The Doctor’s real arch nemesis is the speeddial on his phone.
One morning, director Ron Howard put on the Grinch suit with full make-up and directed the entire day with the suit on. Jim Carrey said that when he first saw him in full Grinch outfit, he was angered, mistaking the director for a stunt double who looked nothing like him.
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The prosthetic make-up Jim Carrey wore took three hours to apply. Carrey felt so horribly confined and uncomfortable in the latex skin he needed counseling from a Navy SEAL who taught him torture-resistance techniques.
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The line “6:30 p.m. “Dinner with me” I can’t cancel that again.” was improvised by Jim Carrey.
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The scene where The Grinch is directing his dog, Max, before stealing Christmas, is Jim Carrey doing a parody of director Ron Howard.
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The original idea was to reunite Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby, as they had been successful in Holiday Inn. Astaire refused, as he had “retired” at the time, so the part was reworked for Donald O’Connor. O’Connor pulled out due to illness, and the part was reworked for Danny Kaye.
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The Vermont inn is the remodeled Connecticut inn set from the movie Holiday Inn which Bing Crosby also starred in singing songs written by Irving Berlin.
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For the song “Gee, I Wish I Was Back In The Army”, there is the lyric, “Jolson, Hope and Benny all for free”. This is a reference to three wartime entertainers: Al Jolson, Bob Hope and Jack Benny. The original words were “Crosby, Hope and Jolson all for free”, but the lyric was changed because with Bing Crosby in the cast the original lyric would break the fourth wall.
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The “Sisters” comedy act that Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye perform was not originally in the script. They were clowning around on the set and the director thought it was so funny that it was written in.
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Fred Astaire’s Fashion Guide | Suit Colors
In suitings, he prefers the sober colors such as dark blue, dark gray, and dark brown—”the only light color I like is light gray.” He is also partial to stripes but he wants them at least an inch or an inch-and-a-half apart. “That’s distinctly British,” he says. “We go away from or toward them in styles, but we always seem to basically revolve around their ideas.” -GQ, 1957
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Although now the film is considered a Christmas classic, at the time, according to Peter Billingsley, not many major studios were interested in a Depression-era story about a little boy wanting a BB gun for Christmas. Billingsley also stated in an interview that director Bob Clark agreed to make a horror film for the studio in order to get A Christmas Story made.
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