Trivia: Although Lionel Jeffries and John Fraser play father and son in this film, Jeffries was only five years older than Fraser.
Trivia: Mildred Burke and Johnnie Mae Young didn't get along. Young hated how only Burke got to main event shows while Burke and her husband, Billy Wolfe, worried Young would beat her for the championship. It's been stated by Young in the documentary Lipstick and Dynamite.
Trivia: Stan tells Ollie he's never getting married again, he will just find a woman he doesn't like and buy her a house. Stan would marry three more times and divorce twice between 1937 and1953, including remarrying and re divorcing one of his ex wives.
Trivia: Will Smith won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in the film. However, his award was overshadowed by an altercation with Chris Rock earlier in the evening, which saw Smith slap Rock in the face after Rock made a joke about Smith's wife Jada Pinkett Smith (which Will initially laughed at). As a result, Smith was given a 10-year ban from the Oscars ceremony, and also lost consideration for upcoming film roles.
Trivia: Meryl Streep's role is the only performance for which Wes Craven directed an actor to an Academy Award nomination.
Trivia: Before production began, Judi Dench was still suffering from a toe injury she obtained whilst working on her previous movie. She didn't tell anyone about the injury as she didn't want to lose her role.
Trivia: Adam Driver was not allowed to drive any of the historic cars that feature in this movie due to insurance stipulations.
Trivia: Glenn Close is only twelve years older than John Hawkes, who plays her son.
Trivia: Christian Bale nearly played George W. Bush in the Oliver Stone-directed film W, but left the project because he didn't like the prosthetics he had to wear.
Trivia: Sigourney won the Golden Globe Award for best actress for this film and another Golden Globe Award for best supporting actress for "Working Girl" in the same year - the first person to have done this (won 2 awards in the same year).
Trivia: Translations for the Latin HABEAS CORPUS include "show me the body", "you have the body", "you should have the body", "produce the body", and "you shall have the body." The "body" in question refers to a person being held in detention or confinement and "show the body" refers to the judge/court being requested (petitioned) to bring the person to court to ascertain/assess the legality of the person's deprivation of liberty. No person should be deprived of liberty without "due process of law."
Trivia: In real life, Mary secretly married her second husband, William Stafford, while Anne was still Queen. Henry and Anne did not approve because Stafford had a low social rank and little money. Mary was banished from court, and her parents and uncle disowned her. Her final interaction with Anne was probably when Anne sent her a golden cup and some money, but still would not allow her at court. She was probably not present at the execution of Anne, like in this movie.
Trivia: Even though Angelina Jolie plays Colin Farrell's mother in the movie, she is only a year older than Farrell.
Trivia: Richard Farnsworth earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal as Alvin Straight. At the age of 79, Farnsworth was at the time the oldest person to be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar.
Trivia: Charles Laughton plays Edward Moulton-Barrett, the father of Elizabeth Barrett (Norma Shearer). In real life, Laughton was only three years older than Shearer.
Trivia: This was the first biographical film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Trivia: Christopher Plummer earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance as J. Paul Getty. At the age of 88, Plummer is the oldest acting Oscar nominee.
