The Prisoner of Zenda

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• In 'Salad Days', his first autobiography, 'Douglas Fairbanks Jr' said that when Raymond Massey told Sir C. Aubrey Smith, who played Col. Zapt, that he didn't understand his own part of Black Michael, Smith said 'Ray, in my time I've played every part in Zenda except Princess Flavia, and I've never understood Black Michael either'.
• Producer David O. Selznick was unsatisfied with the action scenes in the film, particularly the fencing, so he brought in director W.S. Van Dyke to reshoot them after principal photography was finished.
• Movie Goof (continuity error): Princess Flavia gives Rassendyll a red rose in the garden. As it lies on a book a little while later, it is white.
• Fay Wray screen-tested for the role of Princess Flavia. Color footage of this - apparently Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s home movies - survives in the Motion Picture Academy's archive.