Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Harvey: I bet I know a lot of things you don`t know. I know that`s not French you`re singing.
Manuel Fidello: That`s right. About ten million people know it`s Portugese.
Harvey: I bet you can`t speak French.
Manuel Fidello: Right now, I sorry I speak *English*. Manuel Fidello: I gonna get nifty suit. You know, purple colored. Oh, very nifty suit, with shoes to match and big pearl buttons. Oh, and then I get new tie with big yellow flowers. Oh, then I walk up and down Duckett Street, and I say "Hey, girls, girls. Hey, look, look. Manuel is in town."
Harvey: Girls?
Manuel Fidello: Oh sure, beautiful girls. I got maybe five, six girls in Gloucester. I tell each one I like her best. You gotta tell big lies to girls to make them happy.
Manuel Fidello: Wake up, Little Fish. Hey, wake up, wake up! Somebody think you dead, they have celebrations.
Trivia
Spencer Tracy was initially reluctant to take on the part of Manuel, mainly because he had to sing in several scenes and get his hair curled. His new curly locks provided a lot of amusement to his friends and fellow actors. Joan Crawford, for instance, referred to him as Harpo (after Harpo Marx, the curly-haired Marx Brother).
SPOILER: The Fishermen`s Memorial at the end of the film is a replica of the one in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The actual memorial can be seen at the beginning of The Perfect Storm (2000), another movie about Gloucester fishermen.
The only film where Freddie Bartholomew was allowed to play an evil character.
This was one of the final films Lionel Barrymore made before his degenerative arthritis crippled him. The following year, he was hobbling around on crutches in Frank Capra`s "You Can`t Take It with You" (1938); after that, he was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
Was the first MGM film to be shown on television, in 1955.
When Spencer Tracy received his Oscar statuette for this movie, he was surprised to find it inscribed to comic-strip hero "Dick Tracy". An embarrassed Academy replaced the statuette.
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