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• One scene called for actor Al Pacino to be surprised after opening a door. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) was filming in a nearby studio, so director Garry Marshall arranged for Kirk and Spock be on the other side of the door that Pacino opened.
  
  
• The football team on the poster behind Nick when Johnny enters the restaurant for the first time is PAOK from Thessaloniki, Greece, with a double-headed eagle as its emblem.
  
  
• 'Kathy Bates'(I) originated the role of Frankie on the stage. She campaigned to get the role in the film, but lost out to Michelle Pfeiffer.
  
  

• Playwright Terrence McNallyoriginally wrote the role of Frankie for 'Kathy Bates'(I) . Johnny was played by Kenneth Welsh in the 1987 Off-Broadway production of "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune" that starred Bates.
  
  
• In a scene at the beginning, Frankie is on a bus reading a magazine. On the front cover is Penny Marshall, the sister of director Garry Marshall.
  
  
• Frankie agrees to open her robe for 15 seconds so that Johnny can look at her nude. She actually does it for over 40 seconds.
  
  

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