Evelyn Moriarty remembers Marilyn Monroe making an anonymous donation of $1,000 to a crew member on set who needed the money to cover funeral expenses for his wife.
Yves Montand called the experience terrifying because he did not know English and had to sound out his dialogue phonetically, helped by his wife Simone Signoret. However, Montand did speak English in The Wages of Fear (1953).
Milton Berle placed ads in Hollywood trade papers seeking a Best-Supporting Oscar nomination for playing himself. He wasn't far off the mark - his brief, sidesplitting cameo wherein he is paid to help the Yves Montand character develop a sense of humor is one of his more memorable screen appearances.
Marilyn Monroe disliked the script for this movie; she only signed on to fulfill her contract with 20th Century Fox.
The film has often been criticized for its 'split personality' in the way director George Cukor depicted his two stars. While Yves Montand is portrayed as the essence of class and sophistication, Marilyn Monroe's blowzy hair styles, unflattering costumes and suggestive dance movements all contain a crass vulgarity uncommon in her other films.
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