- Inspiration for the Work: Billy Wilder came up with the idea for this film when he saw a player run into a cameraman on the sidelines while watching a football game.
- One-Take Wonder: Jack Lemmon's wheelchair ballet, performed to Cole Porter's "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To", lasts 3-1/4 minutes and was completed in one take.
- Those Two Actors: This was the first of ten movies to feature Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as co-stars.
- What Could Have Been: Jack Lemmon originally had two other actors proposed to star with him, Frank Sinatra and Jackie Gleason, but he insisted that he do the picture with Walter Matthau.
- Walter Matthau's shout-out to The Barber of Seville is an actor signature, as he hums or sings the same thing in Hopscotch, Grumpy Old Men, and Out to Sea.
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