Trivia / Darby O'Gill and the Little People

• Billing Displacement: Ever since the 2004 DVD, home video covers show Michael and Katie above the title, with Darby and King Brian on the bottom, likely to attract Sean Connery fans.
• Fake Irish: Sean Connery as Michael McBride.
• What Could Have Been: Walt Disney initially hoped to cast Barry Fitzgerald in the dual roles of Darby O'Gill and King Brian. Fitzgerald reportedly declined due to his advanced age (although his eventual replacement as Darby, Albert Sharpe, was three years older). Disney regretted the loss of Fitzgerald in the lead role, and blamed the movie's disappointing box-office performance partly on this loss.

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