Trivia / It Happened in Athens

• Billing Displacement: Jayne Mansfield plays a supporting character, but receives top billing anyway.
• Box Office Bomb: Bombed so badly that 20th Century Fox released both Trax Colton and Jayne Mansfield from their contracts. Making it worse, It Happened In Athens was actually supposed to recoup some of the money that was going into the juggernaut that was Cleopatra.
• California Doubling: Averted. The whole movie was filmed on-location in Greece.
• Fake Nationality: Of course, Jayne Mansfield is totally credible as a Greek.
• Real-Life Relative: Jayne Mansfield's son Mickey Hargitay, Jr. is briefly seen at the dinner table throwing food.
• Release Date Change: Filmed in 1960, but not released until 1962.