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1* BannedInChina: The film was banned in Spain until 1978.
2* CreatorBreakdown: Maureen Stapleton had one during the Playhouse 90 TV film. She was so afraid of guns that she didn't show up to filming, so producer Fred Coe personally forced her from her apartment, wearing nothing but a blanket, so she could finish filming.
3* DisownedAdaptation: Creator/ErnestHemingway was not shy about his hatred of the movie.
4* DyeingForYourArt:
5** Creator/IngridBergman 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.
6** Vera Zorina had been cast as Maria before she was replaced with Ingrid Bergman, and had already cut her hair too.
7** A brown horse was the only one able to do the stunt at the end of the film, so they painted it gray to match Gary Cooper's stunt horse.
8* FakeNationality:
9** 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 Greek, Vladimir Sokoloff (Anselmo) is Russian, Mikhail Rasumny (Rafael) is Ukranian, Victor Varconi (Primitivo) is Hungarian, and Joseph Calleia (El Sordo) is Maltese.
10** The Playhouse 90 version had Jewish-Americans Creator/NehemiahPersoff and Creator/EliWallach as Pablo and Rafael, and Irish Catholic American Maureen Stapleton as Pilar.
11* TheOtherMarty: Norwegian ballerina-turned-actress Vera Zorina was originally cast as Maria. After a week's shooting, she was replaced with Creator/IngridBergman after she was deemed too refined to properly portray her. Creator/ErnestHemingway had been lobbying for Ingrid to play the part anyway.
12* 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 bobs]] of TheFifties.
13* ReferencedBy:
14** "The world is a great place, and is worth fighting for", part of the final chapter is quoted at the end of ''Film/Se7en''. Due to the dark world of the movie, it made Creator/MorganFreeman [[KnightInSourArmor character say that]] "he agreed with the second part".
15** In ''Webcomic/InsectoNocturno'', Hemingway is quoted saying that "Spanish was the language of blasphemies, filled with the most profane of insults". This is a nod to chapter 27 of the book.
16---> ''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.''
17* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
18** Creator/HenryFonda and Creator/SterlingHayden were considered for Robert Jordan.
19** Creator/PauletteGoddard tested for Maria. Creator/VivienLeigh and Creator/SusanHayward were also considered.

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