There's No Business Like Show Business

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• Marilyn Monroe was promised the lead role in The Seven Year Itch if she appeared in this film to boost its box-office potential. The role of Vicky was written especially for this purpose, and songs such as "Heatwave", originally intended for Ethel Merman, were assigned to her.
• During the filming of the scene where 'Donald OConnor and Marilyn Monroe were kissing, there were over 1,000 onlookers who had drifted over from other sets.
• The song "When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'" was sung by Ethel Merman and Dan Dailey in Irving Berlin's There's No Business Like Show Business and previously by Judy Garland and Fred Astaire in Irving Berlin's Easter Parade. In 1950, Judy Garland had started to film Annie Get Your Gun as Annie Oakley in the role that Ethel Merman had originated on Broadway in 1946.
• Movie Goof (miscellaneous): In the "Heatwave" number, Marilyn Monroe actually accidentally pokes her finger in a dancer's eye, something you can see on the DVD on slow motion. The dancer is seen trying to hide behind the tree with his hand over his eye, but is enough of a trouper to continue with the number. Right after Marilyn pokes the dancer in the eye she performs a twirl, pokes her head between the branches of the fake tree and gives the dancer a kiss as an apology (it's quick but definitely a peck on the cheek to make up for the eye poke).