movie had ruined "half his jokes". (Evidently, viewers had by this time forgotten Tatiana Romanova in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''.)

* OldShame: Fleming saw the book as a failed experiment, despite those who have come to appreciate the experiment including the aspect of the novel offering a female narrative voice in an otherwise male-dominated series.