Niagara - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[aaron]

Film debut of Arch Johnson.

[nina]

In the film, Rose gets a $12.50 refund for a bus ticket from Niagara Falls, Ontario to Chicago, Illinois. In 2019, that is equivalent, due to inflation, to around $120. Actually, in 2019, you can purchase a one-way bus ticket for the same trip for around $55.

[tom]

In retrospect, Marilyn Monroe's being cast as a villain was a direct contrast to her typical onscreen persona later on.

[tom]

The only movie where Marilyn Monroe played a villain.

[marc]

During filming of the shower scene, director Henry Hathaway had to keep yelling at Monroe to keep away from the shower curtain and away from the lights as she insisted on being naked (as she was under the bed sheets at the beginning of the film). To pass the censors of the time, the scene was darkened in post-production.

[bessie]

First film for which Marilyn Monroe received top billing.

[lynn]

During the location filming in Niagara Falls, the stars and crew stayed at the General Brock Hotel (the Crown Plaza Niagara Falls-Fallsview Hotel since 2008), with Monroe occupying room 801.

[mathew]

The Rainbow Cabins were not real cabins, they were movie sets built exclusively for the film at a cost of over $25,000. They were built in Queen Victoria Park directly across from the American Falls. The stone structure located by the Rainbow Cabins was torn down, but a similar one can be found in the same park at "Rambler's Rest."

[veronica]

Curiously, a trailer print for this Technicolor production was in black-and-white.

[oscar]

During filming at the "bus station", which is actually the Rainbow Tower and Bridge Complex, the tower's Rainbow Carillon can be heard. Completed in 1947, it consists of 55 bells weighing a total of over 43 tons. It was played manually four times a day until the early 2000's when an automated system was installed by the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission. Ironically, during that scene -- in which Joseph Cotten is attempting to catch his wife being unfaithful -- the carillon is playing "Be My Love".

[miriam]

The "Letterman Hospital" that Rose mentions at the beginning of the film, saying George was a patient there, was Letterman Army Hospital at The Presidio of San Francisco. Built in 1898, it cared for returning wounded soldiers from every major conflict, especially World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. It was closed in 1994, the Army base at The Presidio was decommissioned in 1995 and the buildings of the hospital were demolished in 2002. In 2005 Lucasfilm opened its headquarters on the site and named it the Letterman Digital Arts Center.

[ray]

When Ray Cutler says he is 'reading Winston Churchill' on his honeymoon, he is referring to Churchill's six-volume history called "The Second World War." The books can be seen in the back seat of his car and again later in the honeymoon cabin. They were published between 1948-1953 and were popular in both the UK and the U.S.

[manuel]

The model car that George Loomis (Joseph Cotten) is making in the film is a 1907 Maxwell. This is a nod to co-star Don Wilson, who plays the boisterous businessman J.J. Kettering. Wilson was the longtime announcer on Jack Benny's radio show. On the show, Jack Benny's car was a 1907 Maxwell. Its sputtering, coughing, wheezing engine (a vocal sound effect provided by Mel Blanc) was a well-known recurring gag on the show.