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• Producers Barry Levinson and Mark Johnson had their names taken off the credits even though they had been instrumental in getting the film made. They settled instead for a namecheck for their production company Baltimore Pictures. This was because they felt that listing eleven producer credits for just one film was far too many.
• Robert Redford claims that he spotted the real Charles Van Doren's acting while he was watching the show during his tenure at acting school.
• Early in the film, when someone says that "There's a rumor Eisenhower died," Charles Van Doren's mother, Dorothy, quips, "How would they tell?" This is actually a quote from Dorothy Parker, the American writer and poet, which she said when she heard that former President Calvin Coolidge had died in January 1933.
• Movie Goof (continuity error): The address written on Goodwin's legal pad does not match the street address when they visit.