Trivia / So Young, So Bad

• The Cast Showoff: Rita Moreno as Dolores gets to show off her amazing singing voice years before starring in West Side Story.
• The Danza: Rita Moreno's middle name is actually Dolores.
• Dawson Casting: Anne Francis and Rita Moreno were approaching twenty playing teenagers. Anne Jackson was twenty-five.
• Dueling Works: With Caged, a women's prison film released the same day.
• Fake Nationality: Dr. Jason is meant to be of Polish descent. Paul Henreid was Austrian.
• Money, Dear Boy: Paul Henreid negotiated 50% of the film's gross, and later said that film made him more money than anything else he ever did.
• No Budget: The film had to be produced independently, as the makers had been blacklisted from Hollywood at the time.

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