| 1 | * ActingForTwo: Creator/JoseFerrer plays both Henri and the Comte. |
| 2 | * ChristmasRushed: The film was only finished mere hours before its premiere to get it ready for Academy Awards consideration. |
| 3 | * CreatorBacklash: When Creator/JohnHuston appeared on ''Radio/DesertIslandDiscs'' in 1973, host Roy Plomley told him that this movie was a personal favorite of his. Huston replied "I don't think it's one of my best films", adding that 1950s censorship constraints had made it impossible to tell the story of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec's life honestly. |
| 4 | * DawsonCasting: José Ferrer was forty, spending most of the movie portraying Henri at twenty-five. |
| 5 | * FakeNationality: |
| 6 | ** José Ferrer (Puerto Rican), Zsa Zsa Gabor (Hungarian) and Mary Clare, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee (British) as French characters. |
| 7 | ** King Milan IV of Serbia is played by Theodore Bikel, who is American. |
| 8 | * LoopingLines: A lot of dialogue had to be done with ADR for the scenes amid Parisian traffic, as real motorists were so annoyed at the filming that they kept honking their horns. |
| 9 | * NonSingingVoice: Zsa Zsa Gabor's singing was dubbed by Muriel Smith. |
| 10 | * RomanceOnTheSet: Producer Jack Clayton met and and later married actress Katherine Kath while making this film. |
| 11 | * ThoseTwoActors: Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing both star, naturally in one of their many famous collaborations. |
| 12 | * UnderageCasting: Claude Noiller was only 32 playing the mother of José Ferrer. |
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