History Trivia / TheTeahouseOfTheAugustMoon

* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/MarlonBrando recalled in his autobiography that he didn't get on with Creator/GlennFord. He also reportedly didn't get on with director Daniel Mann.

* MethodActing: Creator/MarlonBrando spent two months studying local culture, speech, and gestures and, for the actual shooting, spent two hours daily having make-up applied to make him appear Asian. In fact, he was so careful that some viewers couldn't tell it was him and asked for their money back saying Brando wasn't in this picture.

* RoleReprise: Paul Ford as Purdy. He had played the role on Broadway over 3,000 times before replacing the original actor Louis Calhern, who unfortunately suffered a bit of ActorExistenceFailure before filming.

* MethodActing: Creator/MarlonBrando spent two months studying local culture, speech, and gestures and, for the actual shooting, spent two hours daily having make-up applied to make him appear Asian.

* FunWithForeignLanguages: In the 1954 production starring Creator/EliWallach as Sakini, Wallach had prepared for the role by attempting to learn Japanese. When performing in London, he saw Japanese audience members and was worried what they'd think of him in the role, wondering if the British critics from an earlier performance had given these people free tickets just to harass him. And as soon as he went on stage, he forgot all the Japanese he learned. When the army captain asked Sakini to tell the natives that "there'll be rice for everyone," Wallach recited the only phrase he could remember: "The school will have five sides like the Pentagon." The Japanese audience members almost fell out of their seats laughing. He had said the wrong line in the right language.

* FunWithForeignLanguages: In the 1954 production starring Creator/Eli Wallach as Sakini, Wallach had prepared for the role by attempting to learn Japanese. When performing in London, he saw Japanese audience members and was worried what they'd think of him in the role, wondering if the British critics from an earlier performance had given these people free tickets just to harass him. And as soon as he went on stage, he forgot all the Japanese he learned. When the army captain asked Sakini to tell the natives that "there'll be rice for everyone," Wallach recited the only phrase he could remember: "The school will have five sides like the Pentagon." The Japanese audience members almost fell out of their seats laughing. He had said the wrong line in the right language.

* FunWithForeignLanguages: In the 1954 production starring ''Eli Wallach'' as Sakini, Wallach had prepared for the role by attempting to learn Japanese. This culminated in the perfect storm when he saw Japanese audience members and was worried what they'd think of him in the role, wondering if the British critics from an earlier performance had given these people free tickets just to harass him. And as soon as he went on stage, he forgot all the Japanese he learned. When the army captain asked Sakini to tell the natives that "there'll be rice for everyone," Wallach recited the only phrase he could remember: "The school will have five sides like the Pentagon." The Japanese audience members almost fell out of their seats laughing. He had said the wrong line in the right language.

* FunWithForeignLanguages: In the 1954 production starring ''Eli Wallach'' as Sakini, Wallach had prepared for the role by attempting to learn Japanese. This culminated in the perfect storm when he saw Japanese audience members and was worried what they'd think of him in the role, wondering if the British critics from an earlier performance had given these people free tickets just to harass him. And as soon as he went on stage, he forgot all the Japanese he learned. When the army captain asked Sakini to tell the natives that "there'll be rice for everyone," Wallach recited the only phrase he could remember: "The school will have five sides like the Pentagon." The Japanese audience members almost fell out of their seats laughing.

* FunwithForeignLanguages: In the 1954 production starring Eli Wallach as Sakini, Wallach had prepared for the role by attempting to learn Japanese. This culminated in the perfect storm when he saw Japanese audience members and was worried what they'd think of him in the role, wondering if the British critics from an earlier performance had given these people free tickets just to harass him. And as soon as he went on stage, he forgot all the Japanese he learned. When the army captain asked Sakini to tell the natives that "there'll be rice for everyone", Wallach recited the only phrase he could remember: "The school will have five sides like the Pentagon." The Japanese audience members almost fell out of their seats laughing.

* [[ActorExistenceFailure Crewmember Existence Failure]] In the 1954 production starring Eli Wallach as Sakini, Wallach had witnessed an old stage hand die just as the curtain was about to go up.