Trivia / Naked Came the Stranger

• Life Imitates Art: The mob boss Mario Vella is the co-founder of the League to Preserve Italian-American Dignity, supposedly to combat pejorative stereotypes about Italians, which hassles newspapers and television producers who try to draw attention to the Mafia. The year after Naked Came the Stranger came out, Joseph Colombo, the boss of the Colombo crime family, created the Italian-American Civil Rights League. Among other things, the IACRL forced the United States Justice Department to stop using the word "Mafia" and The Godfather to remove the terms "Mafia" and "Cosa Nostra" from the dialogue. Colombo was shot in the head at his own rally a year after the IACRL was founded.
• Working Title: Strangers in the Valley, and later Naked Is the Stranger.
• Write What You Know: Some of the co-writers based Gillian's lovers on their own experiences. An ex-Marine from a Pennsylvania coal-mining town wrote about an ex-Marine from a Pennsylvania coal-mining town, a boxing writer wrote about a boxer, an investigative and gangland reporter wrote about a Mafia chieftain, and a writer with a reputation as the most faithful husband in journalism wrote about a man who couldn't cheat.