| 1 | * CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Fellini called this film the one closest to his heart. |
| 2 | * DawsonCasting: Gelsomina seems like she's around 18 or so. Giulietta Masina was in her 30s at the time. |
| 3 | * FakeNationality: Creator/AnthonyQuinn (born in Mexico, largely raised in Los Angeles) and Creator/RichardBasehart (born in Ohio) as Italians. |
| 4 | * LoopingLines: Rather than actual dialogue, the actors would recite numbers from 1-to-30 to create general "lip flaps" that would be dubbed over later (since ''La Strada'', like most Italian movies at the time, was shot without sound). This process, called "the number system" or "[[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness numerological dictation]]", was intended as a workaround of the on-set language barrier (two of the stars were Americans who didn't speak Italian). Fellini liked it so much he wound up using it in most of his future films. |
| 5 | * PlayingAgainstType: Richard Basehart, an actor known for playing stoic authority figures like [[Series/VoyageToTheBottomOfTheSea Admiral Nelson]], plays a mischievous clown inspired by TheTramp. |
| 6 | * ReferencedBy: Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo plays the film's theme by Music/NinoRota with a trumpet in ''Film/HoldUp'' at one point when his character is in UsefulNotes/{{Rome}}. |
| 7 | * SameLanguageDub: Quinn and Basehart were respectively dubbed into Italian by Arnoldo Foà and Stefano Sibaldi, but, for the English dub, they voiced themselves. |
| 8 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: |
| 9 | ** De Laurenttis and Ponti originally wanted to cast Creator/BurtLancaster and Silvana Mangano ([[{{Nepotism}} the former's wife]]) as the leads. |
| 10 | ** At some point, there were plans to turn the license the character of Gelsomina into a marketing icon, replete with toys and a themed candy. Creator/WaltDisney even floated the idea of an animated film with her. |
| 11 | * WordOfGod: Fellini stated each of the principal characters in the film represented the elements: Zampanò is Earth, Gelsomina is Water, and The Fool is Air. |
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