Gary Cooper pulled rank and flat out refused to have his well known hairy chest shaved for the bathtub scene in the final reel.
Mentioned in the fictional novella "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (Truman Capote). Holly Golightly has been set up for a screen test for one of the nurses in the film; instead of taking the test, she goes away to New York.
Most of the injured in Dr. Wassell's care were from the U.S.S. Marblehead (CL-12). After her battle damage she steamed 16,000 miles to New York City, via Sri Lanka and South Africa for complete repairs. She spent the rest of the war in the Atlantic on convoy duty and participated in the Allied landings in the south of France. She was decommissioned in November 1945 and scrapped in 1946.
Cecil B. DeMille appears in the trailer and tells the audience how the film came to be made, after hearing Franklin D. Roosevelt on the radio.
Based on the true story of U.S. Navy physician Corydon McAlmont Wassell (1884-1958). He was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions on Java and is buried at Arlington National Cemetary.